Infrared: Brand Strategy

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A full-day presentation and white-board strategy session workshop to help you re-discover, re-articulate and re-invent your brand. A true deep dive that helps you clarify every aspect of where and how your brand touches both your customers and employees—from core attributes to messaging—so you can gain a true competitive advantage.

“The method is the best I have ever seen, and the thought-process nearly flawless. I believe Steve Brazell has the most powerful and effective approach to piercing through the multimedia noise to accomplish the best branding, messaging, and marketing for today’s most relevant companies.”

— Harry Miller, CEO Franchise Science | California

What it is

A One-Day Brand Clarity & Strategy Session is an expert-guided workshop that walks the company's brain trust through a proven step-by-step process to better define the business strategy (problem/solution), customer pain points, core differentiators (why someone will choose you over the competition), and articulate new clear messaging, strategies and tactics to woo new customers, create game-changing customer and employee experiences, grow the business, and pummel the competition.

What it’s not

This is not a fluff session. We're not going to talk about your spirit animal, create a brand inspiration board, or produce a bunch of irrelevant and unusable information and opinions to throw into a big thick report that you'll read once and never use.

If you're like most companies, you have more information than you can handle. We help you filter, focus, and create a clear business strategy and brand message so you can first, stand out, and second, quickly sell your differentiated benefits to your market. It's as simple and difficult as that.

What you get

The result of the session is a short, usable, Brand Clarity & Strategy Summary PowerPoint Deck that becomes a working roadmap to help guide the company's most important brand (and strategy) decisions moving forward. Key deliverables include new, clear messaging and strategy across:

  • Brand Vision, Mission and Cause

  • Brand Core Attributes

  • Brand Architecture

  • Brand Voice and Messaging

  • Real and Perceived Competitive Threats

  • Problem/Solution and Core Customer Pain Points

  • Why Customers (Really) Hire You and How You Solve Their Pain

  • What Results Customers Expect

  • What Opportunities Should You Focus On for Innovation

  • Target Market, Users, and Potential New Markets

  • Key Brand Category and Attributes

  • Brand Positioning and Statement

  • Customer and Market Belief Systems

  • Trust Factors and Key Trust Statement

  • Real and Perceived Brand Differences

  • Creating Brand Contrast from Competitors

  • Winning Customer's Hearts and Minds

  • Rational and Emotional Brand Value Proposition

  • Introductions, One Liners, Hashtags

  • Brand Persona: Colors, Images, Fonts, Look and Feel

  • Brand Experience: Key Customer Experiential Touch-Points

  • Tying in Social Media

  • Your Brand's Elevator Pitch

“Stop working with consultants in your industry—they see the world just like you do. If you want to be different (and you do), you need to see your industry in a new light with new perspectives so you can innovate successfully.”

— Steve Brazell, Founder, Hitman Inc

Sample one-day workshop.

Offsite locations are best (fewer office distractions), but it can be done on your campus, or you can bring your team to New York City. Brand Summary Document is completed within two weeks for executive review. We will iterate with you to fine-tune, then will present via video call to your executive group and/or the whole company.

09:00    Introductions and Key Objectives Discussion

09:30    Brand Strategy Presentation and Overview

12:00    Break for Lunch

12:45    Prepare for Workshop

13:00    Begin Brand Strategy Workshop

16:00    Brand Strategy Summary Overview and Final Discussion

17:00    End


Booking and fees

Fees range between $35,000-55,000 pending on location, travel time and dates, plus Business Class air, hotel and transfers. Steve Brazell books 3 to 6 months in advance. Need a session faster? Contact our office in New York City (US and Europe) or Kuwait in the Middle East for potential opportunities.