Everything in branding starts and ends with your audience. Who are they? Where do they live? What do they drive? What do they read? What do they do? How do they feel? And what do they want? Your customer persona will guide everything from product development to your brand voice to even the social media channels you choose. In this episode, I chat about what a customer persona is, how to create one (with step-by-step instructions), plus I outline how I created the customer persona for my own brand, Now in Rio Swim. Follow me on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/yvonneivanescu/" rel="noopener">https://www.instagram.com/yvonneivanescu/</a> Visit my website: <a href="https://yvonneivanescu.com/" rel="noopener">https://yvonneivanescu.com/</a>

08: Brand Chemistry & Authenticity: Attracting the Right Clients with Laura Beauparlant

What is branding? Does my business need to have a brand? Isn’t branding just a logo and a website? What is more important marketing or branding? And the biggest question of all, how do I even start building a brand? When host, Yvonne Ivanescu, decided to create her brand, Now in Rio, an ethical swimwear label, she ended up asking herself the same questions, and wanted to find the answers. The Branding Lab podcast is a series of honest, informative, and open conversations with industry leaders, designers, and strategists who create and design the brands we love and interact with every day. Each episode will provide advice on how to brand your business from finding your values, purpose, and vision to strategies for engaging with your audience through effective marketing, understanding your brand story, written and visual communications, and so much more. Tune in as we explore what it takes to build a truly strategic, heartfelt brand.