How Style is Applied to your Brand: Collateral
Lesson 29 from: Finding, Defining, and Marketing Your Photographic StyleJulia Kelleher
How Style is Applied to your Brand: Collateral
Lesson 29 from: Finding, Defining, and Marketing Your Photographic StyleJulia Kelleher
Lesson Info
29. How Style is Applied to your Brand: Collateral
Lessons
Class Introduction
42:05 2What is Style?
24:14 3Where does Style Come From?
11:14 4The Style Cycle: Overview
19:13 5The Style Cycle: Experimentation
10:52 6The Style Cycle: Discovery
07:17 7The Style Cycle: Realization
05:26 8The Style Cycle: Define
06:47The Style Cycle: Refine
05:14 10The Style Cycle: Q & A
16:03 11Style Cycle–Discovery: 4 Step Find it Formula: Search
07:45 12Style Cycle–Discovery: 4 Step Find it Formula: Choose
08:19 13Style Cycle–Discovery: 4 Step Find it Formula: Analyze
35:28 14Style Cycle–Discovery: 4 Step Find it Formula: Create
27:59 15Style Cycle–Realization Case Studies
33:35 16Style Cycle–Define Case Studies
20:43 17Style Cycle–Refine Case Studies
25:03 18Family Style Shoot #1
38:36 19Family Style Shoot #2
27:20 20SKYPE INTERVIEW: Lindsay Adler
29:03 21SKYPE INTERVIEW: Allison Tyler Jones
24:41 22SKYPE INTERVIEW: Brian Callaway from Callaway/Gable
15:07 23Student Hot Seat: Lori Conklin
23:49 24Student Hot Seat: Allison Turcotte
22:09 25Student Hot Seat: Amy Henderson
33:56 26What is Brand?
22:31 27How Style is Applied to your Brand: Image Style
03:47 28How Style is Applied to your Brand: Logo
10:21 29How Style is Applied to your Brand: Collateral
05:16 30How Style is Applied to your Brand: Studio Look
07:05 31How Style is Applied to your Brand: Product Line
30:30Lesson Info
How Style is Applied to your Brand: Collateral
Collateral, this is a big one. Keep it with your words. My collateral, obviously we have collateral for lots of different things in the studio. I just brought a couple of pieces with me. But it all has the same feeling. Airy, clean, organic, serene, hope, authentic, you still get those feelings every time you look at my collateral. It all looks like it's come from the same company, even this is our Bijou Baby line, so the baby plan. This is our little welcome card when people come to the studio, we welcome them with a hand-signed card by all of us at the studio. And we mail it to them as snail mail. So that's when they book, this is the first thing they get in the mail from us. And it comes in a craft envelope, you know what I'm talking about, the brown craft envelope. And then we hand write their name on the front in very pretty handwriting. And put a love stamp on it, the stamp is just as important as the card. We have a thank you card at the very end of the process, still luxurious,...
and it just says thank you on the front, opens up and it says, we appreciate you. And we write a handwritten note on the inside and send that to them about three to four weeks after they've seen product delivery, so not two days after, but like, four weeks after. We want the time to go by because we want them to know we were still thinking about them and not just this obligatory systemized thing we do, two days after they get their product. We want it to seem like, no, we were thinking about you and we wanna make sure everything's cool and that you don't need any help with printing your images. And we loved having you and we're thinking about you, we miss you. So all of these things send branding messages. We also, like our portrait-care card and digital file release card, all this stuff, you can see it all has the same feeling. So it can look different but still have the same feeling. Your collateral is so critical to what you do and it can be digital or analog collateral. This is our partnership kit that we give to vendors that we wanna partner with. So when I'm trying to pitch a display or a trade partnership or a gift card partnership with a baby store, whatever it may be, I meet with the owner, give them this kit, tell them how it benefits them, how it benefits us, tit for tat, some people get it and wanna partner with you, some people, small businesses are idiots and they have no idea and they think you're trying to steal their business and you just walk away and they're not your marketing partner. They're not your client, you know what I'm saying? So you do have to kind of weed out some people when you do those kinds of partnerships. But having good marketing collateral, the message it sends is, number one, my brand and style. But number two, it sends a message that, hey, we know what we're doing when it comes to marketing and we want you, not can I be with you? We want you. There's a big difference. This is our IPS brochure, like, this is what the experience is gonna be like. It's great if you're switching to IPS. You know what IPS is? In-person sales. Just to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of IPS, how it's gonna benefit. But same thing, the brochure looks the same. This is our full-page ad we place in the Bed and Nest which is a baby and parenting magazine, again, same feeling. Your digital media needs to look like your handheld collateral. Your Facebook profile should all be consistent. They should look like they're from the same studio. You don't want your Twitter to be one thing, your Instagram to be another, and your Facebook to be another. It's disjointed. If you put all of your social media pages up on one computer screen, would they look like they're from the same company? Consistency. Same with your website. And this is my website, there's nothin' much to it, it's pretty clean. It's just a bunch of images and white and a few graphics here and there. It's very simple because I want the work and the style of the work to stand out, not the website design. To me, I'd rather have the images come forward. But that again is a stylized thing. So you need to kinda figure out what you love as a business owner and what message you wanna send and what words resonate with you, both feeling words and visual words. Again, back to that visual presence.
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Ratings and Reviews
Cesar Flores
Wow wow wow, as an artist on a beginner's stage this was an amazing presentation. Julia is a pro on teaching the psychology of the artist within ourselves. I will follow her from now on and start putting in practice her step by step techniques on finding my style as an artist. Thank you Creativelive and Thank You Julia, you are amazing
hollyferocious
This course is amazeballs. Love love love love love love love. Just buy it. :)
a Creativelive Student
Great class. A step by step way of finding a artist style that is from your heart. Stop hoping the style fairy will randomly visit you some day. I view this in-depth system as a smart exploration component integrated with a gut check component. Julia has laid it all out smartly and easy to follow. The work itself will not be easy but the steps are beautifully explained. Brilliant! Buy the course. Yeah I will be using it for years. Shelle