Branding

Establishing your brand in a new market or country requires special skills. After all, there is a requirement to engage fans and communities surrounding the solution but managing the crowd towards a long term goal needs a crisp brand strategy.

Here are a couple of tips to get you started:

  1. Remember, the customer is King. It is of course important that your app is fun to use, but it should also be of utility value to the customer. Your customer is the key here and nothing else is more important than him/her.
  2. You need to analyze the users' needs and motives for using the app and then make a marketing and branding plan accordingly.
  3. Take into consideration the strengths and weaknesses of all the mobile platforms you are creating the app for. Each mobile platform behaves differently, so plan your app functionality accordingly.
  4. Test your app thoroughly before submitting it to an app store. An app that crashes or freezes frequently can spell disaster for its own brand image.
  5. Any mobile application can be effective in the market only and only if it offers something unique to the customer. In these days of competition, the customer can easily get what he/she is looking for online. In such a case scenario, your app brand can survive only if it can engage the user, while also being usable and consistent with the promises your company makes about it.
  6. Once the previous step is done, you will have to set media and other marketing support plans in motion. Getting an app into the market without giving it enough marketing support is a sure-fire way to get it bombed, so marketing is an essential component of branding your mobile app.
  7. Make your app easily referable to your users' friends. This way, your app stays in people's focus a lot longer than usual and also helps get your app higher ratings. The higher the positive rating, the more popularity and attention it will win in the market.
  8. Providing frequent updates for your app goes a long way to help with mobile app branding, as keeps it fresh in the eyes of the consumer. So keep adding data and functionalities to it, as and when possible.