Brand Strategy Consultant
for Beauty Brands and Retailers
From early-stage ventures to established brands in need of a radical refresh, I work with ambitious brands to craft out their unique space within the industry, and create compelling brand narratives that captivate their audience and drive growth.
Your ‘brand’ is not your logo.
Your brand is how you are perceived in your customer’s minds.
In a world full of brands all doing and saying the same thing, your brand needs to stand out. Defining what makes you different, uncovering your unique position with the market and being able to articulate this to your ideal customer is what will create a successful brand.
As a brand strategy consultant for beauty brands, I work through a unique framework to help arm beauty brands with the tools to help them flourish.
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Your brand substance includes the reason you exist beyond making money, what you stand for, what you hope to achieve for your brand and how you are going to achieve it. Thi is your brand's purpose, values, vision and mission. These are the foundational blocks every brand needs in order to show up authentically and consistently for your audience.
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When a brand has a thorough understanding of who their customer is, even down to the smallest detail like how they like to have their coffee in the mornings, a brand will stand a much better chance of being able to resonate with that audience.
Understanding your audience is more than just demographics. You need to know what their deepest desires are, what scares them and what is actually driving their purchasing decisions.
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By conducting a thorough competitor analysis, we can understand who we are up against, how these brands are showing up, what they are trying to communicate and if their brand message is clear and concise. This research and analysis gives us a much better insight into how we can position your brand differently.
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Successful brands don't copy what others are doing. They craft their own unique position within the market, or they do something better than other brands that are currently available. Your brand position is how your customers perceive your brand within their minds. Your positioning strategy is the unique value that your brand brings, that would make your customers want to come to you over another brand.
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Humanising your brand creates a deeper connection with your audience. The most successful brands are the ones with a strong personality, as your audience can connect in the same way as if it were a living, breathing, talking human.
By developing a brand persona, we work on defining the characteristics of your brand, the personality, how it would look and sound if it were human. This is important work when it comes to delivering your message externally to your audience through your marketing as it goes in depth into the tone of voice and language your brand will use.
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Your core message is what you want your audience to understand about your brand. This message is delivered through your social posts, content, emails, packaging, website etc.. any outward facing marketing that your audience will see. Your message needs to be engaging and memorable, so we will work together to develop a primary and secondary core message that will weave itself through ALL of your marketing.
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Using our story framing technique, we will craft a brand story that resonates with your customer. This technique provides story blocks that outline how the customer will go from their current everyday life, the struggles they face and how our brand becomes the solution that is going to solve all their problems.
Why invest in brand strategy?
Provides a clear direction and focus for your brand
Improves decision-making for you as a founder and for any stakeholders or investors
Increases company value as it builds brand equity and credibility
Increases brand awareness and recognition
Provides more consistent and cohesive messaging
Differentiates your brand from others within the market
Improves customer loyalty and retention rates
Lowers marketing costs as the value of a strong brand means less money needs to be spent on ineffective marketing campaigns
Increases the chances of top talent wanting to work with the brand
Improves profitability and financial performance due to building a strong brand
Improves customer word of mouth marketing and attracts loyal customers to the brand
We build legacy brands
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We build high converting brands
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We build brands that stand out and get seen
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We build legacy brands
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We build high converting brands
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We build brands that stand out and get seen
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We build legacy brands ✚ We build high converting brands ✚ We build brands that stand out and get seen ✚ We build legacy brands ✚ We build high converting brands ✚ We build brands that stand out and get seen ✚
Jené Roestorf - Beauty Brand Founder
“In a few months, Mel has transformed our content and brand strategy to one that is more aligned with our brand style, voice and customer demographic, resulting in high-performing content that consistently drives traffic to our e-commerce site. The positive change has been so noticeable that several customers and partners have reached out with their compliments and to ask who we are working with!”
Amy Komorowski - Beauty Brand Founder
“We loved working with Elixir Brands and Mel! As relatively new beauty brand owners we relied on her expertise and knowledge of brand and marketing strategy. Her taste and attention to detail was impeccable, as well as her knack for helping us nail down our brand voice.”
This service is for you if…
You are a beauty brand or retailer founder with the ambition to create a legacy brand.
You are struggling to connect to your audience and finding your message is getting lost or non-existent.
You have a good product, but sales aren’t where you want them to be.
You need to understand your customers better, so you can craft the right messaging and create a compelling story that is going to actually make them want to buy.
You are ambitious and driven and want to invest in the future of your brand so you can achieve your big dreams.
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