Brand & Message

This is the work that makes a business come across properly. The positioning, story, and core decisions that stop you sounding vague or looking like everyone else. It’s what sits underneath the website and keeps everything joined up.

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Brand Foundations

The decisions that define what the brand is and how it should come across.

Branding · Brand direction · Visual direction · Rebrands · Brand guidelines · Logos · typography

Positioning

Where the business sits in people’s heads and how it’s different from the rest.

Positioning · Value proposition · Audience definition · Offer structure · Competitive review

Message & Story

The words and narrative that actually carry the brand.

Messaging · Narrative development · Story discovery · Taglines & key phrases · Page messaging· Campaign ideas

Content & Copy Direction

How the message gets laid out on the site and key pages so people can scan and understand quickly.

Content structure · Sitemap & page hierarchy · Key page outlines · Copy direction · Tone of voice guides · Page copy for key pages

What does Brand & Message actually cover?

The positioning, story, and structure that decide how you show up: what you stand for, what you say, and how that gets laid out across your key pages.

Because a website is a delivery mechanism, not a message. Plenty of decent-looking sites don’t sell, and it’s almost never the design. It’s that a visitor can’t work out what you do, who it’s for, or why you’re worth more than the cheaper option. Fixing that is usually a bigger lever than a redesign.

Before a rebuild, ideally, because it’s what the site gets built around. But it’s also worth doing when you’ve changed direction, added a service that doesn’t fit the old story, started competing with a different kind of business, or noticed you’re winning the wrong sort of enquiry.

Businesses doing genuinely good, specific work who keep getting grouped in with everyone else, and priced against them. If you’ve ever finished explaining what you do and thought “that came out wrong again”, this is that problem.

A North Star statement, clear positioning, the messaging that goes with it, a content structure for your key pages, and direction on tone and brand. Written so you can actually use it, not a 40-page deck that gets opened twice.

Both. We set the direction and we write the core pages. If you’ve got someone in-house who can write, we’ll give them the structure and the direction and let them run with it. Either way you’re not left holding a strategy document and a blank page.

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