We sometimes sometimes under-utilize brand in direct marketing. Offer, lists and creative come first. But brand can be a powerful tool to ensuring orders and retention.

By implementing brand messaging, colors, fonts and iconography, the audience makes an immediate association with brand and the campaign benefits from marketing that has already been established.

4 Ways to Apply Established Brand to Benefit Direct Response Campaigns:

1. Color Palette: A brand’s established color pallette is is the most obvious visual indicator of a specific brand.
2. Iconography: Symbols, images, shapes, photographic style etc. create s brand association.
3. Visual Style: Utilize existing visual brand style to create a connection with the prospect. Examples: Apple’s use of white space, Wired magazine’s early use of fluorescent colors.
4. Messaging: Selectively use familiar wording and messaging to make a connection.
5. Fonts: Incorporating brand fonts will further add to the association of the existing brand in the mind of the prospect. Brand fonts make a connection, the same as logos, graphics, images and language.

All that said, don’t throw out direct marketing principles and techniques. Remember our goal is to get orders, but our skill should be to elegantly execute marketing that reaches multiple goals and directives.

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Dwight Ingram | Creative Director | IngramCS