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Brand strategy: settling what we actually say

Campaigns, content and a store can all be done well and still not add up to anything, if nobody has settled who the brand is and what it promises. We put that on paper: who you are speaking to, what sets you apart, in what voice, and at which touchpoints. The result is a document every contractor then works from, including ones outside our agency.

One document for every contractor

Your agency, your marketing team and an outside designer all work from the same strategy. That is its whole point.

We start with what is, not what should be

The first stage is a review of your communications, customer service and materials, before any decision on the promise is made.

Brand platform: target audience, promise and brand voice Meta Business Partner from €740 net for a strategy
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Starting point

How to tell a brand strategy is missing

Four symptoms. Each one gets mistaken for an execution problem and gets fixed by changing agency.

Every channel says something different

The ad promises the lowest price, the website talks about quality, the salesperson talks about flexibility. Each one sounds fine alone, together they build no association at all.

Endless arguments over creative

Proposal after proposal gets rejected, with no way to say why beyond it does not fit. Without a written brand character, the judgement stays a matter of one decision-maker's taste.

You compete on price alone

When there is no other answer to what sets you apart, a discount is what is left. It is the most expensive form of missing strategy, and it shows up directly in margin.

Changing agency changed nothing

The third contractor in a row, the same result. That usually signals the problem was never in the execution, it is that nobody ever had a clear brief to work from, because there was nowhere to get one.

Definition

What is a brand strategy?

A brand strategy is a written decision on who the brand speaks to, what it promises, in what voice, and at which customer touchpoints. It is not a values statement to hang on a wall, it is a brief that everyone creating anything on the brand's behalf works from: the agency, the marketing team, a designer, a salesperson.

Target audience

Exactly who the message needs to reach, and what that person cares about before buying. Without this, every decision after it is made in a vacuum.

Brand character and archetype

What traits the brand should be identified with. This is the part that turns an argument about taste into a conversation about whether something matches what was agreed.

Brand promise

The value or experience a customer can expect every single time. A promise the service cannot keep is worse than no promise at all.

Brand voice and touchpoints

How the brand talks, and in every place customers actually meet it: advertising, the website, packaging, a call with support, an invoice.

How we work

Four stages, usually six to ten weeks

The exact schedule depends on the size of the company and the scope, and we give it to you before signing the contract.

  1. 1

    Analysis of what is

    2-3 weeks

    A review of your communications, customer service, materials and what competitors are saying.

  2. 2

    Trends and competitors

    1-2 weeks

    The Polish market and international ones, choosing the trends that genuinely apply to your business over the coming year, not a list of buzzwords.

  3. 3

    Workshop with leadership

    1 day

    The most important day of the whole project. We settle the promise, the character, and what the brand will not do. Without leadership at the table, this day has no point.

  4. 4

    Document and roll-out

    2-3 weeks

    The brand platform, voice, touchpoint map and briefs for the teams executing it. Plus a meeting where we walk through the document with the people who will use it.

Client reviews

Before you order a strategy: how clients rate us

A strategy is a document whose value only becomes clear a year into rolling it out, so the choice of contractor gets made without proof. These three ratings were left by clients on public platforms, and each can be read there in full.

4.96 / 5

weighted average of 224 reviews across three platforms. Clients gave them, and each site below links to the profile with the full text of every review.

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Certificates and partnerships

Why a working agency writes the strategy

A strategy nobody knows how to turn into a campaign is an essay. We write ours where it then has to be worked from.

Google Premier Partner

Google, top tier of the Google Partners programme

A status awarded based on client results. In a brand strategy it lets us check whether the promise you want to make actually matches what people are looking for, before it goes onto every piece of material.

Meta Business Partner

Meta, partner programme

A brand voice is tested fastest on social media, because the reaction comes back within hours. Access to Meta's tools lets us trial a message on a small sample before it becomes the standard.

HubSpot Certified Partner

HubSpot, partner programme

In a review of customer service, what happens after an enquiry says the most: how long a reply takes, how many contacts get lost, and at which stage. Working on the sales system lets us measure that, instead of only talking about it.

Doubts before working together

Business strategy: four things we hear

„We know our own brand, we do not need a document”

Leadership usually does. The problem starts with the third person down the chain who is writing a post or designing a leaflet and has nowhere to get that knowledge from. The strategy exists so nobody has to re-explain it every single time.

„That is for big brands”

The opposite is true. A big brand has a department that keeps this knowledge alive. A small company has one marketing person and three outside contractors, so it is exactly there that missing written decisions cost the most.

„That is a lot of money”

It is less than a quarter of campaigns run with no shared message, and that quarter happens every year somewhere. But we say it plainly: below a few thousand a month in ad spend, a strategy rarely pays for itself, and then we advise against it.

„We already had a document like this”

Then we start by reading it, not by writing a new one. If the decisions in it still hold, it is often cheaper to add touchpoints and briefs to it than to order the whole thing again from scratch.

Pricing

What a brand strategy costs

One item: business strategy from €740 net. Marcin Kądziela runs it, from the analysis to the finished document.

Brand platform

Business strategy

Working out how the brand should communicate going forward: target audience, archetype and character, brand promise, brand voice, and a map of customer touchpoints.

from €740 net
  • Target audience and persona
  • Brand character and archetype
  • Brand promise and voice
  • Touchpoint map
  • Briefs for the teams executing it

A new brand or a brand with a history

If the company has been selling for years and the question is why marketing is not scaling along with sales, the first stage carries the most weight: the review of what is. It shows whether the problem sits in communication or in service, and quite often it turns out most of the money is sitting in service and retention, not in campaigns.

If the brand is just starting out, or changing how it operates, the weight shifts to the workshop. There is not yet much to review, and every decision made at the start carries for years, because it keeps coming back in every material and every sales conversation.

The strategy is run by Marcin Kądziela, and that is deliberate: a strategy written by someone who was not in the room for the workshop is a document about the company, not for it. That is why we do not subcontract this work, and why we take on a limited number of these projects at a time.

Boundaries of the service

How is brand strategy different from marketing strategy and from a logo design?

Short answer

Brand strategy settles who the brand is and what it promises: audience, character, promise, voice, touchpoints. Marketing strategy says how and where to communicate it and for what budget, and a logo is the visual answer to a question brand strategy is what actually answers.

A brand strategy starts from how the company runs today, because a promise with no backing in service works against the brand. That is why the first stage is a review, not a workshop.

Who the brand is, how to communicate it, and what it looks like: three questions, in this order

This is the right service

  • Every channel says something different, and nobody can say why.
  • Arguments over creative come down to one decision-maker's taste.
  • You compete on price alone, because there is no other answer to what sets you apart.

Start with something else

  • The message is clear, what is missing is a plan with a budget and a calendar: that is marketing strategy.
  • You know who the brand is, and the logo has not kept up: that is logo design.
  • The question is about the store, margin and assortment: that is e-commerce consulting.
Other services

What else we can do for you

A campaign is not just media buying: creative, content and measurement sit alongside it. Below are the pages that most often join the same conversation as business strategy.

Marketing strategy

Channels, budget, a calendar and metrics for the next twelve months.

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Logo design

We design logos for companies in Krakow and across Poland: a brand mark ready for the web and for print.

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E-commerce consulting

We settle the decisions that decide whether a store makes money: margin after returns, assortment, platform, marketplaces, foreign markets.

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FAQ

Business strategy: questions before you decide

What is a brand strategy?

It is a written decision on who the brand speaks to, what it promises, in what voice, and at which customer touchpoints. It covers the target audience, brand character and archetype, brand promise, and a touchpoint map. It takes the form of a brief that anyone creating anything on the brand's behalf works from, not a set of values to hang on a wall.

How much does a brand strategy cost?

Business strategy starts from €740 net. The final quote depends on the scale of the business, the industry and the scope, and we give it after the first conversation, before signing the contract.

How is brand strategy different from marketing strategy?

Brand strategy answers who we are and what we say. Marketing strategy answers how and where we say it and for what budget, and takes the form of an action plan with a budget and a calendar. The order only runs one way: a plan built on an unsettled message falls apart by the second quarter, because every channel ends up interpreting it its own way.

How long does building a strategy take?

Usually six to ten weeks: two to three for analysis, one to two for trends and competitors, a day for the leadership workshop, and two to three weeks for the document and walking through it. We give you the exact schedule before signing the contract.

Who runs the project?

Marcin Kądziela, and we do not subcontract it. The same person runs the analysis, the workshop and writes the document, because a strategy written by someone who was not in the room for the workshop is a document about the company, not for it. For that same reason we take on a limited number of these projects at once.

Do we then have to order our campaigns from you?

No. The document is yours, written so it can be worked from with any contractor, which is why it includes briefs for execution teams and questions worth asking them. The price of the strategy does not depend on what you order afterwards.

Brand strategy: what is worth knowing

A brand promise needs to be backed by service

The most common strategy mistake is a promise the company cannot keep day to day. A promise of an instant response, alongside a two-day reply time on email, works against the brand harder than making no promise at all. That is why we start a strategy with a review of customer service, not with the workshop.

Why a strategy needs a touchpoint map

A brand is the sum of every encounter with it, not just its ads. An invoice, a shipping notification, how a phone call is answered, and a complaints form say just as much about a brand as a campaign does, and cost far less to fix. A touchpoint map points to the ones that can be changed straight away.

Why an archetype is not decoration

A written brand character is the only tool that turns an argument about taste into a conversation about whether something matches what was agreed. Without it, judging creative comes down to one decision-maker's preference, and every change in that role starts communication over from scratch.

Brand strategy in Krakow and remotely

Our office is in Krakow, and that is where we run workshops with leadership, because it is the one stage where having every decision-maker at the same table genuinely changes the outcome. The remaining stages run on analysis and conversations, so we run them for companies across Poland and abroad.

Let's start with what you promise customers today

On a free call we go through what your materials actually say, and whether they say the same thing. Sometimes the mismatch is obvious within fifteen minutes, and that is already an answer.

Four places where a company makes a customer a promise, with one of them promising something different from the rest
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