Infrared: Brand Strategy
See What You’ve Been Missing.
A no-nonsense, full-day strategic deep dive designed to re-discover, re-articulate, and re-invent your brand. In this whiteboard-intensive workshop, we strip away the fluff and clarify every critical touchpoint—inside and out—from core attributes and messaging to customer and employee experience. Walk away armed with clear insights and a razor-sharp 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.