Brand Strategy 101

A brand is more than a set of visual elements, a name, or a logo. A powerful brand is a critical business tool and asset that successful businesses nurture and invest in the same way they do their products, services, and people. Why? Because building a strong brand helps sell more of a business’ offerings to more people for more money more of the time.

Brand Research and Discovery Phase

For maximized success, a brand needs to be rooted in a strong brand strategy and deploy tactics that target desired audiences with clear business goals in mind… and do so in the right way. Our first step in the process is to build a brand foundation and outline tools that will help the brand connect more effectively with target audiences, business goals, and touch points.

A successful brand is one based in deep, practical understanding and insight of where you are currently, and where you should be going. Brand discovery is a prerequisite research and analysis phase before any brand definition or design deliverable can be created. Brand discovery allows us to understand the brand’s reality, opportunities, threats, and key nuances in its universe that are critical for success.

Deliverables

Existing Documentation, Market, and Competitor Review

One-On-One External Interviews, Aggregation and Analysis

Brand Insights and Recommendations

Brand Strategy and Positioning Phase

The brand strategy and positioning phase provides all stakeholders and interest groups with a shared understanding of what the brand stands for, both strategically and tactically. The brand deliverables are a set of tools that are drafted, fine-tuned, and finalized in collaboration with the brand team. The brand deliverables’ guiding principle is that they must easily allow for tactical, actionable recommendations that can be used to drive brand success from day one of touch point design and deployment. The elements must be easy-to-use tools that can be leveraged by management, employees, and other communications professionals to create clear, credible, compelling, and consistent touchpoint experiences for key audiences.

Deliverables

Brand Positioning, Personality, Principles, and Promise

Brand Architecture

Brand Features and Benefits

Audience Personas and Needs

Messaging and Brand Application Phase

This messaging and brand application phase takes the brand foundation work and crafts it into a practical, usable reality that relevant stakeholders can use to design, develop, and build out the brand across all touchpoints.

Messaging development will focus on how the client and its products and services should be perceived by its most valued audiences to create better awareness, deeper associations, stronger interest, faster decision-making and purchasing, and increased loyalty. The resulting messaging toolkit can be used to develop top-down communication that is on-brand and meaningful to the key audiences when applied to key touchpoints.

Deliverables

Visual Messaging

The Target Audiences

Key Touchpoints & Goals

Resource & Rollout Plan for Each Touchpoint

YOUR STRATEGIC PARTNER

Beautiful design can only be effective when built from intelligence and insights. Jackrabbit is an agency that is passionate about building your business through meaning and purpose. As your partner, we’ll work to carve out a powerful brand strategy and implementation plan with your business goals in mind.

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