Creative Designs

Private label bottled water has been proven as an effective marketing promotion and brand builder but care must be taken in the quality of the Design in order to avoid ruining the branding message and reducing the quality of the brand.

An important element of any private label bottled water branding effort lies in the basic Design of the label. In order to create an effective label and labeling message, a professional Design effort is required. Although there are many powerful software products like Adobe Photoshop on the market, understanding the basic elements of Design is still required to produce a professional looking label. There is no substitute for professional Design and an amateurish label Design can seriously degrade a brand.

Design skill is as much an art as a science and dedicated training is required in order to produce a balanced, appealing, informative label for the private label bottled water end product. Graphic Design is a major in many universities and colleges and combines course work in color, graphic arts, perspective and other skills before a degree is awarded. A well trained Designer however will produce Designs and labels of superior quality.

One skill that is not taught in the classroom but must be acquired through practical experience is customer relations and communication with the customer. It takes skill and experience to translate the customer concept into a graphic Design and message and the ability to work with the customer controls the success of the project no matter how talented the Designer. If the customer is not happy, failure is the result.

The next step in the process is the translation of the Design onto a printed label, again within the Design parameters of the customer. At this point preliminary customer approval is necessary. After preliminary approval the Design must be applied to the label through either a flexo or digital printing process and proper quality printing equipment is required. Generally a small proof run is produced to show the customer for final approval of the label. Clear communication with the customer is required in order to gain customer approval.

Only after final customer approval can the final production run be produced. When production is completed the private label can be applied to the blank bottled water to produce the final private label promotional product.

There are many private label water companies on the market today and many of these attempt to cut corners through using amateur Design techniques and low cost labels and printing. The result is almost always disappointing to the customer, production of a cheap looking label message and many times damage to the brand.

When choosing a supplier to produced a private label that carries a high quality effective message, choose a supplier with a reputation of producing a quality product. Your brand message will show the results and your return on your advertising investment will be rewarding.

Jon M. Stout is Chairman of the Board of Element H2O an Ultra Pure bottled water company located in Chantilly, Virginia. For more information about bottled water, private label bottled water and bottled water delivery go to the Element H2O website.

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