Build your brand – GROW YOUR BUSINESS
Build Your Brand – Grow Your Business
Strategy · Thinking · Advice ·Direction
At B is for Brand we offer strategic advice for businesses at a point of change. We help you understand your brand, decide what it needs next and make the right things happen.
Becoming a brand-led business not only sharpens your message but it also brings focus.
Your brand affects far more than your logo or marketing. It shapes what you say, how your business operates, the experience you give your customers and the decisions made by your team, your suppliers—and increasingly, your AI tools.
WHAT CAN WE HELP YOU WITH?
Developing your Brand Strategy
We don’t act as your marketing agency, we act more like a member of your team. We bring the thinking, direction and experienced guidance that help you make better decisions, brief suppliers properly and avoid wasting time, effort and money...
We’ll help you get clear about what your brand stands for, who it needs to connect with and how it should guide your business.
You’ll receive a concise, useable Brand Strategy—not a hefty document that sits in a drawer—along with practical guidance about what to do next.
Guiding an important brand project
If you’re developing a new brand, refreshing an existing one, creating a website, producing a brand book or redesigning your customer experience, we can guide the project on your behalf.
We can help you decide what’s needed, write the brief, appoint and manage the right creative suppliers and keep the work aligned with the bigger picture. You can get on with running your business, knowing that someone experienced is asking the right questions and driving the project forward.
Writing a Brand Strategy is the key thing you need to do to move forward and in this 60 minute session, we explain more about how and why it’s the missing piece in your business.
Providing brand building advice
Sometimes you don’t need another person on your payroll or an agency doing everything for you. You need an experienced person by your side Someone who understands the business, helps you think things through and gives you confidence that you’re making the right call.
We provide strategic advice and ongoing brand guidance to business owners and teams when they need it.
For established businesses, this can also include helping you build a stronger, more valuable brand asset as you grow or prepare for a future merger, acquisition or exit.
What are you buying?
Clarity, direction and experienced support.
Consultancy doesn’t always result in a physical output. Sometimes the most valuable outcome is knowing what to do, what not to do and where to invest next. But where something does need to be created, we can help you turn the strategy into a clear, well-managed project.
The result is a business that is more consistent, makes better decisions and gets better work from its people, suppliers and AI tools.
If that’s the kind of support you need, let’s have a conversation.
Curious about how to get started?
If you’re not ready for one-to-one consultancy, The Brand-Led Business is a short, three-session course designed to help you understand what a strong brand really is and how to use yours to make better business decisions.
Your first step is our free webinar:
The Hidden Reason You’re Not Getting What You Want From AI
The reason AI doesn’t always produce work that sounds or feels right is often the same reason businesses waste time and money on inconsistent marketing: there isn’t a clear Brand Strategy guiding the decisions.
In this practical 60-minute session, you’ll discover:
- what it means to become a brand-led business;
- why Brand Strategy is the missing piece for many businesses;
- how to make more confident and consistent decisions;
- how to align your team, suppliers and AI tools; and
- where you can make immediate improvements to your brand.
You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of what a brand is, what your own brand needs and how becoming more brand-led can save you time, effort and money.
READY TO JOIN Brand School?
What if you could have your own branding consultant with 25 years of brand and marketing experience by your side, every step of the way as you build your brand and grow your business?
Well, now you can!
STEP 1: Sign yourself or a member of your marketing team up for Brand School.
STEP 2: Learn how to be a brand-led business straight away.
Membership of Brand School costs just £75 per month and there is no minimum commitment.
Take the first step today.
WRITE A BRAND STRATEGY!
This is our number one tip for growing your business.
So why’s it so important?
If you’re a brand-led business, your business decision-making, marketing, messaging and internal activity will be guided by what’s written in your Brand Strategy document.
Brand (as we’re sure you know) is absolutely not just about your logo, but it’s also not just about your wording, your tone, your imagery, your style OR your content themes.
There are many, many moving parts to building a strong brand. Success lies in the finer detail and in having a solid strategy to guide everything you do.
If you’re a brand-led business, you stand out from the crowd. You don’t have to worry about competitors and you don’t have to spend as much time, effort and money attracting attention to your business. Your business has clarity, consistency, creativity and control.
Who doesn’t like the sound of that?
Brand is about how your business comes across, not only to your customers, but to all of your audiences including your staff.
Business decision making…things like who you hire, what products and services you deliver and what kind of experience your customer gets should ALL be guided by your Brand Strategy.
Miss this vital part of business planning and the result is a feeling of being overwhelmed, confused and like your time, money and effort is going to waste because your marketing’s not working.
We don’t want that to be your brand story and with us by your side, it won’t be.
join brand school
Our Brand School membership is a guided membership designed to help you build the knowledge, skills and confidence you need to build your brand and grow your business.
What’s in the membership?
A monthly support package including:
- A brand & marketing audit of your business
- Weekly emails with advice and guidance to keep you on track
- Fortnightly ‘drop-in’ group calls to talk through your brand issues
Monthly Zoom workshops, where we focus on a topic and you can get together with other small business owners and marketing professionals to network, collaborate and chat about your brand building challenges
Access to the private Brand School private community, where you can get feedback on your brand building projects and bounce your ideas off not only us, but your fellow small business owners and marketing professionals too
A library of resources, including videos, audio files, worksheets, templates and guides, to help you take action and make real progress
The focus is on taking small, achievable steps towards improving your brand.
Even small changes can make a BIG difference.
All of this for just £75 per month!