Brand Strategy

Successful Brands Drive Business Growth

Don’t let brand strategy be just a creative process.

The strongest brands aren’t built by creative logos or clever taglines. Customers move toward brands they find trustworthy – expressing a promise they understand and value.

Simply, brand strategy is about understanding market perceptions, identifying opportunities for growth and developing effective ways to get there.

How can we help?

Gelb has developed brand strategy for global and regional organizations for over a decade. Through our experience, we have developed keen insights about what it takes to make a brand become a high performance asset.

What should you expect from working with us?

  • An analytical approach to building brand strategy
  • An inclusive process that appreciates the knowledge you have about your business
  • A brand strategy built on data-driven drivers of brand equity and brand trust
  • A means to engage executives and stakeholders to embracing the brand strategy
  • Above all, a transparent, collaborative approach to ensure brand management remains yours

How do we do it?

  • Determining the sources of brand equity through our Brand Trust model
  • Measuring Employee Alignment
  • Utilizing message testing combining qualitative and quantitative techniques
  • Assessing the differential effect your product and service brands have with Conjoint Analysis
  • Translating service standards into action through Experience Mapping
  • Aligning brand communications through Message Mapping
  • Prioritizing business, sales and marketing efforts with our SMART assessment tool
  • Concept Testing new design elements, like logos, to ensure they fit the brand strategy
  • Documenting the brand strategy in a meaningful way through a Brand Book
  • Overseeing a successful launch through our Interim CMO contracting services
  • Monitor your fulfillment of the brand promise through our Experience Dashboard
  • Using a Brand Dashboard to communicate effectiveness to senior leadership

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