1. Design for the future.

You want your business to grow and go the distance. Your branding and design needs to have legs to do this. Invest early in design that illustrates how you want your company to look and be perceived in 10 years time. You will avoid trends, inspire momentum to fulfil your brand promise and save on redesigns!

2. Get the concept right.

Ask your designer to rationalise their thinking. How will their design effectively articulate your business to consumers? If you love their strategy your customers probably will too. Get the thinking right before tweaking how it looks!

3. Design only what you need.

Even the most beautifully designed items can be redundant if they lack purpose. Focus on what your business really needs. Less is more. Work with your designer to find the most appropriate design solutions. The easiest way to waste time and money is investing in things you don’t really need.

4. Good quality production is every bit as important as good quality design.

Your customers/clients are constantly forming opinions about your brand and your business and these opinions are most likely to be formed around the touch points that you create. Good design can be let down by poor quality printing, cheap papers, shoddy production and low cost manufacturing. Your designer should help you find the best vendor and oversee the production process.

5. Consistent design speaks louder.

Once you have a design strategy that works… stick with it. The surest way to lessen your branding effectiveness is to dilute it. Brands with multiple personalities appear haphazard, unstable and lack self-confidence which in turn will not inspire consumer confidence.

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