1. Steps to Making a Visual Communications Plan for the
Interior of Your Business
For companies looking to expand, promote products, or even just broaden their brand awareness, a
visual communications plan can help set things in motion and keep everyone on track. This type of
plan clearly lays out not only the goal or mission statement of the company, but it also defines a clear
strategy, future steps, as well as what the plan hopes to achieve for the company. As a business, it is
essential to share this plan with your employees in
order to create a cohesive approach to marketing,
promotion, sales, and your brand awareness.
It’s one thing to just chat about your communication
plan, but it’s a whole other story to create an actual
physical visual communications plan that understand
and implement. It makes following the steps and even
understanding the entire process a lot easier. After all,
some people learn visually, so this is a way to appeal to
them as well!
Any good visual communications plan needs to be laid
out in such a way that it’s easy to follow and
understand. This means breaking things down into processes or steps - using clear and concise
language that everyone can understand. If the plan is too long or too involved, employees aren’t
usually willing to read through it in its entirety, which makes sticking to the plan is next to
impossible. Remember the whole goal of the visual communication plan was to get everyone on the
same page following the same process.
... So, in order to do this, you need to do the following:
- Start your plan with a brief description of the goal/mission. This should be just a couple sentences
long.
- Specify who the target audience is to ensure employees are appealing to those consumers.
- Next you need to lay out a clear and concise strategy. The strategy is the steps you will be taking in
order to achieve your goal/mission. Again try to make this section short and sweet and just stick to
the basics. You don’t want to create an overly-involved strategy. By keeping it basic it has a greater
chance of succeeding.
- Discuss any future measures that are above and beyond the strategy you have discussed. This means
future steps you'll be taking as the plan begins to take effect and bring about results. Be sure to
discuss what you hope your plan will achieve and what you plan to do if it's not bringing about the
results you hoped for.
- Lastly, be sure that everyone gets a chance to read through the plan and have a copy nearby before
the plan goes into effect.
Have a well-defined visual plan for your business that addresses the needs of the users using the space
is critical to creating signage that is going to create positive results for the company. Always consider
your intentions prior to making your plan as this will help to craft everything around it and lead to the
best results.
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