Corporate Identity Checklist

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Identify the Items You Need

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Note – This is one from a sequence of exercises from the Corporate Identity subject outlined in the Strategic
Marketing Process eBook. Download the free e-book www.growthpanel.com/marketing-tools/index.html
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It’s a good idea to select a logo, color palette and fonts after you create your brand strategy. [Brand Strategy
can help]

To develop the rest of your corporate identity, match your value proposition to an appropriate perceived
quality level in the table below. Then select a design theme to use consistently throughout all your corporate
identity.

Appropriate perceived
Your value quality level(s) (choose Design Theme (choose what’s
Comments
proposition what’s best for your best for your brand strategy)
brand strategy)
Operational You’re primarily Average Standard design
excellence/cost competing on price One or more “unique”
leadership features (size, paper, etc.)
based on your brand strategy

Product You’re positioning your Higher than Use interesting paper,


leadership/ product/service as best- average size, format, and/or design
innovation in-class, a new Very high
innovation, etc.

Customer You’re selling a Higher than Standard design


intimacy/ solutions relationship that solves average One or more “unique”
your customers’ needs Very high features (size, paper, etc.)
based on your brand strategy

Your Value Proposition

Your Design Theme

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Now select the identity items you need to create.

If you have it, is it consistent


Check the items
Identity item with your brand and design
you’ll create
theme above?
Letterhead – printed Yes No Need

Letterhead – electronic Yes No Need

Business cards Yes No Need

Fax covers Yes No Need

Email templates (font, size, color, etc.) Yes No Need

Email signatures (at the end of the message) Yes No Need

Regular (#10) envelopes Yes No Need

Window envelopes (for invoices) Yes No Need

Invoices and statements Yes No Need

Mailing labels for large envelopes Yes No Need

Notecards/envelopes Yes No Need

Memos Yes No Need

Promotional items Yes No Need

Banners Yes No Need

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