B2B brand development
Create a foundation for the pillars of your success
Create a foundation for the pillars of your success
Your brand is more than just a logo - it is an important tool for achieving your sales targets. If you want to realize the full potential of your brand, you need a solid foundation.
What are the benefits of a brand strategy?
Growth independent of the economy
You turn your brand into a sales tool that actively contributes to achieving your corporate goals. This opens up new business opportunities, strengthens your position in the market - and increases the value of your company in the long term.
Stronger customer loyalty
They make your brand tangible and create trust - the basis for long-term customer relationships. Because people don't remember functions but feelings, stories that trigger something in them. It's not just about what you do, but why and how.
Greater range
You clearly differentiate yourself from the competition and position yourself exactly where your target groups are. In this way, you gain new leads, increase your visibility - and strengthen your presence on the market.
Direct recognizability
A strong story and concise appearance ensure that your brand remains recognizable. You present your added value emotionally and use your visual identity in a targeted way to stand out from the competition.
Targeted customer approach
You gain clarity about your target groups and find the right approach for different customer groups. This allows you to tailor your portfolio precisely to their needs and ensure that your customers feel understood - from the very first moment.
Optimized processes
A well thought-out strategy brings structure - and structure brings efficiency. With a clear structure, you can implement your strategy faster and more efficiently - with long-term effects.
This is how your brand strategy is created.
Strategic workshop
The knowledge is in your company. With structured workshops and innovative design thinking tools, we ask the decisive questions and create the basis for your strategy.
▶ You will already receive initial, directly implementable recommendations for action for successful brand development.
Brand Manual
We use the results of the workshop to form a clear, tangible strategy - set out in the brand manual. This serves as a guide for all stakeholders and makes your brand consistent and applicable.
▶ Here you receive precise text modules (positioning, vision, mission, etc.) that can be immediately implemented in your communication channels.
Brand world
On the basis of the strategy, we design a brand world that visually encapsulates your identity, values and messages.
▶ Here you get an image-text mechanism that uniquely stages your added value, strengthens the emotional connection to your target groups and creates unmistakable recognizability.
Internal anchoring
Your solid foundation is in place - now it just needs to be filled with life. Without committed employees, your story will be ineffective.
▶ This is where you get your team on board, translate corporate goals into individual objectives and turn your employees into active co-creators.
HAKAMA: From inconspicuous to unforgettable
Engineering services and products with the client's logo offer hardly any visual material for effective corporate communication. Many companies face this challenge because their solutions disappear as components in their customers' products.
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Thanks to a concise key visual - the origami made of thin sheet metal - the aesthetic strengths and the high level of expertise in thin sheet metal processing were brought to the point. The result is an unmistakable visual identity that impressively showcases the added value and reflects the quality of the products at the highest level.
OUR STRATEGIC WORKSHOP
The central topics for your successful brand building
Start with the basics and ask yourself the crucial questions:
- Who are you?
- Why does your company exist?
Find a clear, concise answer that gets to the heart of your core competence and the added value of your company. Because only those who can clearly define themselves will be clearly perceived by others.
Define clear marketing objectives for short, medium and long-term periods to ensure a long-term strategic focus.
Put yourself in the position of your target groups:
- Who are they?
- What do they need?
- What expectations and fears do they have?
- What information and offers are they already aware of on the market?
Then go one step further: find out which key performance indicators (KPIs) are really decisive for your customers. Only if you know how you measure your success will you be able to address them in a targeted manner.
Identify how the company's portfolio of offers relates to the needs of the target groups and outline which offers could be particularly relevant to sales in the future.
Analyze how your products and services are perceived by customers:
- Do you address their challenges?
- Do your customers recognize themselves in your offer?
Learn how to translate your portfolio in such a way that your customers feel understood - exactly where their pain lies.
Identify key competitors and analyze which competitors the company has to stand up to in particular.
After you have analyzed your competitors, ask yourself the crucial question:
- What makes us truly unique?
Identify your real selling points (USPs) and align them with the KPIs of your target groups. That sounds simple, but it's the real challenge: your true USPs often lie not in technical aspects, but in soft facts that work on a deeper, emotional level.
Think about which projects have achieved outstanding results and have been of particular benefit to your customers.
Think about which projects are suitable as lighthouses, as they can be presented in a striking and vivid way.
Make sure you always think from the customer's perspective. A project that has brought your company a particularly high turnover will hardly impress your customers - it is the added value that they derive from it that is decisive.
Describe the phases of the customer journey from the discovery of the company to conversion and include touchpoints to identify possible optimization potential.
Evaluate the current marketing channels and determine which are considered critical to success in the future. Consider trends and innovations in the marketing landscape.
How the Brand manual your success supports
An essential tool for sales too
The brand manual is your common thread for consistent and effective communication across all channels. It ensures that your brand is clearly positioned and that all content is communicated in a targeted manner. The brand manual plays a central role in sales in particular. It defines your story and sales arguments so that you always have the right messages to hand - perfectly tailored to every communication situation.
Directly applicable content for all media
The contents of the brand manual can be implemented immediately. Whether for website texts, sales presentations or social media posts - the formulated messages can be integrated directly into your communication channels. In short: your brand manual ensures clarity, consistency and maximum impact - both internally and externally.
Individual stories for every target group
The brand manual goes one step further: it contains customized stories for each of your target groups. This means that the core messages are perfectly tailored to the needs and expectations of your customers. Each target group receives exactly the arguments that convince them - in a language they understand.
Brand world as a strategic advantage
A brand world is an image-text mechanism that visually sums up your identity, values and messages. In a market where products are becoming more and more interchangeable and the flood of information is increasing, a unique brand world is the key to being remembered.
Why does the brand world make the difference?
Increasing the value of the company
You receive a professional and high-quality appearance, which in turn reflects the quality of your products.
Differentiation
You stand out visibly from your competitors.
Recognizability
Your brand stays in people's minds and is found more quickly.
Stronger customer loyalty
Connecting emotions - a strong brand world creates trust and closeness.
Increased visibility
In a crowded market environment, you will be perceived more attractively and more quickly.
Clarity and simplicity
A brand world conveys your message at first glance and leads the customer to the right decision.
What is NOT a brand world?
A photo of your company building
Your location is important to you - but not to your customers. What counts is the benefit you offer.
An overloaded product collage
An image alone does not convey a message, it merely shows that your product exists. But why should a customer choose it? What makes it special? What added value does it offer?
Quality, competence and reliability ...
These terms are standard and say nothing - everyone claims they do! Instead, think about what quality really means for your customers.
Simply your logo
A logo is an important part of your brand - but it alone does not create a brand world. Only a well thought-out visual and linguistic design can turn a logo into a tangible, recognizable brand world that appeals to your target group emotionally.
How is a brand world created?
High-quality presentation of added value
Instead of simply presenting your products, show what benefits they offer - and do it in a way that sticks. Your strengths become tangible for customers. FOR EXAMPLE: If your product is particularly light, show it creatively - make it float in the air.
Consistency
Consistency in layout, style and tonality across all channels creates recognition and trust. If every detail remains consistent, the multiplier effect unfolds: all channels work together in synergy and lead the customer to make a purchase decision.
A strong key visual
A key visual is a central graphic element that makes your brand unmistakable. It makes your message understandable at first glance, remains in the memory and ensures recognition.
Emotional attachment
Products are important - but people don't just buy products, they also look for long-term partnerships. Show people, faces and emotions. This creates closeness and trust.
MAXIMATOR:How a strong brand world new doors opens
MAXIMATOR GmbH is the global market and technology leader for high-pressure and testing technology as well as for hydraulics and pneumatics. The company serves customers from very different industries. A clear positioning was sought that would unite the different needs of the target groups.
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MAXIMATOR stands for quality. And quality means high pressure. High pressure was identified as a common solution for a wide range of challenges. The strengths of MAXIMATOR were conveyed emotionally and purposefully through a precise image-text mechanism - with a focus on the pains of the end user. One example? Instant coffee production: thanks to high-pressure pumps, perfect granulation is achieved - crucial for full aroma and perfect taste consistency. The new, convincing brand presentation at the food trade fair brought MAXIMATOR into direct contact with Nestlé - and opened up new business opportunities.
Turn your brand into a growth driver!
I am Stefan Weder, Managing Director at Blaupause , and I support you in building a strong brand with structure, strategy and charisma.