I'm currently finishing up my last course for my Marketing Strategy Certificate through Cornell. This particular courses stresses the importance of brand message. I've been taking this opportunity to update my Etsy shop and make sure that with the new formatting of the site, all of my information contributes to continually promoting a clear brand promise and successfully establishes my positioning in the market.
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| My shop's announcement |
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| My shop's about page |
I've included the two images above to illustrate my attempts to give similar information and communicate a clear brand message across my Etsy shop.
As small business owners and makers, we don't have huge marketing and
advertising teams to maintain this consistency for us, so it's important
to keep up with it ourselves. For many of us, we ARE our brand and it
can be a challenge to make sure that we are not just putting everything that
we love out there. Tied to this concept is the need to keep our image
consistent across all of social media. I've been using this opportunity
to do that! Little things like using the same profile picture(s) and
repeatedly using the same key words and phrases can really make all the
difference.
Below is an example from my Instagram. I use the same profile picture as my shop (I also use this one on Pinterest), which is a picture that clearly conveys what I make. The pictures that I post on Instagram further back up my brand promises, for example, showing custom items that I have made.
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| My business Instagram |
