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Mentoring activities for MSMEs engaged in snacks, namely tempeh chips. Production activities are carried out every day because of the many enthusiasts and consumers who like the products of the Mak Ribut Tempeh Chips MSME. The purpose of this activity is to The purpose of this activity is to provide assistance for business development in MSMEs by identifying problems that exist in MSMEs, and trying to provide alternative solutions. After conducting the observation stage, several problems were found faced by MSMEs, including not having a business profile, not having a logo, not having a promotional Banner, not having a packaging sticker, not having a stamp, not having promotional media in the form of product photos, production videos and promotional videos, not having a social media account, not knowing the calculation of HPP, and not having simple financial records. During the mentoring activities that created a series of activities that resulted in several programs and after analyzing the UMKM Keripik Tempe Mak Ribut produced a positive impact on UMKM owners such as having a business profile that is useful as a business identity, logo, Banner, packaging stickers that are useful for introducing product brands, stamps, product photos, production videos, promotional videos, social media accounts, as a promotional media in marketing their products, and updates on gmaps so that consumers know the location of the business. Calculation of HPP (Cost of Goods Sold) so that UMKM know how much profit is obtained, as well as simple bookkeeping so that business finances are organized and not mixed with personal finances.

Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are the backbone of the Indonesian economy which have a strategic role in national economic development. In the context of the traditional culinary industry, pempek as one of Palembang's typical foods has great economic potential. This traditional food has become a superior commodity that is not only popular in its area of ​​origin, but has also spread to various regions in Indonesia. In this Real Work Lecture (KKN), the activity began with field observation methods, in-depth interviews, and FGD (Focus Group Discussion) aimed at discussing the concept of developing promotional media and business identity together with business owners in order to identify the main problems faced, especially in terms of promotional media and business identity. The main problem faced is the limitations in marketing and branding aspects, especially in terms of effective promotional media such as banners, TikTok content, business cards and strong business identities such as business plaques and websites. Through the right approach, it aims to increase business visibility, expand market reach, and ultimately increase sales turnover. The mentoring program has succeeded in increasing the managerial capabilities of MSME owners in managing modern marketing aspects. Training in the use of digital platforms such as Instagram, Tiktok and WhatsApp Business has equipped business actors with practical skills in creating attractive visual content and strategic publication scheduling. changing the business approach from being conventional to being more professional and systematic.

This research aims to analyze the conceptual relationship between brands and public relations (PR) in the context of business and socio-cultural dynamics in Indonesia. Through a literature study method with a qualitative approach, this research explores the role of PR in building brand identity, managing reputation, and facing challenges in the digital era. The study focuses on three main aspects: (1) the development of the brand concept in Indonesia which is not only a visual identity, but also a representation of values ​​and emotional relationships with consumers; (2) definition and function of PR as a strategic communication tool to create a positive image; and (3) integration of brand and PR in a communication strategy that is adaptive to local characteristics. Initial findings show that brand-PR synergy in Indonesia requires a participatory approach, message consistency, and the use of digital media, emphasizing cultural values ​​such as family and religiosity.

The competitiveness of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Indonesia often faces obstacles due to limited product packaging that fails to adequately reflect product quality, uniqueness, and brand identity. Packaging is not merely a protective container but also a strategic communication tool that influences consumer perceptions, shapes brand image, and supports market expansion. This community service program was carried out at the Banana Chips MSME “Bu Tini” in Semarang, which previously relied on simple plastic packaging without graphic design, brand logo, or product information. The main objective of this program was to assist the MSME in developing both the design and functional aspects of packaging as a strategic effort to strengthen branding, enhance product value, and improve competitiveness. The methodology applied was community-based and participatory, consisting of field observation, focus group discussions, collaborative design with the business owner, and prototype testing of new packaging. The results demonstrate that the redesigned packaging highlights a stronger visual identity through logos, colors, and slogans, while also ensuring practicality, durability, and compliance with food safety standards. Furthermore, the new packaging improved information clarity regarding composition, expiration date, and producer details, which significantly increased consumer trust in hygiene and quality. From a broader perspective, the activity fostered social transformation by raising awareness among the owner and workers about the importance of branding and professional packaging, developing new skills, and positioning the MSME as a role model for similar businesses in the community. This program implies that packaging development is not solely a visual improvement but a strategic branding instrument that can support MSMEs in achieving sustainability and greater competitiveness in local, regional, and potentially digital markets.

Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) show greater flexibility in adapting to market changes compared to large companies. They have the resilience to survive in challenging economic conditions, such as the global economic crisis or pandemic. One of the MSMEs in Indonesia, Dimsum Haochi Bites, shows strong potential in the local culinary market due to its distinctive taste and high-quality raw materials. However, its growth has been hampered by a lack of developed brand identity and limited digital marketing efforts. This community service activity aims to overcome these challenges by assisting Haochi Bites in creating a strong brand identity and expanding its digital marketing presence. The program begins with a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis to identify internal and external factors that affect business performance. Furthermore, customized business support is provided, which results in the development of a new business logo and an improved digital marketing strategy through social media. In addition, the team facilitated product innovation by introducing new topping and sauce variants. The results of this community service activity increase the competitiveness of Haochi Bites and increase its market potential in the culinary sector in Tangerang.

Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) show greater flexibility in adapting to market changes compared to large companies. They have the resilience to survive in challenging economic conditions, such as the global economic crisis or pandemic. One of the MSMEs in Indonesia, Dimsum Haochi Bites, shows strong potential in the local culinary market due to its distinctive taste and high-quality raw materials. However, its growth has been hampered by a lack of developed brand identity and limited digital marketing efforts. This community service activity aims to overcome these challenges by assisting Haochi Bites in creating a strong brand identity and expanding its digital marketing presence. The program begins with a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis to identify internal and external factors that affect business performance. Furthermore, customized business support is provided, which results in the development of a new business logo and an improved digital marketing strategy through social media. In addition, the team facilitated product innovation by introducing new topping and sauce variants. The results of this community service activity increase the competitiveness of Haochi Bites and increase its market potential in the culinary sector in Tangerang.

Developments in the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0 are increasing rapidly along with the times, especially in the economic sector. The development of the economic sector in Indonesia means that MSMEs (Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises) need strategies to brand themselves. Branding efforts can be carried out using social media platforms, namely Instagram. Instagram plays an important role as a promotional media that functions to persuade and communicate a product or service. This journal discusses the visual identity in the design of the Instagram feeds for the brand "Zamzam Kalimantan" as a portfolio of Kawakibi Digital Branding. This design uses qualitative methods based on interviews, observations, and literature studies. Through this process, designs for Instagram feeds were produced as Kawakibi's portfolio media.

Currently, businesses in Indonesia are dominated by MSME players. Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are one of the main pillars in driving the Indonesian economy. The current technological development is a good momentum in increasing the business development of MSMEs. The use of technology that is currently in demand by all circles is social media, in a business social media has a very important role in the development of a business. The business also cannot be separated from branding, because branding also plays an important role in creating a business identity. The existence of this progress requires MSMEs to adapt to existing challenges, the challenge in this era is how producers can sell or promote their various products in conventional ways and also digitalization. Competition that is quite tight in the current era of social media forces entrepreneurs to always develop their business. The purpose of this study is to implement the application of product branding and the use of social media for MSMEs in Rungkut Tengah Village during the KKNT. From this implementation, the author gets several final results, namely the creation of outputs such as the brand formed, logos, banners, packaging, google maps, and social media development.

Bina Desa is a form of community service carried out by students by plunging directly into the community environment so that students learn to socialize and know the problems faced in the environment, the PKKM Bina Desa Program is expected to be a learning medium for students and the problems faced by the community can be helped and get solutions from the knowledge applied by students. PKKM Bina Desa Tawas 2023, which is located in Penanggungan Village, Trawas District, Mojokerto Regency, has been running a work program for 3 months from August 21 - November 24, 2023, One of the work programs that I worked on was a visual identity design and branding program for Penanggungan village MSMEs, The problem experienced by owners and managers of MSMEs in Penanggungan village is the lack of education about the importance of visual identity and branding in their snack products, so that they have not been able to reach markets outside their regional area. Therefore, this visual identity and branding design program is sought to help MSMEs so that they can be better able to develop their products in a more organized manner and can reach a larger market in the future. This program has been completed on time and pursued as best as possible.  

MSMEs are supporting the nation's economy, however, some MSME actors still experience various difficulties in running a business. One of them is the difficulty in the field of marketing, in the current era of social media marketing development, several micro, small and medium enterprises, especially in the Majalaya sub-district, are facing difficulties keeping up with the times in terms of product marketing. From the survey that has been conducted, MSME actors in the Majalaya sub-district admit that they have difficulties in marketing their products and developing markets. This is due to the product's lack of awareness of the branding of MSME products where MSME actors do not highlight the identity and superiority of the products offered, thus reducing the interest of potential consumers to buy these products. As a solution to the problem above,mConduct dedication in the form of education and training regarding product branding in social media marketing.

Digital marketing is a marketing concept that is widely used in this modern era. Many manufacturers choose to use digital marketing in their marketing process because marketing goods through digital media saves energy and costs. In the process of digital marketing or digital marketing, a high creative process is needed because digital marketing requires producers to make content as attractive as possible for consumers to see and be interested in the products offered. In this case we examine how useful the application of digital marketing is in the marketing process of Bamboo MSMEs located in the Kepanjen Kidul Village, Kepanjen Kidul District, Blitar City. The method used is descriptive method with a qualitative approach. The descriptive method is used to describe the efforts of UMKM Bambu "Arunika Art" in developing their marketing with digital marketing. Meanwhile, a qualitative approach is used to explain the process of implementing digital marketing in line with the development of its business. The mentoring work program carried out for bamboo MSMEs is to utilize digital marketing, carry out digital content creation. Through a strong brand identity and an effective digital marketing strategy, bamboo MSMEs in the Kepanjen Kidul Village can experience significant empowerment.

Socialization is a very useful thing in raising and conveying positive values to individuals, the socialization process is education through individual understanding and acceptance of the connections that occur in an activity that can provide input and output feedback. Learning from the monetary crisis that occurred in Indonesia in 1997-1998 which was marked by the decline in the joints of the economy caused by the rupiah exchange rate falling or dropping drastically against the dollar exchange rate. In 1998 many big entrepreneurs fell in Indonesia, but MSMEs were still able to survive and even increased in number. In this way, UMKM contribute to supporting the economy of a country so that the existence of UMKM is highly expected in the development and progress of the country's economy and is able to absorb the number of unemployed. In this background, MSMEs can be used as a part in expanding employment opportunities, play a role in the formation of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and increase foreign exchange earnings for the country of Indonesia because its market can reach national to international. Bareng Village, Bareng District, Jombang Regency is an agricultural producing village in the form of rice, corn, sugar cane, soybeans, vegetables, chilies and others. The livelihoods of the majority of the population are farmers, self-employed, and partly in the government. UMKM problems often occur due to capital problems and licensing matters, the Business Identification Number (NIB) is the identity of a business license issued by the "Online Single Submission (OSS)" agency, helping to fulfill the legal and administrative aspects of UMKM and providing advantages in funding. Then the socialization and technical guidance was carried out by Group 1, then the output of the socialization was to help UMKM actors in the Village with the method of opening a post at the Village Hall/Village Office and the door to door method or direct permits to the homes of UMKM actors. At the same time creating a logo that is useful in brand equity as trustworthiness with the product name and symbol, providing additional value to a product. The direction of the arrow as a direction for the location has the aim of providing instructions for potential consumers and customers to find homes for UMKM actors to get products or order products.

The Coordinating Ministry for the Economy of the Republic of Indonesia (2022) reports that Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are important players in the Indonesian economy, accounting for 99% of all economic sectors. MSMEs contribute 60.5% to GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and are able to absorb 96.9% of the national workforce (Sakum & Ismamudi, 2022). But on the one hand, MSMEs experience many internal and external obstacles so they cannot maximize their business, one of which is UMKM Fiya Cake which has problems in applying visual branding, namely not having a business identity in its application. Therefore, the solution that will be provided as an effort to introduce Fiya Cake's business products is to design and create a business identity in the form of a logo, banner, and also create an NIB. The method used in this activity is the mentoring method which begins with a survey, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The results to be achieved from this service activity are the creation of branding as a form of business identity so that it will be easy to remember by the wider community.

The government promotes the obligation to own business legality as controlling economic activity in the development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). Business legality as the ownership identity of a legally operating business entity. Pakel Village, Bareng District, Jombang Regency, has various types of MSMEs that excel in agro-industry. However, the issue of business legality is still an obstacle to the progress of the Pakel Village MSMEs, namely the uneven ownership of business legality such as Business Permit Numbers (NIB), Home Industry Product Permits (PIRT), halal certification and so on. Pakel Village UMKM actors lack knowledge and awareness of the importance of business legality, starting from the requirements to the submission mechanism, the administrative process is considered complicated and time-consuming, and the management costs are expensive. The purpose of this community service activity is for Pakel Village MSMEs to know and understand how to make NIB independently through the Online Single Submission (OSS) application and assistance in submitting halal certification for free through SiHalal with the Sehati 2023 program using the business actor's statement mechanism. The method of implementing the KKNT 09 Desa Pakel group in this community service activity is to conduct socialization and mentoring on the importance of NIB ownership and halal certification with MSME Facilitators from the Ministry of Religion, Jombang Regency. The result of this community service activity is the issuance of NIB and halal certification for Pakel Village MSMEs  

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) contribute greatly to Indonesia's economic growth. To achieve a stable and sustainable economy, it is necessary to support solid macroeconomic stability. Empowerment of the real sector, especially the development of MSMEs. The purpose of this KKN activity is to provide branding and digital marketing management assistance for MSMEs in the Wonorejo Village. The partners in the thematic real work lecture program in the Wonorejo Sub-District are beginner MSMEs and have been starting a business for several months. The problems faced by MSMEs are digital marketing, packaging is still made in a simple way, and confusion about how to do branding. This problem arises because of the limited knowledge possessed by MSME actors, and the limited ability to use devices. This MSME actor mentoring activity aims to increase the knowledge and abilities of MSME actors in developing their business. MSME actors are given an understanding of the use of e-commerce and the importance of using technology in MSME product development so that they can increase income.

The problem that is often faced by MSMEs is usually the lack of building an identity from the product being sold. The problem of MSMEs in Turi Village, Blitar City also has the problem of a lack of building product identity. Many MSMEs still use packaging that looks old school, less attractive, and seems monotonous. The purpose of this activity is to provide an understanding of the importance of building an identity and product image so that it can be easily recognized by the public and able to compete with other competitors. The methods used in this community service activity are surveys, interviews, discussions, and applications. The results obtained from this community service activity are packaging development assistance starting from, packaging labels, more attractive product packaging. Provide an understanding of the importance of building a brand identity, so that in the future these MSMEs can compete with other competitors who sell similar products. Because having a good brand identity will increase Brand Awareness for that brand.

The problems faced by MSMEs are usually caused by the lack of breadth of product marketing reach. MSMEs in Karangan Village, Bareng District, also have problems in terms of product marketing. It is based on less attractive marketing. MSME players also lack creativity in marketing development. The purpose of this activity is to increase the knowledge of MSME actors about the importance of digital media for marketing and also build product identity. The methods used in this community service activity are survey and observation, interview, discussion, and application. The results obtained from this community service activity are marketing assistance activities by utilizing digital media and assistance in making attractive logo and product packaging designs, providing knowledge to MSME actors about digital media that can be used in product marketing, and can improve brand identity.

One very important aspect in the development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) is the form of granting permits for carrying out business activities, which are given by the authorities to business actors. Legality in a business also has a very important role, because it is used as an indication that the business being established is feasible and running. NIB is a business identity number used by business actors to obtain business permits and commercial or operational permits. The community service activities carried out were creating Business Identification Numbers through Online Single Submission (OSS) and marketing to several small business partners, due to a lack of understanding of gadget applications and a lack of product marketing strategies in Sukamoro Hamlet, Puncu Village. The purpose of this service is to provide understanding to the public about the importance of having business legality and product marketing. The method used is observation. The number of umkm in Sukomoro Hamlet is 11 umkm, and 1 umkm does not yet have an NIB. The UMKM was pleased and succeeded in forming an NIB so that it was able to obtain an NIB legality certificate, namely the "Salsabila" banana chips business. The results obtained from this activity were an increase in product quality and customers for "Salsabila" banana chips.