Close your brand gaps with an integrated brand strategy.

If there's a gap between your current and desired brand perceptions, developing an integrated brand strategy can help you close it. Our branding process will help you identify the words, images and experiences to influence how customers perceive your brand.

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A big arch is placed on a small hill with trees. The arch has a gap in the middle, which the crane will close with a missing piece.
DEFINE YOUR BRAND

Find the right words

When you understand who your customers are, what they want and what's in their way, you can position your brand as the best solution for their problems. Backstory will help you find out how they describe their pain and the value you provide for them in solving it.

Parents with two small kids are sitting in front of the monitor at the desk and looking at the screen. The screen has the words “Gateway arch” and the symbols of an arch, a helicopter and a smiling face.

Create the right visuals

Your visual brand identity, look and feel, and imagery can either contribute to or detract from your brand. Our network of designers has the experience and versatility to convey the right feeling for your brand in a way that connects with your audiences for the long term.

This image is quite similar to the previous one, except that their faces look happy and radiant now. That is the result of the scene they saw on the monitor. They saw an arch with no gaps and a helicopter in front of it.

Deliver the right experiences

Everything your brand does communicates how you feel about your customers and your relationship with them. Backstory will help you increase your awareness of customer touchpoints and align them with your brand standards to build confidence in your business.

The whole family is now in the helicopter and is flying near the arch.
A female designer is sitting at a desk with a computer monitor, tablet and notes. She is creating a visual brand style guide for Gateway Arch. She is using the tablet and watches the results on the monitor.
BE CONSISTENT

Create clear standards for expressing your brand.

Establishing a clear set of brand standards and guidelines can help you consistently communicate your brand visually, verbally, and experientially. We will help you create a visual brand style guide for visual communications that are always on brand, brand tone of voice guidelines that inform your copywriting and core values that define cultural beliefs and behaviors that help make the right experiences at scale. The resulting alignment will build trust.

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BRAND WISDOM - Paul Gustavson
The essence of strategy is doing different things and doing things differently.

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Paul Gustavson