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Branding · Published February 14, 2023

Leigh Ann Ambrosi
Managing Partner & EVP, Consumer Lifestyle

Communicating the Importance of Your Brand in the Pet Space

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The pet care market is very broad, as it includes everything from big pet supply brands to vet practices and even local pet grooming salons. One thing all these segments of the market have in common is a love for pets. Brands within the space have the opportunity to connect with a massive target audience through effective marketing efforts. To be successful, pet care brands have to be able to effectively communicate the benefits they offer consumers and their pets through use of their products and services. One way to accomplish this is through highlighting how important they are to the well-being of pets. Pet brands that are able to communicate these benefits can create deeper and more long-lasting relationships with their target audiences ultimately generating more sales.

Entertainment

Approaching your marketing with an entertainment angle is one of the ways pet brands can communicate the benefits they offer pet owners. Pets tend to be entertaining to their owners, and companies can play into this by sharing interesting or engaging content with their target audiences. For example, companies can share fun facts on a daily basis about the different types of pets their products and services cater to though social media platforms, emails, or blog posts.They can also highlight the benefits pets can get from using the company's products, and encourage the target audiences to start engaging a lot more with the content the company is sharing across its communication channels. These social posts, emails and blogs provide customers with some entertainment or even a laugh. In turn, that will create a more positive impression of the company and its solutions.

Information

Providing entertaining content is a great way for pet brands to keep their audiences engaged. It’s important for companies to increase their engagement to stay connected with their customers ,but, to boost the reputation of a pet brand, companies will have to start sharing more informative and educational content with their target audiences. That means planning, creating, and then distributing high-quality and valuable pieces of content. The content should serve to educate the target audience that the company is trying to reach, and work to improve the ranking of the company's website on search engine results pages. All this will ensure that more potential customers will find the website. Most pet owners are likely to appreciate educational content from the pet brands that they want to do business with. Especially if the content is able to answer some of the more common questions that they have about their pets and how to best keep them healthy or safe. To create this type of content, companies will have to think about the types of questions that the target audience asks the company every day, especially as it relates to the products or services they provide. One option is to answer these frequently asked questions in the form of a blog post, or post frequent updates on social media platforms. These tactics allow brands to highlight how they offer consumers more benefits with their products than competitors.

Leigh Ann Ambrosi

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Leigh Ann Ambrosi

Leigh Ann Ambrosi leads the Consumer Lifestyle division at 5W. With over 25 years of experience, she is a seasoned expert in brand development, publicity, and media relations. Whether shaping strategy, restructuring workflow, handling multiple clients or managing budgets big or small, she effects change with a constant eye towards producing results. Prior to joining the 5W team, Leigh Ann was Executive Vice President, and Chief Administrative Officer at Magrino Public Relations for over nine years. While at Magrino, she oversaw the Consumer and Food, Wine, & Spirits divisions, and managed the operations of the agency. She was responsible for signing new clients, strengthening existing client relationships and programs, and providing oversight for brands including Martha Stewart, Hunter Douglas, SCOUT, The Ranch, Vaughan, Flybird Cocktails, and Horse Soldier Bourbon, among others. Her passion for her work is paramount, which positions her as a strong mentor to junior staff, inspiring them to a higher level of performance. One of her many accomplishments previous to her agency work include a career in book publishing publicity and marketing, where she created multi-platform marketing campaigns that encompassed advertising, events, social media, buzz marketing stunts, publicity, brand building, and strategic partnerships. During her tenure in publishing, she helped to build the brands for authors including Mario Batali, Deepak Chopra, Jillian Michaels, Tyler Florence, Haylie Pomroy and more. Leigh Ann holds a degree in Mass Communications, with a minor in Journalism, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She lives with her two kids in Maplewood, NJ

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