Kia

Creating A Strong Brand Personality on Twitter

20130501-140613.jpg

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.

20130501-140656.jpg

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.

Kia encourages customers to ‘Get ready for winter!’

This month, bullet has completed a winter dealer marketing campaign encouraging Kia’s customers to ‘Get ready for Winter’.

Marketing support kits have been delivered into Kia’s network of dealerships, with collateral promoting a number of after sales areas:

Give your tyres the thumbs up this winter – 3D tyre displays encourage customers to check they have enough tread for safe winter driving. We have also supplied dealers with credit card sized tread depth checkers – customers insert the corner indicator into their tyre tread to check their tyre’s safety

Free winter health check – a variety of materials including posters, strut cards and direct mail encourage Kia customers to come in for their FREE winter health check. When they do, they can also collect their free Kia branded travel mug (whilst stocks last).

Make sure you have this winter’s must have accessories – from boot liners to mud guards and car mats, Kia have everything you need to protect your car this winter.

Make sure you stop when you’re supposed to – Don’t leave it too late to get your brakes checked. A Kia trained technician will check for wear and tear and replace if necessary.

Bullet have delivered kits containing generic marketing materials for the above items, but Kia dealers can also log onto the dealer marketing extranet where they can personalise their own direct mail pieces with their dealership’s own contact details.

For more information on Kia Aftersales, visit www.kia.co.uk/owners/aftersales

KIA: A Supporting Partner of Red Nose Day 2011

RND 2011 was the most successful ever raising over £74million on the night alone. This was the 4th Red Nose Day Bullet has been involved with. This year we secured a great partnership between Kia and Comic Relief that saw Kia becoming a supporting partner of RND for the second time.

Kia Motors UK was the first ever automotive partner that Comic Relief worked with and remained its only automotive partner for the Red Nose Day 2011 campaign. Back in 2009, KIA raised more than £100,000 for comic relief and have now gone on to smash their previous record by raising a whopping £180,653.64!

Participating Kia dealers got involved in a range of fundraising activities, including a competition to guess how many Red Noses it takes to fill a Kia Venga, a charity car wash, and a ‘Best Dressed Showroom Window’ challenge. Twenty eight dealerships also took part in a ‘Pimp My Part-Ex’ where a number of cars were sold under the hammer, in conjunction with British Car Auctions (BCA). The car auction alone managed to raise £29,625.

For more information visit http://www.rednoseday.com/about/partners/kia