The concept of brand awareness may seem vague and unclear to brand owners and marketers who seek to measure success through numbers. However, the inability to quantify it does not mean it’s not important; quite the opposite. Brand awareness is crucial for business success and marketing campaigns. In this article, we’ll provide you with a simple definition of brand awareness and some golden tips to boost it among your audience.
What is Brand Awareness?
Brand awareness is a broad term that describes the extent to which consumers are familiar with a brand or its products and associate them with the products or services it offers. Simply put, brand awareness is a measure of how recognizable a brand is to its target audience.
The Importance of Boosting Brand Awareness
Boosting brand awareness fosters trust. In an era where everyone relies on research before making purchases and seeks opinions from others, building trust between you and your audience requires elevating brand awareness by giving it personality and interacting with the audience as humans interact in any human relationship.
Similarly, brand awareness creates an associative bond between a specific product and a specific brand. No need here for many examples; just mentioning the product name will likely trigger the most prominent brand producing it. Do you enjoy instant noodles? Or soft drinks? What about the trend of electric cars? Without a doubt, one of the following names lit up in your mind: Indomie, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Tesla… or even Elon Musk. Many brands reach out to the audience through a person to add more human touch, enhance communication, and ultimately boost awareness.
Strategies for Boosting Brand Awareness:
While there’s no quick fix for increasing brand awareness, here are some ways to help your brand excel and succeed.
1. Enhancing Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
It’s essential to know that the majority of internet users only click on the first few results in search engines. According to Search Engine Watch, the first page results in Google’s search results receive 33% of visits, while the second page results only receive 18%. That’s why you should prioritize search engine optimization when working on building brand awareness.
2. Smart Social Media Marketing
With the proliferation of social media platforms, you may feel overwhelmed trying to post on all of them. Here, you need to conduct research to identify the platforms your target audience uses, and consistently publish content that focuses more on providing value or entertainment rather than directly marketing your products or services.
Read more: What is Smart Marketing, and what are its benefits and objectives?
3. Hosting Contests on Social Media Platforms
Launch a contest on social media, ask your followers to submit a photo or video, and specify that the winning entry will be determined by the highest number of likes. This way, contestants will share the link with their family and friends to gather votes, gradually building awareness of your brand.
4. Event Sponsorship
Have you recently attended an event, exhibition, or music concert? Often, these events are sponsored by a brand. Take a look at the souvenir you brought from the event (a bag, a watch, a shirt, etc.), and you’ll likely find at least one brand name on it.
Event sponsorship is a guaranteed way to showcase your brand to hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people, many of whom are part of your target audience. When you sponsor an event, your brand logo will be everywhere; from water bottles to banners.
5. Storytelling
Storytelling is an incredibly powerful marketing tool! Whether you’re promoting products or branding, it gives your audience a relatable element to connect with you. Crafting a story around your brand adds a human touch and depth, indirectly marketing your products or services.
The story can be about anything as long as it’s authentic. You can tell the story of how your company was founded, where the idea came from, or the story behind your most successful product. The key is that people love stories.
How do you measure brand awareness?
Surprise! While we mentioned at the beginning of the article that brand awareness is not quantifiable, we were referring to the traditional commercial sense. However, there are still approximate methods to measure brand awareness and discover strengths and weaknesses in your strategies.
Social Media Statistics
You can gather a lot of statistics from social media, such as follower engagement, comments, and likes. These metrics reflect the number of people who are aware of your brand and interact with the content you provide.
Direct Website Traffic
It’s the result of users intentionally visiting your website. The traffic numbers for your site will tell you how effective your marketing activities are at attracting people to seek you out.
Many people discover brands through social media, advertisements, or by searching for keywords related to the products or services they offer. When they choose to visit your website, it means they are already familiar with your brand.
Simply owning a brand is not enough; it’s important to continually strengthen its connection in the minds of your target audience. The more familiar people are with something, the more they trust and are drawn to it. The more aware your target audience is of your brand, the more successful your business will be.
At UFUK, we assist you in building your brand and developing a comprehensive marketing plan that includes market research, audience analysis, and competitor analysis. We design professional marketing content for each platform individually and manage publishing operations. All you need to do is get in touch with UFUQ Media & Digital Marketing Agency to start a new success story!