While there is a long tradition of Harley Davidson fans tattooing their favorite brand’s logo, more recent popular brand tattoos include names such as Nike, Coca-Cola, and even Disney.
For years, it was believed that Harley Davidson’s popularity as a brand tattoo comes from its target market coinciding with the target market of tattoo products. However, with Disney entering the gallery of trendy tattoos, it became apparent that there is a deeper explanation for brand tattoos becoming more and more fashionable.
Strong brands create strong associations and customers use those associations as a way to express their personality. Therefore, whether or not you want your target audience to enter the next tattoo shop asking to permanently decorate their body with your company’s or product’s logo is a matter of choice. Whether or not you want your target audience to feel as if your brand is part of their personality is not.
We see ourselves as tattoo artists but instead of drawing tattoos with needles and brushes, we employ a large array of marketing tools that allow us to help you leave a mark in your audience’s heart by bridging the gap between your current communication and the strong brand you want to built for your company, products, and/or services.
Having an adequate marketing strategy plays a crucial role in addressing this gap efficiently and effectively.
A good marketing strategy will identify your customers’ needs and long term expectations and address them in a proactive manner that allows you either to operate on a niche market where there are no competitors addressing the same needs or to gain a competitive advantage that will help you increase your market share.
Marketing plans are extremely important for both organizing the internal activity of an organization and for representing it in front of external representatives such as investors. Marketing plans can facilitate the understanding of a company’s approach of the market, customers, and competitors. They can therefore motivate employees to perform better or encourage venture capitalist to contribute to provide financial support to a company with a clear sense of direction for growth. While there are different ways in which marketing plans can positively impact the overall performance of an organization, there is no doubt that when designed and implemented correctly, they always have a positive that impact.
The ancient Greek aphorism ‘Know thyself ‘ applies not only to human beings but also to companies. A proof for this comes from the fact that marketing plans usually start to be prepared before the company or the product they are prepared for comes to existence.
Marketing plans’ role is decisive in the beginning since it is always better to assess the market and its needs before investing too much in terms of efforts and resources.
If a company will ever end up with the conclusion that its product or service will not be a success, it is always preferable to get to that finding earlier than later in the process. Furthermore, while investors are happy to support an enthusiastic entrepreneur and its innovative ideas, not being able to transpose the enthusiasm into a well-structured, realistic plan, can represent the cut back that will make the difference between a successful or a failed negotiation.
The ‘know thyself’ principle is also reflected in the fact that companies possessing good knowledge about the strengths they posses and the opportunities existent on the market, can adopt a proactive strategy that allows them to become leaders of the market, to become the exclusive providers for a niche market, or at least to increase their profitability.