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Creating A Strong Brand Personality on Twitter

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Humanisng a Brand

Humanising a brand is a way of endearing people to your company. It’s easier said than done but worth it. Building a brand personality takes effort and finding one that suits your overall company message requires careful consideration.

Brand personality isn’t just what you say it’s about your style and how you present yourself to the world. How you interact should reflect what your brand values. If you haven’t properly considered what your brand’s voice is, then read on.

Creating An Identity

If you could describe your business in half a dozen words, what would they be? Reliable? Creative? Relaxed? Quirky? Serious? Helpful? This will help to develop your tone of voice and how you communicate. A consistent tone of voice will help your customers to get an idea of the of culture of your business. Your tone of voice is just as important as any other part of the branding process.

What’s The Tone Of Your Voice?

The style of your company will help shape the brand tone voice. Is it going to be serious and to the point? Or will you be using fun and colourful language to sell your product?

There are very few occasions when a serious tone is required, but this will depend upon the industry. There will always be an opportunity for personality and fun in your Twitter interactions. One great example of this is by @KiaUK. Dealing with a product like cars, you could be easily forgiven for thinking they would just focus on what they’re selling, instead, as a tweeting car the brand has an opportunity to be playfully provocative.

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How Do You Communicate

How you communicate with your audience is the key to building up a strong relationship. Depending on the above, your replies and tweets will fit in with the tone you’ve developed so you could give either serious replies, witty responses or a balance between the two.

Foursquare: Reserved for the Mayor

Lately, it seems that Foursquare’s popularity has somewhat decreased. This could be due to the lack of check-in ‘rewards’ and Facebook users who opt for the convenience of check-ins via the site.

One American business that’s been a bit more creative with its Foursquare incentives, is Talia’s Tuscan Table in Florida. The restaurant offers its customers a table reservation and permanent car parking space to whoever is Mayor. Not a bad perk!

I’m sure a lot of brands and businesses currently on Foursquare could be a bit more original and entice new and existing Foursquare users with a great incentive like the one mentioned above.

What would you offer if it was your business….?

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5934198/this-is-the-best-foursquare-perk-to-date

Facebook for brand pages is changing

As you probably know Facebook for brand pages is changing. On the 30th March 2012 Facebook brands pages will be switched over to the Timeline format whether they like it or not. This creates an immediate problem for brands that haven’t got their pages in order. For those that have, it’s an opportunity to create a better looking page than ever before by using an impressive cover photo and filling timelines with interesting content like company history, if of course, the company history is interesting.

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Another implication of the new Facebook Timeline format for brands is that the traditional landing page, where brands often use a ‘like-gate’ and clumsily bribe potential fans for ‘exclusive competitions/offers/etc’, will soon be a thing of the past. This will mean that businesses will now have to think of more innovative ways to create engagement and encourage new fans to ‘like’. This is all very good, but we think the most significant issue facing brands on Facebook right now is that the free party will soon be over. With Facebook, valued at $100bn (IPO) according to Mashable, it is trying to bolster it’s advertising options.

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