This document provides branding and marketing guidelines for Hanson Regan staff to follow when creating documents, presentations, online content and using social media. It outlines the approved colours, fonts, templates and styles to use for Word documents, PowerPoint presentations and email signatures. It also details how to manage Hanson Regan's online presence through its website, blog, social media accounts and use of platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and 際際滷Share. Specific guidelines are provided around content creation and sharing across different channels.
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Introduction
This document is the official guide on how to use HANSON REGAN
branding and colours within documents such as Word proposals,
PowerPoint presentations and Visio workflows.
It also reviews typical marketing content streams which staff should
follow.
These guidelines should be followed by all staff at all times.
Any questions about the content of this guide, please speak to Faye
Lewis
1. Branding ............................................... 2
Colours ........................................................ 2
Fonts .......................................................... 3
Word Documents ................................................. 4
Heading 2 ...................................................... 4
Heading 2 ...................................................... 5
PowerPoint Presentation ........................................ 6
Email Signature ................................................ 6
2. Hanson Regan Online ................................... 7
The Hanson Regan Website ....................................... 7
3. Social Media .......................................... 10
LinkedIn ...................................................... 10
Facebook ...................................................... 11
Twitter ....................................................... 11
Google+ ....................................................... 13
際際滷share .................................................... 13
Pinterest ..................................................... 14
YouTube ....................................................... 14
4. Content we Create at Hanson Regan ..................... 16
Blogs ......................................................... 16
Sharing Content across Channels ............................... 16
5. Marketing Streams to Follow, Study and Share........... 17
Podcasts ............................ Error! Bookmark not defined.
Blogs ......................................................... 17
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1. Branding
Colours
We have 5 colours in our palette for a more comprehensive and full
list please visit the logo file located in Fayes Images folder
for a PDF of the full branding guidelines. :
Blue
Orange
Light Grey (text website)
Dark Grey (dark greys on the site)
Black
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Fonts
Our web font is BlissBold and BlissLight. It can be found and
downloaded here: http://www.type.co.uk
**The templates for the business have been created in this font.
Staff are expected to download and use these fonts for external
facings comms. Where this is not possible, please revert to Arial.
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Word Documents
Styles
**Please see note above about Fonts
Word Style Format Keyboard Shortcut
Heading 1 Source BlissLight ,
14pt, R:106 G:197
B:185, Bold
Ctrl+Alt+1
Heading 2
Source BlissLight,
13pt, R:227 G:91
B:153, Bold
Ctrl+Alt+2
Heading 3
Source BlissLight,
12pt, R:106 G:197
B:185, Bold
Ctrl+Alt+3
Heading 4
Source BlissLight,
11pt, R:227 G:91
B:153, Bold
TOC 1 Source BlissLight,
12pt, R:106 G:197
B:185, Bold
TOC 2 Source BlissLight,
11pt, R:140 G:198
B:63, Bold
TOC 3 Source BlissLight
TOC 4 Source BlissLight
Normal Source BlissLight,
Grey, R:97 G:97 B:99
11pt, Justified
Ctrl+Shift+N
Quote Source BlissLight,
R:97 G:97 B:99 11pt,
Italics, left and
right Indent 2cm
Hanson Regan
Bullet
Source BlissLight,
Grey R:97 G:97 B:99,
11pt triangle
bullet blue R:106
G:197 B:185, (bullet
10pt)
1. Numbered lists Source BlissLight,
Grey R:97 G:97 B:99,
11pt number with
dot blue R:106 G:197
B:185, (number 11pt)
Example Headings and Body Text
Heading 1
Heading 1 is normally used to start a heading body.
John said:
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"Growing honest, professional relationships.
The above is in Hanson Regan Quote style
Heading 2
Heading 2 is normally used as a sub heading of Heading 1.
Heading 3
Heading 3 is normally used as a sub heading of Heading 2.
Heading 4
Heading 4 is normally used as a sub heading of Heading 3.
Bulleted List:
The bullets
Are orange triangles
Source BlissLight Pro
Bullets are size 10
The text is grey size 11.
Numbered lists:
1. The numbers are in Hanson Regan blue
2. Source BlissLight size 11
3. The text is grey size 11.
Example Table of Contents
Colours ................................................... 2
Word Documents ............................................ 3
Styles ......................................................... 4
Heading 1 ................................................. 4
Heading 2 ...................................................... 4
Image size on all Word docs .................................... 6
Letterhead ..................................................... 4
Normal .............................. Error! Bookmark not defined.
Invoice ............................. Error! Bookmark not defined.
Terms of Business ...................Error! Bookmark not defined.
PowerPoint Presentation ................................... 6
Visio ...........................Error! Bookmark not defined.
Email Signature ........................................... 6
Heading 1 ................................................. 4
Heading 2 ...................................................... 5
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Image size on all Word docs
2.5cm high square - and when used in headers, align to the border
running along the bottom of the header.
Margins for Word Documents
Where separators are needed, use a horizontal line in Hanson Regan
Grey (as below).
Hanson Regan Word Template
The following templates can be found in the Templates folder in
Everyone
Letterhead
PowerPoint Presentation
The PowerPoint template can be found in the Templates folder in
Everyone. There is a basic slide. If any guidance is needed,
please see Faye.
Bear in mind that many of our slide decks can be added to 際際滷share.
Again, check with Faye about this area and see the 際際滷share notes
below for more information.
Email Signature
Full Email Signature
This is co-ordinated by Cortec in the style below.
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2. Hanson Regan Online
The Hanson Regan Website
The website can be found at www.hansonregan.com. All content and
copy is controlled by faye.lewis@hansonregan.com. Monthly marketing
reports are created to study the effectiveness of the site.
Hanson Regan Blog
We publish at least 1 blog to www.hansonregan.com/blog per month.
These blogs will be content created by Faye Lewis and Katie Matthews.
Faye will oversee the editing and publishing.
Each blog needs the following:
Title
Display Date
Category
Author
Tag
Content
Meta Description
Meta Tags
Up to 3 related stories
A snippet (image) created by Faye
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Title
The title will be decided by the author of the blog and will ideally
be key word rich Display Date.
This will be the date that you want the blog to have as its date of
publication. When scheduling blogs, make sure that this date and
the publish at fields are the same
If there is a
formatting issue
when copying and
pasting text,
please open
Notepad++ and copy
the HTML into the
Source code on the
site.
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Author
Each blog will have an
author as demonstrated
below.
Tag
The content should be tagged according to its relevance (eg. a blog
about LinkedIn will have the category Social Media and tag LinkedIn.
Testimonials and Case Studies
We normally gather testimonial and case studies from clients toward
then end of their project (or if they are long-standing client).
The content will be gathered and will be uploaded into the
Testimonial folder in Everyone > ISO9001a> Testimonials.
Image Sizes and Colours
Home page Main Banner - background: none;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.3);
Meet the Team Photos Dimension 1558 x 1558 pixels. Size 290kb
Who we work with, meet the team & Case Studies - 289x196px
Blog Banners 675 x 396 pixels. Size 53kb
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3. Social Media
Note: Please ensure that you have read and fully understood the
Hanson Regan Social Media Policy before entering into any social
media activity (be it personal or for business).
LinkedIn
Individual Profiles
All staff will have a LinkedIn profiles, and will follow
instructions on best practice from Faye Lewis in their induction
process.
Status updates should be sent AT LEAST daily and should be a mix of
SAP related content that is of value to our clients and prospects.
There are also company culture posts, tech and content that speaks
to our audience.
Equally, updates should be a nice blend of broadcasting value and
listening / responding to others this is TRUE engagement.
LinkedIn is used by all staff members to share content to show
Hanson Regan are aware of the market in which they operate. Fayes
routine is to post a news based article in the morning at 8 am
follow up with a tech / IT / digital update or blog post (see page
15 for a list of sources from which to post content as determined
by our audience survey).
Company Page
Our company page is managed by Faye. We have:
a home page
a showcase page
Our company page needs a status update at least once a day. This
will be copied across to our company Facebook page, Google+ page,
Twitter.
Once the status has been updated, staff should Like / Share the
update to maximise marketing.
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Facebook
Weekly Status Updates
For Facebook schedule out via Hootsuite. Build a content pipeline
spend an hour a day looking at news stories online via BuzzSumo /
see what is trending / what is getting good traction via Twitter
Look at who follows us and engage with them by wishing them Happy
Birthday, comment on their milestones. Write one article p/m that
is hosted on LinkedIn and push this out via Facebook p/m
(this will increase once our audience base grows)
Once our content partners are in place share their content on our
FB page and vice versa one daily post. Dont overdo this because
Facebook de-ranks content that isnt being responded to.
Encourage staff to like and share posts.
Daily Status Update
Bearing in mind Facebooks less formal nature, daily updates about
the office, arguments about who is making tea or getting the new
iPhone, what the team is up to today would work great. Also think
about infographics, reports, blogs etc
Twitter
Our Accounts
We have 2 Twitter accounts
@HansonRegan (run by Faye)
@JohnKellyHRL (run by John)
Branding of Twitter Accounts
In the Profile window of Twitter the account must be configured as
follows:
The header mirrors our website homepage and this is used across all
our social streams. We use the favicon as oppose to the full logo.
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Tweets should be sent AT LEAST daily and should be a mix of business-
related content that is of value to our clients and prospects, and
personal content that youre happy to share which wont offend.
Equally, tweets should be a nice blend of broadcasting value and
listening / responding to others this is TRUE engagement. We take
a suited and booted approach to Twitter, drawing on thematic,
recruitment, SAP and industry based content. Banners for adverts
are created in Canva https://www.canva.com or Gimp (an open source
version of InDesign).
Images work better than plain text in tweets.
If RTing an article follow this format: Quote State what the
article image is link shortened via either bitley or in Hootsuite.
Note that Hootsuite is used to post content to Twitter.
Google+
We have a Google+ company page and also pages for each member of
staff. We use Google+ to connect and encourage professionals to
share our content and to try and convert leads back to website
traffic by linking back to the site.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+HansonRegan/posts blog posts
should be posted here.
Note that Hootsuite can post content to this page. Faye controls
the content sent to this page.
Monthly groups are added to circles there is a spreadsheet with
notable people on it located in Google Docs:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao1OX3UN25EvdHRWR3lwW
XQ0a0RhWnFuWml5RnJHdkE&hl=en_US#gid=0
Add circles of people in tech / SAP / IT / Authors and build a
community of people who can support your conytent across various
channels / share and do the same for them.
際際滷share
We have a 際際滷share business page:
www.slideshare.net/HansonRegan
The account is managed by Faye Lewis.
Note:
1. All 際際滷shares should have relevant descriptions, titles,
tags and categories and should be key word rich.
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2. Run through the 際際滷share once it is uploaded, as often text
and graphic heavy slides can resize and shift the content.
Adjustments may need to be made to the slide and ti should be
re-uploaded.
3. All files should be set to NOT allow for download. This
feature can be found once you have uploaded the file within
Privacy Settings.
4. Once the 際際滷share has been created, they should be marketed
across the various online channels.
Staff should be notified and asked to upload them onto their own
LinkedIn profiles and to Google+ share and Tweet etc.
Pinterest
We have a Pinterest account at:
https://www.pinterest.com/HansonReganRec/
Every blog we post on HansonRegan.com should be pinned to at least
one board within the Hanson Regan Pinterest estate which is
relevant.
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Note: Ensure that every blog we publish is shared to Pinterest using
the URL of the blog in order that we can attract follow traffic
via SEO.
YouTube
YouTube is where we compile playlists, corporate videos and can
showcase company culture videos. On Monday source one video and
add it to an existing playlist. We currently have:
SAP Training Videos
SAP Videos
Motivational
Music Playlists songs about IT
Top Films for Tech Geeks
Career Advice
Our Favourite WIRED videos
Faye will Automate Hootsuite so on a Friday afternoon we have a
video from one of our playlists posted out on Twitter, Facebook,
Google+ and LinkedIn. MoM monitor user subscriptions and rate the
top videos / number of plays / shares and report back.
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4. Content we Create at Hanson Regan
Blogs
We blog for our own brand and have a view to use strategic partners
to help curate content for our site. These include:
BluSky Digital
Ad You Like IT
SUG User
APSCo
Sharing Content across Channels
Once content is created (or appropriate content found online),
ensure that you broadcast it across the rest of our social media
estate.
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5. Marketing Streams to Follow, Study and
Share
Its crucial that all staff stay updated on the latest content in
recruitment, recruitment technology, social media and social
recruitment.
Here are some streams which are important to the business.
Blogs
Ideally you should use Feedly to subscribe to blogs and other online
content. Types of content should at least include:
www.hansonregan.com
http://sapinsider.wispubs.com/Magazines/SAPinsider
www.contractoruk.com/first_timers/
http://www.t3.com/
http://www.accenture.com/Microsties/literature-
library/sap/Pages/index.aspx
http://www.computerweekly.com/
http://www.theguardian.com/sap-partner-zone
http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/series/next-gen-
tech
http://topsapjobs.co.uk/articles/Daily-rate-checker-for-SAP-
contractors
http://thedailywtf.com
http://www.infoworld.com