As a start-up focused on growth - and with the challenges of scale it brings - MeasureMatch understands the benefits a clearly communicable brand proposition brings. In the first of our guest blogs, we have invited Friday O’Flaherty, Co-Founder of Running With Scissors, to explain just why that’s so.
Running With Scissors is a creative agency that mixes innovation with advertising to come up with new ways for our clients to engage with their customers and currently partners with MeasureMatch to help develop and deliver our brand story.
The two second brand
Have I lost you yet?
According to Facebook people spend 1.7 seconds with a piece of content on mobile and 2.5 seconds on desktop.
With such a fast pace of content consumption how can start-ups build their brand?
Bold and simple
It’s tempting to want to fit in but if you’ve started something new it’s more important to stand out. Start with a brand identity (logo, colours etc. that make up the visual representation of the business) that is striking, clear and simple to apply.
If no one notices you it doesn’t matter what you say.
For startups to large enterprises, MeasureMatch is the marketplace platform connecting business leaders with amazing consulting and professional services partners.
Bite sized
In 1956 a cognitive psychologist at Princeton University name George Miller determined that on average people can hold 7 objects in their short term memory. Keep your communication simple and to the point. Don’t tell people everything all at once. Tell them one thing at a time.
Saying too much is the same as saying nothing at all.
Repeat yourself, endlessly
Just do it’ isn’t well known because it’s a great line. It has been repeated so often you can’t forget it. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try different things or change when things aren’t working. Just make sure you give enough people a chance to digest your messages so you know why you’re changing.
No matter how many times you say something, there will always be someone who hasn’t heard you. So say it again for them.
If you made it this far you’re seriously breaking the law of averages for content consumption.
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