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Welcome to your communications partner, specialising in copywriting, marketing and branding in Cyprus. Ioannis Loizou is here to harness the power of language, to conjure-up your unique image and to spell success for your business.
A brand strategist and wordsmith, Ioannis Loizou's imaginative engine defines your brand, giving you an engaging voice that helps you to connect with your audience and become part of their daily lives.
From advertisements to brochures, from promotional literature to websites, whatever your purpose, Ioannis Loizou has the expertise to deliver sharp, incisive words and ideas, giving you the cutting-edge to cut-through your competition. Whether you need help with messaging and how to position yourself in the marketplace or support with copywriting words for your marketing materials, you will not find a more creative and results-driven consultant.
So get in touch and make words your marketing weapon of choice.
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An aside...
The Politics of Communications
Change. It worked for Obama and it worked for David Cameron. Well, sort of.
The UK's general election made for some gripping viewing. Whether it was the resurgence of spin doctor Alastair Campbell, the election debates and the subsequent attempts to present the outcomes or the airbrushing of Cameron's poster campaigns, it made for some fascinating stuff.
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What's in a Name?
Wherever we're from, whenever we were born, one of the first things we're each given is a name. More often then not, it's the first thing we identify with somebody when we think of them. Similarly, the name is the first thing that springs to mind when we think of a product or brand and is possibly the most important aspect of marketing. Click here to read more...
Environ-mentalist!
While Cyprus-based companies may be slightly behind our European counterparts in embracing the environmental marketing phenomena, some pioneering companies are getting ahead of their competition by recognising the need to initiate environmentally-friendly narratives with their customers.
Let's Be Brief
The importance of a quality briefing document should never be underestimated when it comes to the graphic design of, say, a company logo or website. How else do you expect your graphic designer to come up with something that accurately articulates your brand... from a chat across a table? Click here to read more...
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The Shape of Communications
The communications industry has an explicit ability to demonstrate how the power of language signifies and constructs the world around us. In this sense, the communications industry is not one that merely reflects on a material reality but, more powerfully and necessarily, constructs a reality. Specifically, communication is a unique weapon in both defining and creating a relationship between a consumer and a brand, product, service or cause.
Brands shape the world around us. They create expectation and fulfilment of the material reality of your product or service. From McDonald's burgers to Kellogg's cornflakes, from Sony stereos right down to the reputation of your local restaurant, there is a brand image at work, a simulacrum, that governs your relationship with what you consume on a day to day basis. Not only do these reputations create demand, they actively distort the way we experience products or services, both positively and negatively.
Consistency within Limits
Lots of us have heard the phrase 'brand consistency.' So much so, that we often forget to consider its limitations. Specifically, we can often overstress the importance of brand consistency while neglecting the benefits that the plural nature of a brand can bring us. 'Brand consistency' is a buzz phrase because it reassures us that we're in control of what our brand is saying about us. But think of it this way: are people that inflexible? Everyday, we adjust ourselves to different circumstances, showing different aspects of our personalities. A brand has the potential to do exactly the same, to engage with a plurality of people instead of an overly-narrowed down, artificial group that, in reality, is often no more than a mere stereotype. In short, brands can pluralise themselves too.
That's not to say there doesn't need to be a consistent framework to work within. But humanising your brand and respecting the diversity of the people it speaks to can really open up the way your audiences connect with you. To take a good example, HSBC purport to be 'The World's Local Bank.' With this ingenious concept, they use our universal notion of the 'the world' to provide us with a framework of consistency to express their recognition for our local differences. At once, we feel considered and accounted for on a local level by a brand who are quite literally, global. We can all learn from this example when thinking about where to place the dial between consistency and diversification. And all this from a bank!
