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Sound Brand Strategy. Strong Brand Positioning.
Starting a marketing campaign for your wine or spirits brand?
First, you need a brand strategy, and that starts with a compelling story. Too many wine and spirits companies sound the same to consumers, let alone to your own sales team. In a sea of similar brands with vanilla branding, how does your brand compete for media coverage, shelf space, and consumer buzz?
Solution: Benson’s Brand Messaging Plan
We research your winery or distillery, understand your category and how you compete. We moderate a series of meetings with your senior team to capture and then brainstorm, refine, and document what is unique about your story. We capture and sharpen your story in clear, concise language.
In other words, we create the narrative for your wines, spirits, and company. But this effort doesn’t just gather dust on a shelf.
Your Brand Marketing Blueprint
We deliver a messaging blueprint, a useful document arming your sales and marketing teams with:
- Positioning Statements: A bold, differentiated statement with supporting points and a “why they should care” summary
- Brand Essence Wheel: Identifying your brand’s personality and brand values
- Key Brand Benefits: Core advantages repurposed for your marketing and sales presentations
- Core words: Four to five words used repeatedly and consistently
- The Story: Your unique legend/founding story
- Future Vision: Milestones–in finance, sales, marketing, distribution–that will define success in the next decade
- Elevator Pitch: The 10-second summary of your company you tell a stranger
- Boiler Plate: The “About Us” paragraph capping your PR releases
Who’s the Brand Messaging Plan Right For?
This marketing service is best suited for wine and spirits companies that need:
- An outside marketer’s perspective on how to frame or create a “story"
- A sharper definition of points of difference
- A story that rationalizes the brand’s architecture of SKUs
- A set of communications guidelines that supports growth goals over the next 2-5 years
Because many of our client engagements start with the Brand Messaging Plan, the service is a great way to learn how we work together. It’s a low-risk on-ramp to a larger marketing activation.
Our Process
Step 1. Develop the Foundation: Benson researches your positioning and packaging, reviews existing collateral and PR materials and coverage, and audits your digital presence, as well as the category in which you compete.
Step 2. Brainstorm Ideas: Benson conducts internal brainstorming meetings to refine themes, ideas, and directions.
Step 3. Strategy Meeting: We moderate a 4-5 hour strategy brainstorming meeting with your senior management offsite.
Step 4. Draft 1: Benson summarizes findings in an initial draft for client feedback.
Step 5. Iterations: We exchange ideas and refine the findings document with you.
Step 6. Finalize/Customize Document: We present our final document, then condense it into bit-sized slide decks customized for your 3-tier sales team, DTC team, and others.
Great marketing campaigns start with the right marketing strategy, starting with a great brand story. We’ve conducted our Brand Messaging Plan for well-known companies, categories, and famous winegrowing regions.
Let's Create a Unique Position for Your Brand.
Contact Benson Marketing for a free consultation.
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