All steps of creating a new mascot involve trying everything you – and your mascot – do with your brand’s mission. The same should always be true of your marketing and advertising campaigns. The most common form of marketing with a mascot is to have someone dress up in a costume and attend events, parties, or attractions. But it’s important to remember that you can think outside-the-box too. Yes, your mascot can appear on print-ads, in commercials, on billboards and marketing media but again, these are all conventional. What if you attended a local fireworks or entertainment event and used a projector to show your mascot in the sky, as part of the festivities? What if your mascot visited hospitals and kids homes to make sick, hurting children happy and entertained? What if your mascot showed up on a popular kid’s TV show – like Sesame Street – to carry on the message of your brand? There are many possibilities for mascot ideas. The main idea is to get your mascot out there and out into the world. Include them in your print ads and media campaigns. Turn your social media into a personal mascot profile where he/she can interact with customers and your audience. Make sure your mascot attends local and remote events. It’s no different from any other form of marketing where you push your content and message in front of your audience. The only exception being, your mascot is your message.

Mascots are an excellent idea, and they serve as an incredibly usef when they stand out. It’s what differentiates you from the competition and makes everyone remember you. Your brand must create mascots that have their unique personality and look. Mascots have to be different, which is certainly tough to do in today’s world. There is one easy, surefire way to make sure this happens. Align your mascot with your company’s unique mission and values. Brainstorm and come up with the overall message that your mascot will be trying to send. The Energizer Bunny is an excellent example of this. It’s not the bunny, the drum or the symbolic nature of the rabbit itself that portrays the company’s message, it’s everything it does. Energizer wants to show customers that their batteries last longer and keep going and going and going. Naturally, they came up with a mascot – the bunny – that continues to push forward in an almost stubborn, relentless way. The Energizer Bunny shows what the company was trying to say with their mascot and you can see this in every print ad, every commercial and every use of the bunny. That is how you make your mascot unique. Decide what message and values you want your mascot to share with the world and then focus

As a business first and foremost, you know that if you’re going to spend a lot of time and resources into something that you want a positive return on investment. Naturally, you’re going to question what benefits a mascot will bring to the table? How will they help your brand and your products? What influence will a mascot have on your audience? A large part of this is going to depend on you and how you design your mascot. So long as you align the mascot with company values, you should be on the right track. Allstate’s Mayhem, for instance, is a unique and different take on mascots. His job is to show audiences why they would want insurance through damaging property, ruining belongings and causing general chaos. The personality of Mayhem is remarkably different from something like Mickey Mouse or Tony the Tiger, who are lovable cartoon characters that promote positivity and happiness. But that doesn’t mean Mayhem is a poor choice for a mascot. He still has an influence on Allstate’s audience, and that’s the most important thing to take away from this. The bulk of the outcome will depend on the mascot you choose, the personality you give them and the message you want them to portray. Of course, there are general benefits to having a mascot too. They make your company name and brand stand out from competitors. They increase brand and product awareness in the marketplace. They make your company more personable Mascots and characters connect with your audience in a way that conventional advertisements, company spokespersons and general content cannot. You create a family-like company culture, and your employees will learn to love the mascot just as much as your customers.