Just as on your website and print materials need to be on brand, your social media accounts need to project a strong visual brand identity as well.
Here are five areas to pay attention to when considering the branding of your social media accounts.
1. Choosing an account name
Get off on the right foot by making sure that all of your social media platforms use the same name or a reasonable variation. It can be confusing for customers if they find you on Instagram with one name but then search on Twitter and can’t find you because you have a different name there.
2. Customizing your social media
Logo: Your logo or a variation of it can be used as your profile image. Here we see that drinks company Kimino uses their logo as their profile image.
Color palette: Your goal is to make your brand recognizable simply by your color palette. Kimino does this by maintaining a lot of white space to keep it clean.
Bio and boilerplate: While there is room for variation due to word count or functionality of each platform, your bio should be essentially the same across all social media platforms.
3. Aesthetic
What you choose to post should to follow a consistent aesthetic. The same colors and fonts of your brand should be woven through whatever you post on social media. The goal is that over time your customer will be able to recognize your posts, without even seeing your logo or handle.
Tip: Create graphic templates in Canva, Illustrator, or Photoshop so that the same types of posts have a consistent look.
4. Voice/tone
The tone in which you write your social media captions and posts is also important. The tone can be professional, casual, cheeky, educational, trendy, etc. Whatever voice you choose, it’s important to speak like a human being. Writing too formally can be a turn-off for many followers.
If you have several persons creating content for your social media, you should give special consideration to the tone. For instance, are they “clients” or “customers”, “team members” or “employees”? Determining this terminology in advance will keep your writing voice consistent.
Along with that, make sure that your tone is not one-sided. Rather than solely promoting your product or service, stay open and conversational in your writing. Encourage feedback from your audience by asking questions and responding to their answers.
5. Images
Whether you are using stock photos or originals, the photographs you choose should still represent your brand. They should be in the same color palette and reflect the mood of your brand.
Again Kimino does a great job with this. Their colors cheerful, poetic, and the image style has the look of vintage film.
Keeping your branding consistent across all of your social media platforms– as well as within each platform– will maintain a professional and inviting aesthetic which will draw customers to you.
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