For any business, branding your company is a vital component of establishing a strong presence in your market and setting your product ahead of your competitors. Effective branding strategies appeal to customers, making their connection to your product an emotional one, rather just one based on intrigue or need.
In order to do this effectively, here are three questions every business should ask themselves when branding their company:

1. What makes your brand unique?
   One of the first branding tips that experts offer is to define what makes your brand different. How does your product differ from the rest and what can it offer your customers that your competitors cannot? For example, if your brand and product boasts an ability to change the world and to bring people together, incorporate these ideas into your tagline, so they are on the forefront of customers’ minds when they encounter your brand.
2. What does your audience want to see?
   Another vital aspect of branding your company is creating a unique logo and label design that speaks to both the tenets of your brand and to what your audience wants to see. Along with this, consider your web design and user experience. If your website easily readable and navigable? Does it speak to your brand and communicate everything you would like it to for your customers? These questions should be answered with a ‘yes’ if you want to effectively captivate your audience.
3. Does your brand have an online presence?
   Going beyond mere website design and user experience, it is also important for your brand to have a marked social media presence on all social media platforms. These should be updated regularly with interesting and meaningful content that communicates what your brand is all about and speaks to its personality. In addition to this, your brand should have a strong inbound marketing strategy that includes SEO and analytic strategies. While things like SEO don’t yield immediate results, they ultimately help increase brand visibility and help in branding your company as meaningful enough to rank on Google searches.