SEMIOTICS FOR BRAND AND ITS COMMUNICATION

 

Brand communication is a way of positioning your brand image in the psyche of your consumers. Brand communicationcan also becategorized as a positioning strategy, brand strategy, or a brand positioning statement by understanding the importance of brand semiotics. The thought is to distinguish and create "own" marketing niche for a brand, product, or service utilizing different positioning strategies that includes pricing, promotions, distribution, packaging, and competition. Businesses need to understand the importance of brand as symbols to make an exceptional impression in the customer's mind so that they associate it to something specific and desirable that is different from rest of the market.

Semiotics is a powerful asset when utilized in commercial frameworks as it serves to recognize patterns and conventions in culture without essentially waiting for the customers to express their ideas and tastes. By seeing how the implications are being made in explicit settings, there will be certain difference in developing the patterns and areas of opportunities for your brand, its communication strategy and its product placement in the market.

How can brands benefit from semiotics?

Each brand lives in a more extensive setting: it is encircled by other brands in the equivalent category, other categories in the market, communication discourse and local forms of expressions, and from a larger perspective also by the worldwide communication discourse, its globalized forms of expression and qualities the worldwide culture promotes. This is the reason to genuinely comprehend the implications of your image and its consumer perception; we need to examine the brand in same setting.

A semiotic analysis interprets the implications (cues) that resonate with your audience. With that information, you can consolidate the decoded elements into your brand and throughout your marketing correspondences.

A semiotic analysis can be an important for the agenda when building up another ad campaign or publishing a core content asset. You can run the analysis and interpretation yourself or with your marketing group.

 

Brand as a symbol

Brand symbol (informally called "logos") are visual attributes of a brand narrative. They address the brand's character and add to its recognition rate. The character of a brand is controlled by its content (brand fundamental beliefs) and its style (brand style), which communicates brand codes. The brand symbol is essential for the brand stylistics and its relationship with the audience for it focuses on an emotional worth.

Symbols are simpler to recollect than mere written text. Therefore, it’s an important element for brand communication and its positioning. Cult brands have solid logos that show and propagate the brand narrative.

 

Brand Semiotics and Digital Marketing

With the rise in digital marketing and the application of semiotics, the upcoming and prevailing businesses find these online channels for quicker and effective brand communication.  Brand semiotics on digital platforms helps to build and recognise a brand position because it’s faster, more focussed, practical and dynamic than traditional marketing.So, what are the elements of brand building and communication through digital marketing?

1.       Right website experience: Creating a responsive website for a good visitor experience is the base for online business. Whether you update your social media profiles or run some ads, you should always redirect your customers back to the website where they can explore about your blogs, products and services.

2.       Boosting SEO: Search Engine Optimisation is the best tool to organically increase your traffic and create a stronger presence in online space.  It directly targets your audience which helps you to make your brand communication reach them. It improves your Google ranking and helps the customers to recognise your brand distinctiveness.

3.       Personalisation: Your connect and communication withthe audience should be personalized.For that you need to understand the process of brand differentiation to enhance your brand positions. By focussing and working upon their tastes and preferences, you can bring a personal touch to your brand on digital media. One way is to follow the technique of Digital Brand Asset Management where you curate different asset groups for different audiences.

4.       Social Media Marketing: To network and grow audience online, social media marketing can help you to drive more traffic to your online business. It allows you to build relationships with your audience and build a two-way communication path. This will further help you to understand your audience and their choices better.

 

Conclusion

The application of brand semiotics can help in improving brand messaging, communicate desired meanings, and influence the decisions of intended customer group. Its conspicuous placement directly on the product triggers an enthusiastic response. Theproducts / services purchases are driven by subconscious perceptions and emotions. This brings us to a conclusion that a customerdoesn’tbuy products, he / she buys success, status, a lifestyle.

 

 

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