{"id":15463,"date":"2018-12-28T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directiveconsulting.com\/uk\/?p=15463"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:12:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:12:48","slug":"the-importance-of-branding-and-positioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directiveconsulting.com\/uk\/blog\/the-importance-of-branding-and-positioning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Branding and Positioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"The Importance of Branding and Positioning\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cLBGOzkeYrg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you&#8217;ve been following along with our videos, you probably noticed we had re-branded recently. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, I want to discuss the importance of branding and positioning. 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You\u2019ll want to be prepared to plead your case to your executive team regarding the importance of branding. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How are people discovering or interacting with you?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Importance of Branding in Search<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moving on, one of the optimum ways to understand the health of your brand is by just putting in your company name into Google. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For us, it would be \u201cDirective *space* Consulting.\u201d Recently, we have transferred over to the name, Directive, but we haven&#8217;t perfectly owned that word yet. By putting in the word \u201cdirective,\u201d a\u00a0space, and then \u201cconsulting,\u201d we find various search results. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To start, we start seeing third-party review sites. What are our clutch.co reviews? What are our Glassdoor reviews? What is showing up when someone&#8217;s researching us, and they&#8217;re either looking to work at Directive, or as a client with us. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What we have to ask ourselves is what is the brand positioning? At the end of the day, who cares if you rank number one for a term, or if you&#8217;re driving traffic from your paid campaigns if people aren&#8217;t enjoying what they discover? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understand the importance of branding by the success of SEO, PPC, and content. Check what people are searching for and what they\u2019re saying about our brand. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Communicating Value Proposition<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next thing to review is how you are communicating your value proposition to people who land on your site. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check in on the following: <\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you&#8217;re a software company and have product shots of your software, step back. Are they intriguing? Does it look like your product should cost a lot of money? Are your<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0aesthetics pleasing? Does your color scheme make sense? Is your padding right on each page? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check that your words include strong calls-to-action and that your copy is clear. Instead of saying \u201clearn more\u201d, would it be better to say \u201cstart today?\u201d Does your copy drive your viewers to do something? <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As search marketers, we help send traffic to websites. But what really matters is how that traffic turns into opportunities, deals, and revenue. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most underrated and affordable investments we can make is ensuring our brand represents the quality of our company and our work. If people see a janky brand, but we have great work, how would they assume that or know that, right? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your branding is off, your audience will not fill out the form you want them to because you didn\u2019t grab their attention in the right way. Is your form for someone to get a demo or schedule a proposal 20 questions long? 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