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The name is the first conception and the most evocative and abstract representation of a brand. It is usually the first critically important decision in defining the identity that will accompany a consumer product. A successful name will bring together a set of characteristics and also be registrable so ownership, use and protection can be established. Choosing the right name is vital as it will be the first impression and representation of the brand in the marketplace. An effective name should clearly communicate what the brand stands for while also being distinctive, memorable, and where possible, inherently positive. Considerations around meaning, pronunciation, versatility, and legal registration will all factor into selecting a name that can help distinguish the product and optimally represent the brand.

Creating an instantly recognizable brand in today's saturated marketplace is a team effort requiring designers, illustrators, brand strategists, and consumer behavior researchers. The aesthetic qualities of a visual identity can help reinforce the positioning and personality of a product. Coordinated efforts between professionals in fields such as design, illustration, brand strategy, and consumer research as provided by BRANDWATCH are necessary to develop the brand identity system that cuts through the noise to reach today's discerning consumers.

Registering a trademark in Mexico is a complex operation that should be overseen by intellectual property specialists to ensure the highest possible rate of success. A trademark that is designed without good odds of acceptance can result in significant monetary and time losses for an emerging brand, forcing it to start from the beginning. Intellectual property experts can analyze all relevant factors to optimize the trademark application process and avoid wasted efforts. Their expertise helps navigate statutory procedures and avoid common pitfalls, expediting approval. A strategic, compliant trademark supported by legal counsel improves businesses' chances to protect their innovation and differentiate in the market.

 

Creating Memorable Brands for Mexican Businesses

When thinking about Mexico's most successful brands, what names come to mind? Companies like Telmex, Bimbo, Modelo or Corona are probably on your list. These companies have one thing in common: they all have strong brands that have endured for generations. A memorable brand does not happen by accident. Behind every great brand is an intentional design process that begins with understanding the essence of the business and ends with creating a unique visual identity.

This brand design process, known as branding, is fundamental to the success of any business. A strong brand allows you to stand out from the competition, generate loyalty from customers, and increase the value of your company. If you are ready to take your business to the next level, it's time to invest in an unforgettable brand.

When introducing a new product or service to the market, it is done with the idea of providing something unique, a valid option against competition in terms of quality, freshness, results, price, formula, speed, or some other characteristic.

But with so many alternatives available in the market, many times the customer or potential consumer thinks there is a lot to choose from, but few authentic options.

In this era of abundance and specialized niches, each new offer must be differentiated in reality but also in the perception of its market. Companies can be sure of the benefits their products provide but without an effective brand positioning and development strategy, their customers will not give them the opportunity to try them.

If you need to create or refresh a brand to improve persuasion and secure a market segment, we have the experience to help you create a brand that conveys the unique qualities of your service or product.

Every project has its particularities, but in general terms the brand development process, called branding, involves:

- Immersing yourself in market dynamics.

- Studying customer or consumer habits, attitudes and motivations.

- Creation, development and refinement of verbal and visual language.

- Application and extension of the brand to optimize its place in the market.

A strong brand is fundamental to the success of any company. For Mexican companies, professional branding can mean the difference between failure and success, especially in such a competitive market.

A solid brand conveys trust and inspires customer loyalty. It allows companies to stand out from the competition and charge a premium price for their products or services. Effective branding also increases a company's value and makes it more attractive to potential investors or buyers.

To build a powerful brand requires an integrated strategy that includes:

- A memorable and distinctive brand name. It should evoke the core qualities and attributes of the business.

- An iconic and cohesive logo. The logo is the visual representation of the brand and must instantly convey its essence.

- Distinctive brand colors. The right colors can influence customer emotions and associations with the brand.

- Representative slogan or phrase. A good slogan succinctly and memorably captures the brand's essence.

- Cohesive visual identity. The visual identity encompasses the visual language of the brand across all touchpoints, from the website to social media, product packaging and more. It must be consistent to reinforce the brand.

Investing in solid branding is one of the most important decisions a business can make. Strong brands generate significant returns, while weak brands limit a company's growth and potential. For Mexican businesses, professional branding is the key to success.

Why designing Mexican brands presents unique challenges?

The Importance Of Professional Branding For Businesses In Mexico

A strong brand is fundamental to the success of any company. For Mexican companies, professional branding can mean the difference between failure and success, especially in such a competitive market.

A solid brand conveys trust and inspires customer loyalty. It allows companies to stand out from the competition and charge a premium price for their products or services. Effective branding also increases a company's value and makes it more attractive to potential investors or buyers.

To build a powerful brand requires an integrated strategy that includes:

- A memorable and distinctive brand name. It should evoke the core qualities and attributes of the business.

- An iconic and cohesive logo. The logo is the visual representation of the brand and must instantly convey its essence.

- Distinctive brand colors. The right colors can influence customer emotions and associations with the brand.

- Representative slogan or phrase. A good slogan succinctly and memorably captures the brand's essence.

- Cohesive visual identity. The visual identity encompasses the visual language of the brand across all touchpoints, from the website to social media, product packaging and more. It must be consistent to reinforce the brand.

Investing in solid branding is one of the most important decisions a business can make. Strong brands generate significant returns, while weak brands limit a company's growth and potential. For Mexican businesses, professional branding is the key to success.

Why designing Mexican brands presents unique challenges?

Brand design in Mexico presents unique challenges that must be addressed from the visual identity perspective. Mexico's enormous regulatory complexity in logo design means that most brands must be registered as mixed, avoiding criteria like denomination. Due to the large amount of regulations surrounding the design of logos and brands in Mexico, companies face the challenge of creating visual identities that meet all legal requirements for registration, so they generally opt for designs that combine verbal and graphic elements to ensure legal protection, rather than being based solely on a name.

This complexity in brand design in Mexico means that the identities of a sector must be much more separated from each other and that industry codes vary more compared to other countries in the region. The significant existing regulation in the country regarding brand design causes it to be necessary to further increase the visual and conceptual distinctions between different companies within the same industry in order to clearly differentiate one corporate identity from another. Similarly, the design codes used to identify specific industries tend to present greater variations in the case of Mexico with respect to neighboring nations, in order to maximize the possibilities of registration for each brand.

Logo design in Mexico must follow guidelines for distinction and application across omnichannel platforms. A brand design approach focused on user experience and visual behavior to generate preference. When creating a corporate identity that meets Mexican legal requirements, it is essential that the logo follows principles of visual differentiation from other existing brands and that it can be consistently adapted to all communication channels and platforms where the company wishes to be present. The brand design must also focus on understanding consumer behavior and visual preferences, so that the identity generates recognition, recall and preference among the target audience.

How Do We Create Brand Identities That Stand Out And Connect With Consumers?

IDENTIFYING the brand's purpose and values

To create an effective brand identity, we first identify the core purpose and values of the business. What is its mission? What problem does its product solve? What fundamental values guide its operations? Answers to these questions will lay the foundation for designing an authentic and enduring brand.

CLEARLY DEFINING the brand positioning

We guide clients to concretely define how their brand will position itself in the market. What makes it unique? What benefits does it offer that competitors do not offer? Its positioning must resonate with its target audience and differentiate it from similar options.

DESIGNING memorable brand names

A good brand name is fundamental. It must be easy to pronounce, write, and remember. It should also evoke the key qualities and attributes of the brand. It can be based on descriptive words from its industry or create a unique new word. We seek creative solutions while maintaining simplicity.

Designing cohesive logos and visuals

The logo, typography, colors and other visual elements must work together to convey the brand positioning. It should be professional but also inspire trust or joy in the target audience. Consistency across all touchpoints, from the website to business cards, is essential to forge recognition and loyalty.

With a clear purpose, distinctive positioning, memorable name and cohesive visual identity, a powerful brand can be built that resonates with consumers. Consistency and authenticity are keys to success. Following these steps will put the business on the right track.

Brand isn’t a logo. Brand isn’t what’s in your mission statement. And brand is definitely not what your Chief Marketing Officer insists it is. Your brand is simply a promise. It’s a shortcut that everyone you engage with uses to figure out what to expect.
— Seth Godin
 
 
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What is Branding or Brand Design?

Branding is the continuous process of building a brand, whether it be for a product, service or even an individual. Consumer product brands that seek a strategic advantage invest resources into building the brand with the goal of achieving long-term competitive advantage. Such brand building depends strategically on the Chief Executive Officer/Board of Directors/General Management of a company, but is the daily responsibility of the entire organization.

A brand is an intangible yet real intellectual capital, and more than a logo, it is the expression of the long-term relationship with the consumer or user. A good brand development process is the starting point for branding, and ultimately results in categorically possessing an idea, phrase, emotion or simply a thought within the consumer's mind.

A brand helps differentiate a company from the competition. It makes a product different from all others by telling a customized story, expressing a promise to its consumer and establishing an emotional relationship that in some cases can become part of the consumer's identity. Without this crucial differentiation, competition in a market niche will focus on price, reducing profit margins across an entire category over time.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) registered over 36 million brands in 2018, making the brand design process more relevant to be robust and begin with a market analysis to form the basis of a solid brand architecture, and conclude with brilliant creative design. This intellectual and creative foundation will make subsequent steps such as marketing communication through touchpoints (packaging, website, advertising, public relations, sponsorships, promotions), employee engagement and results monitoring, effective elements of building brand value.

A solid brand sells proactively and consistently, and has the ability to influence consumer purchase behaviors in a saturated market. Strong brands facilitate purchase decisions for consumers, and allow consumer product companies to sell in "premium" categories.

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When is it advantageous to invest in brand design?

In our experience, brand identity is a crucial factor for positioning a brand with the consumer, and in many cases, an identity with strategic clarity functions as a natural compass and reference for marketing executives when making decisions about the brand's future and evolution.

Emerging Brands:

For emerging brands, the ideal time is always before operations begin. However, in practice and particularly in this segment, it does not always happen that way. Many brands have first been successful products, and in the face of success, they have postponed building a brand that turns them into a unique and identifiable product.

A successful product without identity wastes the daily opportunity to build a valuable intangible asset, risking being plagiarized by a competitor, and with a confused consumer and market, losing the value of its unique personality and attributes. Likewise, a market without recognizable brands tends to become a market where the only point of comparison and competition is price, thus creating a low-profitability market.

Some products have been content with generic names and visual identities, losing the opportunity to give the consumer an authentic message on the shelf about who they are. Without a strategic identity, the opportunity is lost to acquire meaning for the consumer and cancel the potential to acquire new consumers.

Established Products:

Some products, due to great value, have been able to establish good commercial positions, regularly within retail but without belonging to the category of Consumer Packaged Goods. These are products that we find in a supermarket, in bulk consumption: varieties of fruits and vegetables, meats, fish, seafood, bread, tortillas. Many of these companies have not invested in brand identity and have a generic identity.

Other times these products are big protagonists outside the retail space, as they are distributed exclusively in the B2B format. When these product companies decide to formalize their participation in retail, whether through innovation with sub-categories or capitalizing on their current position for geographical expansion, their weaknesses in communicating their value in retail and B2B become evident.

Traditional Brands:

Some traditional brands, by virtue of investing large sums in traditional and digital media, have achieved recognition. However, if their identity has not been reviewed and updated over time, they can be vulnerable to innovation from their competitors.

The perfect time to renew should be before losing consumers, and in most cases it is usually a difficult time to predict. Through qualitative perception analysis, the consumer perspective can be known to plan a transition or refresh of the image to re-align the brand with meaningful values and sustain or re-orient the brand positioning.

In other cases, market opportunities open up the possibility of creating sub-brands that support complementary offers, differentiated in price and attributes, segmented to the consumer.

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Logo Design

A logo is the simplest way to remember a website or brand for any company, which is why it is essential to have an eye-catching and memorable logo. Therefore, we want to show you some of the best keys so that your company is remembered and therefore increases in number of customers.

The main objective of a logo is for it to enter the minds of potential customers and be remembered. Therefore, when designing them, a previous study of the minds of those potential customers must be done so that it adapts to them and is more effective. This mainly translates into the logo having to show the values of the company.

Keys to the most effective logo design

Obvious

The first thing we must have clear when commissioning the design of our logo or brand is that it must be simple. If a logo is simple and easily represents what we want to convey, it will be much more effective.

Memorable

Along with being simple, the logo design must also be aesthetic so that it is remembered immediately and therefore associated with our company.

Perennial

If we want to build a brand in our company or create a logo from scratch, we must consider that it must be something enduring and not made for a specific promotion only. In this way, we avoid changing it at the moment it begins to impact our audience or simply that they do not even pay attention to it.

Adaptable

In the world we live in, our logo can appear on various media, so we must have a logo that can adapt to said media and forms of advertising.

Timely

If we create a logo that reflects the mission of our company, we will have a lot of ground gained already because the customer will relate it to certain values. In this way, we introduce ourselves to the world with a business card with which we can aim to create the brand we aim for.

To create the brand or logo design that has the main keys we have mentioned, a team of professionals such as BrandWatch must be relied on. Thanks to the previous study we carry out, we are going to show the most outstanding values of your company through the logo.

United with everything a logo should have, branding or creating our brand must be based on what we want to show, as we have mentioned. For this reason, when commissioned to design a logo, the first thing we do is identify the type of logo that best suits the company.

What type of logo can we find?

Within the brand and logo design service that we offer, we take into account the two types of logos we will encounter

According to its shape

Representative

This type of simple logos lacking in text are easily remembered.

Iconic

Many companies have a logo showing only the name of the company. What makes it stand out is the way it is made or the colors used.

Image brand

This type of logo combines the previous two. When the image alone does not manage to represent the company's mission, a small descriptive text is usually added to enhance the image.

Insignia

In our opinion, in addition to being one of the most charismatic and elegant, this is a very popular type of logo. It is an adaptation of the previous type that includes the text within the image itself.

According to its design

Abstract

This type of design must be looked at twice as sometimes they do not correspond to the company or we do not know what they want to represent.

Graphic

These correspond to those types of logos that with a single stroke we can immediately identify what they represent and what is sold or the values they want to convey. These are the logos we can see in almost any company.

Illustrated

When you see a more elaborate and striking logo with a drawing that catches the eye, we are facing a logo of this type.

Gradual

If you like logos with a gradient or your company has multiple representative colors, it is best to opt for a gradual logo.

Linear

Many companies choose to leave the logo without colors and make it in the simplest way possible.

Why work with BrandWatch for brand design?

BrandWatch can help design your brand professionally. We will create a unique design for your company without using predefined templates. Our team of experts will focus on faithfully representing your business or products.

By developing your brand, you will be able to position your company in a more memorable way among consumers. We seek to have your brand stand out professionally.

We work on each project with dedication, as if it were our own. If you want your company to be a leader in quality

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The Financial Value of Brands as Assets

The value of brands is undeniable, and their importance relative to other company assets continues to grow.

There are two easily discernible types of assets in a company: tangible and intangible. In mergers and acquisitions of public companies over the last 40 years we have seen how the value of tangible assets (referred to in English as net assets) of a company has been decreasing and intangibles growing in proportion.

As company acquisitions are increasingly less about tangible assets, investors and financiers have developed a couple concepts to refer to and account for intangible assets: "goodwill" and "intangible assets".

Intangible assets are not physical, but they are fully identifiable and can even be sold independently of the business as a whole. These include proprietary technology (such as software or hardware), patents, copyrights, licensing rights, and even websites.

Goodwill are also intangible assets but even more difficult to quantify: customer loyalty, brand equity, name or brand recognition, as well as the recognition and reputation of an organization.

In many recent transactions, the financial value of a brand has been valued through the excess paid by a company in relation to its tangible assets or net assets. Some recent examples are:

Ebay purchases Paypal in 2002

Net Assets $275 Million USD

Final Transaction Value $1. Billion USD

Google purchases Youtube in 2006

Net Assets $1. Billion USD

Final Transaction Value $1. Billion USD

Facebook purchases Whatsapp in 2014

Net Assets $1. Billion USD

Final Transaction Value $19 Billion USD

Due to this, systems have had to be developed to value brands, among the most used are:

Cost-based system:

This cost is based on the cost of creating the brand, or the theoretical cost to recreate the brand at a given time. This method has some significant problems.

Identifying brand development costs is a complicated task even for young brands, even more so for brands that have been in the market for over 100 years. This approach focuses on the costs of building the brand, without evaluating the value or utility those costs have produced.

It is difficult to value a brand as a series of expenses, without taking into account that a brand is only valuable for its results.

Market-based system:

Similar to how stocks, ETFs and other financially instruments are valued in financial markets based on the laws of supply and demand, a market is efficient when there are a sufficient number of buyers and sellers, and reasonable, non-excessively intrusive governmental regulation of business conduct.

The problem with using this system for a brand is that there is little public information available about the market and its transactions to facilitate a valuation. Many conglomerate companies own multiple brands, and in rare cases these brands may be sold separately as standalone entities.

The lack of an open and comparable market makes this a less than ideal valuation system.

Income-based system:

1. Through royalties.

The royalty-based valuation system values the brand referentially based on the amount of royalties the brand owner is exempt from paying a third party. By owning a brand, a company is free from paying licensing fees for use of an intangible asset. This royalty is regularly calculated as a percentage of sales over a given period.

The problem with this system is there is little market information about typical royalty rates. The limited information that exists incorporates complexity factors, as royalties also include patent, copyright and other intellectual property rights, usually as part of a broader agreement that also includes variations by geography, market sector or new territories.

It is extremely difficult to evaluate the royalty savings a company achieves by owning a brand.

2. Through economic use.

This may be the most acceptable method, which seeks to determine the economic value of a brand to its current owner based on the current use of the brand.

This system is based on calculating the future value of earnings attributable to a brand by identifying earnings attributable to brand ownership and projecting them to future value considering three factors:

  1. Historical financial performance to identify actual net earnings.

  2. Its market strength and competitive advantage versus direct competing brands, to establish security of future demand.

  3. Its legal position to demonstrate separable ownership.