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Here are some considerations to keep in mind when it comes to developing your company’s brand guidelines.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-heading-3-font-size wp-block-heading\" id=\"bbd6\"><strong>What a Brand Style Guide Looks like</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"da32\">A brand guideline is a rulebook a company follows in the creation of all branding materials. This includes the company’s use of language and grammar, its logo, the font and colors used in marketing materials, types of photography used, and more. At its core, it is a reference tool that helps brands maintain consistency within the marketplace, ensuring that all outward material feels, sounds, and looks the same to consumers.</p>\n\n\n<p id=\"0863\">It’s important to have an established brand guideline, especially when working with other business partners. This is true for affiliate marketers who will be sharing branded content with their affiliate partners regularly. Content must remain consistent when being promoted by affiliates, as you want to create a relationship with consumers that will drive engagement. Having an instantaneously recognizable brand is just one of the ways to achieve this. Companies often develop brand books that contain their brand guidelines. This book can be referenced when creating a blog for your website or developing a new campaign for an <a href=\"https://www.refersion.com/blog/instagram-guide-to-affiliate-marketing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram affiliate marketing</a> strategy. The following should be contained in your company’s brand guidelines:</p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Mission Statement </strong>— This outlines what your brand stands for: who it serves, what it’s primary goal is, and what values make it tick.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Buyer Persona</strong> — This is your average customer — the person to whom you aim to speak whenever producing content, whether that is a 50-year-old Texan man who lives a simple life and likes driving his truck or a suburban, middle-class family that enjoys summertime recreational activities.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Written Style Guide</strong> — Based on your company’s mission statement and buyer persona, you’ll want to develop a written style guide concerning the language used to speak to your audience. This will include language choices, agreeable use of slang, and grammar choices.</li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Visual Style Guide</strong> — This will include color palettes, photography, brand logo, fonts, and more. Your visual style guide will consist of all those things that give your company its definitive look.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"d030\">Let’s consider some popular modern visual style guides to see just what a set of brand guidelines looks like in action.</p>\n\n\n\r\n  <div class=\"wp-block-image-wrapper\" style=\"\" >\r\n    \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https://cdn.refersion.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/26102731/1_CpqmfyCM7tM4wWZXWZyHLg-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"Macbook \" class=\"wp-image-5197\" srcset=\"https://cdn.refersion.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/26102731/1_CpqmfyCM7tM4wWZXWZyHLg-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.refersion.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/26102731/1_CpqmfyCM7tM4wWZXWZyHLg-300x200.jpeg 300w, https://cdn.refersion.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/26102731/1_CpqmfyCM7tM4wWZXWZyHLg-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.refersion.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/26102731/1_CpqmfyCM7tM4wWZXWZyHLg-455x303.jpeg 455w, https://cdn.refersion.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/26102731/1_CpqmfyCM7tM4wWZXWZyHLg.jpeg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /></figure>\n  </div>\r\n\r\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-heading-3-font-size wp-block-heading\" id=\"5633\"><strong>Notable Examples of Popular Brand Guidelines</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Skype</strong></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"062f\">One of the most-used video chatting platforms, Skype gets its clean, modern look from its equally&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.skype.com/en/legal/brand-guidelines/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sleek brand style guide</a>. The company’s guidelines focus mostly on how to present its products to market and how its logo is meant to be used in the content.</p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Spotify</strong></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"f2bc\">Spotify’s lime green and white logo is easily identifiable, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https://developer.spotify.com/branding-guidelines/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the company’s style guide</a>&nbsp;can be thanked for that. Moreover, its style guide provides the means to utilize logo variations and how to best produce album artwork for its site, helping artists in the process.</p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Netflix</strong></li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"e308\"><a href=\"https://brand.netflix.com/en/assets/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Netflix</a>&nbsp;is another company with a logo and website design that is expertly crafted. Their brand style guide focuses on the use of typeface, color coding, and sets of rules for the sizing of graphics and photos.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-heading-3-font-size wp-block-heading\" id=\"925d\"><strong>Incorporating Brand Guidelines into Your Affiliate Marketing Strategy</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"7570\">For&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.refersion.com/learn/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">affiliate marketers</a>, utilizing brand guidelines is a must. Promoting your business through affiliates and influencers requires developing content that is branded — and easily identifiable. Brand guidelines are necessary to help your company create an aesthetic that is immediately noticeable across the marketplace. If you’re not sure where to start, especially with developing branded content for your affiliate marketing campaigns, consider&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.refersion.com/contact/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reaching out to our Refersion staff</a>&nbsp;for help.</p>\n","title":"Brand Guidelines for Your Affiliate Marketing Strategy","nodeType":"Article","date":"2020-11-16T07:24:00","uri":"/blog/affiliate-brand-guidelines/","modified":"2023-02-24T10:11:01","lastEditedBy":{"node":{"name":"Werner Geyser"}},"articleCategories":{"nodes":[]},"featuredImage":{"node":{"sourceUrl":"https://cdn.refersion.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/07084925/Tips-on-Creating-Following-a-Set-of-Brand-Guidelines.png","srcSet":"https://cdn.refersion.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/07084925/Tips-on-Creating-Following-a-Set-of-Brand-Guidelines-300x191.webp 300w, https://cdn.refersion.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/07084925/Tips-on-Creating-Following-a-Set-of-Brand-Guidelines-1024x652.webp 1024w, https://cdn.refersion.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/07084925/Tips-on-Creating-Following-a-Set-of-Brand-Guidelines-768x489.webp 768w, https://cdn.refersion.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/07084925/Tips-on-Creating-Following-a-Set-of-Brand-Guidelines-455x290.webp 455w, https://cdn.refersion.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/07084925/Tips-on-Creating-Following-a-Set-of-Brand-Guidelines.png 2048w","altText":"Tips on Creating & Following a Set of Brand Guidelines"}},"author":{"node":{"uri":"/author/ruthie/","firstName":"Ruthie","lastName":"Carey","userTitleRole":"","avatar":{"url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a207f707ce3808fbc76fa841c404614e21a75b6394ebccace103fba2a575234c?s=96&d=mm&r=g"}}},"seo":{"title":"Brand Guidelines for Your Affiliate Marketing Strategy","metaDesc":"Do you have a plan for how your affiliates and influencers will promote your business? 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