We know how overwhelming building a brand can be, and that’s why we’re here to guide you every step of the way.
We take the guesswork out of growing your brand and, with creative thinking and strategic analysis, give you the tools to help you confidently stand out from your competition with a powerfully-crafted brand, thoughtfully strategised and designed to communicate your passion, purpose and mission.
Our 3 stage journey together begins with strategy:
Building brands with heart
Define
PHASE 1
Our first goal is to define and create an authentic and compelling story that shapes people’s perception of your business, delivers your core message and differentiates you from others. We ask what problems you solve, what makes you different, and why people will care.
By positioning you as an authoritative voice, a one-of-a-kind business, you can create trust and connection with your desired audience. We want you top-of-mind in your market!
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Whether you are expanding your product or service range or launching a new brand, we offer workshops tailored to your current needs.
• Naming workshops: We explore names from every angle – rigorously researching against competitors and trademarks until we find the name that has the right ‘fit’ for your business.
• Brand workshops: We pair business strategy with a design thinking approach to uncover insights into how your brand can develop and the actions needed to evolve internally and externally, all with your business and consumer at heart.
• Customer Journey Workshops: Understanding the customer journey is one of the most crucial elements in your business. By evaluating your current customer journey, pain points, decision points, and ‘Moments of Joy’, we can provide insights and suggest ‘value add’ improvements for the future.
• Creative Brainstorming: If you are seeking clarity across any part of your business and need a new, fresh perspective or just want to hash over a creative business idea… we can help by giving you our time and creative brains in order to help you get ‘unstuck’ or solve a specific challenge.
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Whether you have a new idea for a business or need to take your brand to the next level, Brand Roadmap is a top-line evaluation and roadmap aiming to set out the best direction for your brand, taking into account your business’s unique circumstances.
From the roadmap report you will receive, you’ll get a plan of action for how your brand and visual identity could be developed.
The Brand Roadmap is the preliminary process of developing a full strategy and visual identity, and it’s broken up into three parts:
Brand workshop: We will conduct a short workshop where we will ask you a series of questions to understand your business from your point of view and what your big picture is.
Research & Development: Separately from our work with you, we conduct a desktop audit of your industry, audience, competitors and market landscape. From insights gained, we develop insights into the best strategic approach for your brand.
Report Presentation: This is a complete presentation of your roadmap. We go through each step and section of the roadmap outlining all of your brand requirements, what you need, why you need it and how you’ll get there. This gives clear insights into your current state and the possibilities but also intuitions and direction on which approach to take with your ‘visual expression’.
The Brand Roadmap is a powerful springboard to get clarity and understanding of what’s required to build a successful brand and the steps to get you there.
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Unlike the Brand Roadmap, the Brand Strategy Blueprint is your robust ‘plan of action’, powerhouse tool and guide. It’s a tangible plan and essential business framework that lays the internal foundation so you can build, shape and share an authentic and differentiated brand in the future.
Through deep-dive workshops, audits and research, the Brand Strategy Blueprint clearly defines and sets the rules on your brand’s DNA foundation, positioning in the market right through to its human personality and communication framework.
This powerful and extensive document will quickly guide you and anyone you invest in (employees, copywriters, web developers, social media experts etc.) to help you with your business and articulate the heart and soul of your brand. This is the foundation of your brand that guides your decision-making and enables your team to execute compelling marketing communications. Moreover, no more explaining what your brand is all about repeatedly!
Your Brand Strategy Blueprint communicates the difference you offer in the market. It is crafted from the ground up and represents the entire essence of the brand, setting the scene to build your visual identity that will bring the brand to life.
Elevate
PHASE 2
Once your brand strategy has been defined, we leverage this and start to design your unique brand identity.
We will elevate you by intuitively creating an authentic image that communicates clearly why your customers need and desire your product or service.
We will create a visual brand that tells your story and creates emotion, desire and curiosity to attract the right attention and resonate with your audience.
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Our first step in the creative process is to bring your brand to life in its visual form. We take the opportunity to explore different approaches that support your brand strategy previously defined.
At this stage, you will be presented with the overarching concept, mood boards, typographic exploration, logo options, colour palettes, secondary graphics and overall look and feel across different modalities.
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Once you choose a route that resonates with you the most and gives you ‘that feeling’, we refine and expand, bringing it to life across a fuller set of brand assets.
At this stage, we may suggest a photo shoot or the development of specific assets defined in your brief. You are involved at every stage of the journey with weekly check-ins to share, connect and maintain the energy between us.
Impact
PHASE 3
We will provide you with a brand toolkit that enables you to create powerful brand content that speaks directly to your audience and creates the impact and transformation you desire.
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You will be armed with a brand guide and asset toolkit ready to take your product or service out to the world, deeply aligned with who you are, heart and mind. Depending on your launch requirements, we can deliver or partner with the best creatives in the market to deliver everything from websites, pitch decks, launch collateral, branded photography, social media content or anything else required for the launch.
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So, what happens when we hand you your unique brand tool kit? What’s next? You’ll be excited and ready to start marketing your new brand out there.
You’ve got the words and passion, but... you’re not a designer, and the thought of trying to design a banner or ad makes you sweat with anxiety and fill you with dread... or you simply don’t have the time… it can all be very overwhelming.
Fear not! We can support you by ensuring that your marketing channels deliver your messages and stories powerfully and engage your customers immediately.
We can discuss your brand launch and further support at this stage; whether this means monthly retainers or a project-by-project basis, we will work out the best, most viable solution for you and your business.
Are you ready to invest in your brand to grow your business, maximise your impact in the world, and increase revenue? Book a 30-minute discovery call with us, and let’s discuss how we can help you.