When should you seek the counsel of a brand consultant? There are several situations.
- Your company has acquired or merged with another company.
- You’re launching a new product, service or company.
- A competitor has mounted an unexpected attack on your brand.
- Your profit margin or market share is shrinking.
- Research shows that your brand is not understood by your audience.
- Customers don’t see a difference between your brand and your competitors.
- You’re having difficulty knowing what to brand and how.
- You need to define your brand purpose.
- You need to decide the relationships between parent and sub brands.
- There’s a noticeable gap between business vision and customer experience.
- Your brand expressions don’t fit your brand strategy.
- Your brand expressions lack excitement or relevance.
- Your brand expressions are confusing with too many product names, sub-brands, logos, taglines, etc.
- Your brand’s touchpoints lack consistency across media or cultural borders.
- Your creative partners need to better understand your brand.
- You need to get executive buy-in for brand programs.
- You need to completely understand your brand’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
- The meaning of your brand fluctuates as executives come and go.
- You want/need to educate your organization on the benefits of building a strong brand.
- You want to extend your brand into new product or service categories and would like to know which categories have the highest probability for success.
- You want to set up brand metrics against which to measure the success of branding endeavors.
- You want to make your brand more relevant to certain customers.
- You want to bring the brand to life at each point of customer contact.
- You want to take your brand global.
- You need to revive your brand.
- You need to ‘sell’ the brand internally.
- You need a big idea or someone to execute your big idea.
- You need an expert marketing witness in a legal dispute.
- You need an interim Chief Marketing Officer. (CMO)
- You need a research-proven celebrity endorsement strategy.
- You want to license your brand for maximum effect.
- You want to educate / train your organization on important concepts in brand management.
- You want to educate yourself on important concepts in brand management.
- You need to strategically define the story your brand can tell.
- You need to better understand those most important to your future.
- You need clarity and confidence in your brand strategy.
- You want to build a stronger emotional connection to your brand.
The Blake Project Can Help: The Brand Positioning Workshop
Branding Strategy Insider is a service of The Blake Project: A strategic brand consultancy specializing in Brand Research, Brand Strategy, Brand Licensing and Brand Education