Brand Strategy Consulting
Positioning that helps you create and sustain a competitive advantage.
Brand Positioning: How Premium Brands Thrive in the Marketplace
Most business owners know what makes their product or service unique and why people should buy it. But they often struggle to communicate their value to the people they help most.
What's the problem?
Here it is: the business's BRAND isn't strong enough to get the audience's attention.
In other words, the brand isn't showing the audience what makes the business different or why they should buy.
So, the audience does nothing.
As a result, a pattern emerges: the business keeps trying one lead generation tactic after another, but the results are disappointing no matter what they do.
This is a common problem because most business owners are passionate about what they do and how they do it. They also believe others will feel the same way. So, they jump straight into marketing but end up discouraged when their prospective customers don't respond.
For your marketing efforts to make an impact on the audience, you must "walk the walk and talk the talk".
In business terms, this means you must look like an expert, talk with authority, and deliver on customers' high expectations.
To do this, you must build a brand that turns your product or service into something people want to buy.
The purpose of a brand is to make your product or service more attractive in the eyes of the target market.
Why Most Digital Marketing Doesn't Work
Most businesses use a typical marketing strategy to get customers. It looks something like this:
But there are several problems with this approach, among them:
This means your audience sees your product or service as just another option with no unique qualities.
You may get some results, but marketing and advertising are not as efficient or effective as they could be. You also face more price pressure because you haven’t shown people how different you are.
We are a brand strategy consulting agency that can help you solve this problem.
It's what happens BEFORE the sale that makes the sale.
While most businesses use the approach above, premium brands build a customer experience.
Why is the customer experience so important?
Because consumers need as many as 8 touchpoints before they buy.
A touchpoint is any interaction consumers have with your business—a visit to your website, a social media post, a review, an advertisement, or other contacts. To make the most impact with each touchpoint, you must design a customer experience for prospective buyers at each customer journey stage.
People must get to know you. Then, they must decide if what you offer is best for them.
Unfortunately, most businesses try to sell before the customer is ready to buy. That's because they underestimate what it takes to earn a sale.
A brand strategy helps you create a customer journey that makes your business more competitive and enhances the perceived value of your product or service in the eyes of your target audience.
Brand Strategy Consulting Process
Together, we position your brand to compete and attract more customers in your target audience. Click on the tabs below to learn more about how it works.
In this first step, we explore your goals, offers, competitors, and target market.
This helps us identify the next steps you need to take to get the traction you want.
Includes:
- Brand identity design
- Pricing structure
- Competitive analysis
- Target audience segmentation
Using the information we gathered in step one, we'll know how to align your messaging with the types of customers you want. This also tells us which marketing activities will make the most impact. You can implement these on your own or with our help.
This step includes:
- Create irresistible offer for unique positioning
- Content development
- Packaging and other brand assets
Once we have established your brand identity, offers, and profitable market segments, it's time to broadcast your message.
In this step, we develop a marketing plan to promote your brand. Includes:
- Website design
- Search engine optimization
- Social media content planning
- Content marketing
- Blogging and video
We'll make sure everything is working and improve on what isn't.
Support includes:
- Email and phone contact (3 months to 1 year, based on level of service)
- Tracking and measuring ROI with key performance indicators
- Full-service follow-up: we don't leave you hanging on anything we do.
FAQs
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Are you ready to build a brand your audience will love?
Schedule a free brand strategy consultation to find out how we can help you reach the people you help most.