How To Upgrade Your Brands Perceived Worth

May 1, 2020

Perception is often everything. It can convince our customers to make purchasing decisions, or for them to even promote our services over social media if they feel they are being respected enough to do so. Of course, we can never expect perception to work well for long when it’s substanceless, but there’s no harm in trying to upgrade your promotional ability in the best way.

After all, ask any marketing copywriter how to sell something, and they’ll tell you exactly how powerful language is to make a relatively standard product seem like something you need right now, something that can resolve your problems. As long as you aren’t being deceptive almost anything goes, but it’s not just through the carefully-calibrated use of words that we can achieve this.

So, how can you upgrade your brand’s perceived worth? For instance, consider how Apple’s product packaging is core to the experience, despite having almost nothing to do with how the life cycle of that phone will be experienced. With that in mind, we’d also recommend you care for some of the following tips:

Lighting

Lighting can make a massive different regarding how certain business elements are displayed to customers. For instance, a showroom will often use attractive lighting to bring out the products in the best possible manner. This increases how valuable they look. For instance, with a Lepro LED Panel light, you will be able to more easily help your business meeting rooms, showrooms, intro foyers, or large warehouses used for retail purposes to seem bright, inviting and worthwhile. That in itself is worth the investment, as you’ll gain an impression hard to achieve otherwise.

Website Layouts

We can often tell when a company has spent worthwhile time on its website and has also considered it from the viewer’s perspective. Even large companies can get this wrong. For instance, while Amazon is the biggest retailer, the website is often so full of information and busy that it can be somewhat hard to navigate upon first introduction, and even then there are many, many features that may elude you unless you take a deep tour around said environment. With investment in a clear, intuitive web UI, you can upgrade your brands perceived worth, sometimes even tenfold.

Great Support

It’s not uncommon for companies to become known for how great their support is. In fact, customers are more likely to come back and shop with you again if they know your support is worthwhile and that they can reach you should they need to. It also shows that you’re willing to properly invest in your customer experience rather than considering the relationship over and done with the moment they receive their item.

With great support staff training, worthwhile call centres, live chat and email options in this difficult time, and an active and responsive group of social media pages, you’re sure to be on the right track for the best impressions possible.

With this advice, you’re sure to upgrade your brand’s perceived worth in the best possible way.

Mark Asquith

That British podcast guy, Mark is co-founder of Captivate.fm, the world's only growth-oriented podcast host. A Harvard, TEDx, Podcast Movement and Podfest speaker (amongst many more!), he's a wildly approachable Brit and Star Wars/DC Comics geek.

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