If you’re new to the trade, branding is probably the last thing that comes to your mind when you think of organizations that deliver true social impact. However, a well-organized nonprofit branding is crucial to the successful development, functioning, and aim completion of the org.

A strong and reliable brand:

• Helps your nonprofit stand out amongst other competitive foundations, so your brand message and efforts to spread your cause gain popularity and reach a large audience.
• Grows your nonprofit’s visibility, generates support, boosts fundraising, and helps obtain other donations.
• Attracts and engages potential volunteers to join your team and contribute to your work and mission.

According to LiveWebinar.com, online seminars are an excellent approach for a present-day organization with modern visions and ideas to manage successful and efficient branding. These web seminars are a low-cost alternative to in-person and events, that help you describe your nonprofit in a more human way to gain attention and help. They offer you a valuable opportunity to reach many people around the world and raise awareness about your cause.

So how to create an impressive and memorable online seminar to promote and grow a nonprofit organization? Check out the following tips and guidance on how to run a successful webinar to boost the progress of a non-business entity:

Tell the Nonprofit Story

The primary goal of nonprofit branding is to both convince the mind and touch the heart and thus favor an organization traditionally dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating a shared point of view. So, start the webinar with enticing storytelling about the org while keeping in mind the following tips.

• Mind the difference between the personal brand and the brand promise. This way you can best empower the cause for achievements.
• Show how you spend funds and donations.
• Talk about what are the current obstacles and needs of your organization.
• Convince and intrigue the audience to build trust in your cause.
• Be sincere and tell authentic statements.

The webinar offers practical methods to justify them with facts and data in the form of diagrams, tables, and graphs. This information, presented professionally, proves to the attendees that your org has a real impact.

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Build Empathy and Emotion via Compelling Content

The webinar serves great for that because it allows you to intertwine the presenter with inspiring multimedia to convey the spirit of altruistic work you and your staff do.

A great way to build empathy is through creating a nonprofit video to explain your mission and to motivate your audience by showing that everyone is valuable and contributes to a cause.

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Increase Your Reach

An aspect of successful branding is to reach as many people as possible, and a webinar is becoming one of the best options for that. There are attendees who already interested in nonprofit activities and willing to register. A great way to further better your funnel is to offer an online course as free training for anybody onboarding the cause.

How to Optimize Your Online Seminar to Attract Even More Participants?

Well, consider leaders or virtual leaders of another organization or individuals competent in your field to take part in the webinar as guest speakers, panel participants, or moderators on a specific topic. This is an innovative approach to grow your nonprofit’s reputation amongst a new audience and spark curiosity towards your work.

According to tech professional Antoine Bechara, guest speakers probably have their own audience and if you help him or her to leverage it to the fullest, you can further increase interest in your nonprofit and cause. Always encourage both speakers and viewers to spread the word about your organization. If your message is authentic and right, you’ll be surprised by the extent of the results possible!

Choose High-Quality Leads

No matter how many presenters there are, or whether you or someone else runs the webinar, pick a host who is a professional for a successful event and branding.

A qualified presenter:

• is aware of the webinar topic and all details related to it;
• is intelligent, confident, but not arrogant, and has excellent public speaking skills;
• focuses on the goals of the webinar and chooses the most suitable strategy to run it;
• carefully lays out the content and doesn’t miss important points within the allotted time frame.

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Increase the Traffic to Your Website

As an activist of a nonprofit, you probably own a website about the org and the work you do. It’s important that you promote your site to increase awareness about your mission. Use the webinar to introduce your website to your target audience.

According to volunteer management experts Volunteer Mark, an online seminar offers you an ideal opportunity to share info, organization details, and how to register and volunteer rights. Direct your viewers to the website and encourage them to share it.

Final Thoughts

So, if you struggle to promote your nonprofit and accomplish your aims, focus on an approach to develop strong branding. It builds a reputation, increases awareness, and helps you raise money. Webinars are a sustainable and efficient way for your brand strategy to reach many people and potential contributors.

Stick to our detailed guide and tips on how to run your webinar to make sure that your nonprofit stand out and make the impact you desire.

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Because consumers have access to so many choices, we typically see how a company presents itself before we ever try one of its products. Branding, as a result, can be just as important as the actual quality of your product — especially when stocked with other products in a supermarket or listed on an online storefront.

Your product packaging could be the first encounter a new customer has with your brand. It needs to quickly communicate what you’re trying to sell, what makes it different and why the customer should buy that product rather than any of the others stocked in the same place. There are also practical concerns — like functionality or stackability — that may make product packaging less effective than it could be.

These are six ways to tell if your product packaging may actually be hurting your branding efforts and what you can do to design packaging that sells a product, rather than hold it back.

1. Your Packaging Doesn’t Tell and Sell

Good packaging should both tell a customer what’s inside and sell that product. With a glance, a customer should have a decent idea of the product inside and why it’s unique.

Simple or subtle design elements can communicate a lot about what makes your offerings unique. Bold color schemes and elegant fonts can suggest high-quality, luxury items. Textures, earth tones and agricultural imagery, on the other hand, can tell a customer that they’re looking at a product that’s organic, all-natural or sustainably made.

Some of the success of your product containers may be dependent on your branding. If your brand doesn’t really tell the story of your company — what you sell and why you sell it — it may be hard to correct brand-aligned packaging that effectively tells and sells. In this case, a rebrand or smaller adjustments to your company’s look may be the best option.

2. Your Packaging Is Wasteful

Wasteful or unnecessary packaging is bad for everyone and the planet. It often costs more, may generate hard-to-recycle waste and could alienate customers who are looking for ways to reduce their consumption.

Simple tweaks can make product packaging much more eco-friendly and efficient. Switching to sustainable packing materials, for example, or opting for biodegradable plastics, can reduce waste. Typically, you won’t need to rebrand to manage wasteful packaging. Tackling inefficient or non-sustainable product containers is a good place to start if you want to make your brand seem greener or cut back on manufacturing costs.

Wasteful products — like those in plastic clamshell containers — can also be hard to open, combining the problem of wrap rage with growing consumer dislike of plastic packaging. While containers pose a very temporary inconvenience for customers, they can still be frustrating, and may even make a customer less likely to buy from the same company.

3. Your Packaging Makes the Product Hard to Use

Hard-to-use packaging can hurt any product, even if the packaging is an effective brand ambassador in every other respect.

For example, a company may manufacture a cleaning spray in a distinctive bottle that is, unfortunately, not ergonomic or makes it hard to use the last of a product. This product may secure the first sale with its look, but turn off a customer from future purchases because it’s hard to use.

Ease-of-use should be one of your key considerations in package design, along with look, durability, stackability and sustainability. Simple usability testing or fielding feedback via email surveys can give you a sense of how well your current package design works and how it could be improved.

4. Your Packaging Is Inconsistent

Consistency in branding is one of the marketer’s best tools. With consistency, it’s more likely that customers will really remember your brand. With awareness, they could develop a preference for your products and may even recommend your business to friends or family.

Products in the same line should look like they’re coming from the same company. This helps build brand awareness, and it may even encourage customers to buy other products you sell if they have good experiences with your company.

5. Your Packaging Is Hard to Ship or Stock

Unusual packaging can help a product stand out. However, it can also make items more expensive to ship or stock. Packaging that’s not durable enough may also sustain damage in transit, potentially making a product unsellable.

Simple changes can help here. Square or rectangular boxes are always going to be easy to ship and stack. Looking to your competitors may also help. If they’re well-established, their packaging may provide hints for how you make your offerings easier to transport or shelve.

These changes may also provide an opportunity for making your packaging or containers more sustainable and more durable or efficient at the same time.

6. Your Packaging Is Hard to Understand

If a container makes any claims, it should be in the language that a customer speaks. Clearly communicating benefits with phrases your target audience will understand can help make sure they don’twalk away confused about what your product offers.

Understandable doesn’t always mean simple. Some businesses — like those manufacturing supplements, high-end skincare products, electronics or niche items — may have a highly informed customer base. These consumers can have different vocabularies and may expect clearer, more direct descriptions of how a product works.

References to specific ingredients, like vitamin C, creatine or rosehip oil, could confuse a general audience, for example — but the benefits they offer may be perfectly clear to certain customer segments.

How to Keep Packaging in Line With Your Branding

Packaging and branding that work together will be essential if you want to attract customers and keep your business growing. When evaluating your products, it’s best to make sure their containers effectively communicate the benefits. They should also be easy to use and open and, whenever possible, generate minimal waste.

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Lexie is a branding enthusiast and web designer. She loves checking out local flea markets and taking her Goldendoodle on hikes. Follow her on Twitter @lexieludesigner and check out her design blog, Design Roast.