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Business Color

Using Color Psychology
to Empower Your Business

Business color is one of the most important considerations when establishing your business and its profile. Just as you can use color psychology to empower yourself, you can use it to empower your business.

Understand Your Business Color Messages

Take the time to understand the messages you are sending when you choose what colors to use for:

your website

your marketing, advertising and promotions

your retail business

your office or other business premises

your business stationery

your packaging

your business clothing

These business color messages are instinctive, subliminal and powerful and they can convey both positive and negative impressions about you and your business.

Whether you understand people's responses to color or whether your choice of color is based on your own like or dislike of a color, you need to understand the effect it has on your business.

Color and its psychological meaning impacts our lives in so many ways - although it surrounds us physically and psychologically every minute of the day and night we tend to be unaware of the enormous impact it has on us.

We take color for granted, yet it has a powerful subliminal and subconscious effect on the physical and emotional well-being of each and every one of us.

Imagine a Colorless Shopping Mall

Imagine walking through a shopping mall that is devoid of color with everything in black, gray and white.

How different would you feel in this depressing, colorless shopping environment?

Would you be inspired to purchase beautiful clothing, makeup, items for your home, or even a delicious cake from the café? Probably not!!

Would you be emotionally, sensually or physically stimulated enough to motivate you to make a purchase? Probably not!!

Color stimulates all our senses and as a result it has an effect on all our purchasing decisions.

Most purchasing decisions are made emotionally and then justified by logic!

It is essential that you are aware of both the positive and negative impact and response of each color on the emotions.

There is no such thing as a bad color, just colors that are more suitable for your particular business purpose in order to get the response you want.

Target Markets

The first step in making the best choices for your business colors is to establish who your target market is and then you can match the colors to that market to get the best response.

Is your market:

male, female or both

young children

teenagers

older people

a particular ethnic group

an industry group

a hobby group?

Be aware that colors can have different meanings depending on the culture, the industry and your target market.

Also be aware that the buyer of your product may not be the end user of your product - in this case you need to target the colors and marketing of the product at the user and target the advertising at the purchaser.

By using a number of different colors in your marketing program and taking care with the balance of these colors you can counterbalance and compensate for any negative cultural associations.

Maintain Your Integrity

Of course it is important you maintain your integrity and that of your business and its products or services when choosing colors for your marketing.

Don't use a business color that compromises your integrity by suggesting, through association, that your product is something it is not. For example, don't use blue just because it is the most favored color of all - it may not be the best choice for your business.

Green is a color that is now associated with organic and natural products - don't use it to deceive buyers into believing a product is organic and natural if it isn't. However, green is also associated with the outdoors and freshness and this may be the message you wish to impart, even though your product may not be organic and natural.

Color is Subliminal - Choose Carefully

Choose your colors appropriately and wisely.

Color is subliminal and it can help to establish your brand and your image without even saying a word.

Don't just copy other successful businesses; use the information on the psychological meaning of each color in business to give your business an individual and unique identity.

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