BRANDING SERVICES
A recognizable and loved brand is one of the most valuable assets a company owns. In fact, 59% of customers prefer to buy products from brands they know.
How do you become a sought-after brand with endless sales and raving fans?
By identifying your promise to a customer or client. The challenge is communicating a clear and cohesive message to them—across all channels.
If you have a startup, you’re in a prime position to create the foundation for your brand with the right message to take on your market.
If you have an established company, you can draw from existing customer experience to clarify your message for a radically improved brand strategy and identity.
No matter what phase your brand is in—you have the what, how, and why inside you. We just need to bring all this incredible value to the surface, and package it into a clear strategic direction that will define your position in the market and grow your business long-term.
Effective brand strategy, identity design, and marketing will enable your business to:
• Differentiate from the competition
• Target the right people effectively
• Communicate your story consistently
Here’s what our business branding services look like, to help you create awareness, trust, loyalty, and advocacy for your brand.
BRAND STRATEGY
Brand Discovery
Every brand strategy begins with a deep dive to uncover key information about your business model and process. Discovery sessions are conducted to gather requirements, brainstorm, gain clarity, and understand the purpose behind what you do. We define what, how, and why so that the strategic direction and identity aligns with business goals and the needs of your customer.
Competitor Analysis
In order to stand out, you have to know what you are up against. We conduct a top-level analysis of competitors or benchmark brands in the areas of brand identity, website experience, digital marketing, and more. This important exercise identifies areas of opportunity and key differentiators for positioning your business effectively.
Target Audience
The better you understand and define your customers, the more you can tailor their experience with your brand message and marketing. We outline your general target audience demographic, then develop specific buyer personas that provide more detail about their values, lifestyle, motivations, pain points, and more. These are the exact people you want to be speaking to succinctly with all your brand communication.
Brand Voice
Are you addressing your audience in the right way? People seek authentic brands with a clear story supported by an appropriate voice and tone that speaks to them. Every brand has a unique communication style that should be consistently practiced over time. We help define a brand voice for you—a style, point of view, and personality. In addition, we show you how your brand’s tone can change depending on the type of message and the audience being targeted.
Brand Messaging
Your business needs concise and impactful brand messaging that captures the essence of your brand, and the value it provides to your consumers. Your overall story should grab attention and elicit an emotional response. We can craft a unique tagline or slogan, mission statement, value propositions, and an overall brand story you can use on your About page (which studies show is one of the most visited pages on a website). All of these brand statements allow you to work from the same playbook when defining strategies and tactics to grow your business.
Customer Journey
You have to understand the key stages of your buyer persona’s journey, from gaining awareness of your business to making an initial investment, and beyond. We identify guiding principles, tactics, and calls to action that will support the consumer’s needs at each step of the lifecycle. The mapping of this customer journey helps you define and develop content for each stage of the decision-making process. It ensures that their path leads to sales and retention.
All of the above branding services are critical to developing a lasting brand, before even thinking about the next phase: colors, fonts and graphics.