- Determine your target audience. The structure for building your brand is to determine the target audience you’ll be focusing on. For example, early adaptors or college students or stay at home mothers.
- Choose your focus. This is your personality and your tone.
- Pick a business name that fits you and make it your own.
- Write a slogan that describes what your company means.
- Build your look by choosing a color and font that people can recognize you by.
- Design a logo that embodies your brand.
- Apply your branding across your business and evolve it as you continue to grow.

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What is the Difference Between Serif and Sans-Serif Typefaces?
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What is Branding?
Branding is all of the ways you establish an image of your company in your customers’ eyes and minds. It’s your “what”, your “how”, and your “why”. Your description of what you offer, the colors associated with your business, your visual identity, your website, your advertising, your collateral and your social media presence—these are all…