Be an expert on your business, product or service…
You’ve just developed a product that is going to change the world. Congratulations. You’re also now an expert–on your product, the state of the world that gave rise to your product, the problem or issues that your product is solving, the people who buy your product (and those who would never buy your product–and why they’re losers), and how your product will impact the world.

When you’re a thought leader, you’re influencing buyers to believe that they could have never lived without your perspective–or your product. This isn’t easy: It means gathering stats, hearing what your competitors are saying and developing a bullet proof marketing strategy. A true expert understands how to be relevant to the untapped market he or she seeks, and how to reach and connect to them. By looking a little further down the road and prognosticating what’s to come, you become the thought leader for your industry. Now you just have to be right and make it happen!

Give your clients or consumers a brand promise…
Think of the brands you love: BMW, McDonald’s, Apple…

Well, maybe you don’t love McDonald’s but think about the promise these companies make to you? Do they fulfill it? Every time? Of course they do. Whether it’s engineering, a reliable meal, great service or innovation, they have made a promise to every consumer that they will fulfill it, every time, no excuses. The brand promise is a method of  establishing trust and a foundation for your brand, growing your brand and gaining strong brand awareness.

To uncover your own brand promise, dig deep to answer these three questions:

Why did you build this product?

What can you absolutely deliver on, 100 percent of the time, no questions asked?

How are you making your customer’s life better every day?

Remember, Ray Kroc never set out to make the best burger; he set out to make the most reliable burger restaurant on the planet. BMW isn’t making the cheapest car, the coolest car or the family car; it’s simply the best-engineered car. That’s what the top engineers from Germany will promise you every time. Their customers’ lives are made better because each time they sit in that car, they’re closer to automotive genius. That promise being met is what makes the customer come back.

And when you have a repeat customer, you have a brand.

Working closely with the R&D team in Slovakia, our first project is to implement an email marketing system to strengthen communications between CrazyFly HQ and their UK retailers and schools.

Following this, we will be working hard with the R&D team to assist in the launch of their 2011 product range that is due to hit our shores in early September.

To strengthen the CrazyFly brand within the UK, NBG will be implementing a number a clever marketing tools to not only maximise brand awareness and PR but to improve communications to their retailers across the UK. Part of this process will be implementing an e-mail marketing system directed at the trade to raise awareness of all PR developments and highlight product testing within key related publications. Our strategic marketing plan will also include a number of more creative experiential marketing campaigns to allow consumers the opportunity to experience and witness firsthand the outstanding quality of CrazyFly products.

CrazyFly is a global leader and innovator in the design and manufacture of equipment for kitesurfing.

Known worldwide for their high quality kiteboards, newbrandguru has recently started working with their R&D team in Slovakia to help grow the CrazyFly brand throughout the UK and assist in the launch of their 2011 product range that will hit our shores in early September.

To strengthen the CrazyFly brand within the UK, NBG will be implementing a number a clever marketing tools to not only maximise brand awareness and PR but to improve communications to their retailers across the UK.
Part of this process will be implementing an e-mail marketing system directed at the trade to raise awareness of all PR developments and highlight product testing within key related publications. Our strategic marketing plan will also include a number of more creative experiential marketing campaigns to allow consumers the opportunity to experience and witness firsthand the outstanding quality of CrazyFly products.

What ever product it is, CrazyFly is always quality you can trust!

The team at newbrandguru has been working with Mobi since the official launch of their first product back in March 2009 at The Outdoors Show.

Buckhurst, owners of the Mobi brand approached NBG to develop a strategic marketing plan and clever launch event to break their highly innovative product into as many target markets as possible.

Since launching their first product, the Mobi V-15 Portable Washer, NBG has worked closely with the team at Mobi to fine tune their marketing strategy and grow their brand through clever PR campaigns, advertising and social media tools.

Following the successful launch of the Mobi V-15, NBG has launched a further two products for Mobi, the V-17 Portable Washer and the Mobi Power-Pack. Both are highly innovative products that required a strategic launch platform to boost their brand awareness and more importantly educate the target consumers.

NBG, work as an outsourced marketing solution for Mobi handling all elements of their strategic marketing, PR activity, experiential marketing and working closely with their European Key Account Manager on distribution and event management.

Advertising, Brochure Design and Event Promotions

Following the development of the Mobi corporate brand guidelines, NBG worked on designing additional brand identity logos for each individual product and the product packaging. In addition, NBG created product brochures, event point of sale and marketing promotional ‘give-aways’ including pens and t-shirts.

Experiential Marketing and Event Management

Highly innovative products such as Mobi, always have an educational buy-in process. Its important that we demonstrate the key benefits of the products direct to the target consumers, ensuring that they are fully aware of the products benefits. No better method of marketing acieves this better than experiential marketing. Experiential marketing engages your target audience, its the opportunity for them to touch feel and understand the product.

As part of this marketing process, NBG took full control of event management for Mobi and in addition to the offical product launches secured an exposure deal with Goodwood Motor Circuit to engage the Breakfast Club attendees with their products.

Throughout 2010, NBG will be working to a strict marketing activity calendar, ensuring maximum brand exposure throughout the year at key events. The Mobi product range has a very wide target audience, reaching this wide and diverse market requires both a clever and strategic marketing plan ensuring that set monthly budgets are utilised in the most effective manner to consistently engage consumers and grow the Mobi brand.

Client testimonial

Sam is the Chemistry that has bound our business and enabled it to progress; he brings this Chemistry in two ways.

Firstly, his personality, which is big, bright and welcoming, a personality that doesn’t just makes things happen, but makes them want to happen, our fizz in the always half full bottle, the catalyst, an accelerator of ideas. Secondly, through his actions and reactions, and, all too often, ability to foresee them and have an answer, even as the question is being asked.

At Buckhurst, we believe in our product, and that it is the very best there is available. To not surround that product with the very best people available would be folly, we believe that, with NBG and Sam Lutman-Pauc, we have exactly that. A skilled, dedicated and utterly professional team of people whose adherence to excellence is standard, and whose performance regularly exceeds our expectations.
John Penny, Director – Buckhurst Limited, Bosham, Chichester

Following the marketing strategy creation, newbrandguru created a full brand identity for Wrist-Pull including brand guidelines, corporate stationery and brochure website to promote their product.

Wrist-Pull is a highly innovative hygienic door handle system, simplistic in its operation, it offers a safe and easy method of exiting a bathroom without fear of contaminating your hands on dirty door handles.

Part of our marketing approach was to take the highly innovative product to the market leading restaurants and entertainment venues, ares that have heavy footfall and take their consumers personal hygiene very seriously.

Our design team photographed the product in our studio, we then re-coloured the product to suit the corporate identity of the potential consumers we were approaching, this included Mcdonalds and Butlins.

Full marketing materials were then developed to assist our client in pitching their product to potential distributors. This included the development of magazine advertising, brochure design and product packaging design.

Our next project is to work with the R&D team at Windscrest Ltd  to assist in the development and launch of their second product the Wrist-Loop which we hope to launch in September 2010.

Juliet Wilson is passionately committed to improving the performance of athletes and believes that nutrition is a powerful instrument to improving all aspects of performance and health.

NBG has been working closely with Juliet Wilson to develop a new business and information structure to help and advise women during pregnancy. Taking her key nutritional skills, Juliet and her research team has developed a range of nutrition products to help women through the various stages of pregnancy.

Initially, our focus was on developing a marketing strategy for the new business, this was followed by brand identity creation, product packaging design and then website design and build including full e-commerce and CMS.

The team at newbrandguru has been working with Parklife for a number of months developing their old brand identity to better position them within the market.

Parklife Photography is a London based portrait specialist that use a unique approach by capturing the best of their clients in the great outdoors.

Following the brand identity development and website build, newbrandguru has designed and produced a range of marketing materials to launch the new identity. The client selected the prestigious event Polo in the Park, Hurlingham Park, London

Our brand identity development will be carried across to all marketing material including a new website and gallery for their clients.

The creative brief for the new Parklife Photography website was to create a fun website that still retained a strong professional image and displayed the unique style of portrait photography that Parklife capture.

The website was built with a complex but easy to use CMS enabling the client to update gallery and products with ease.

In addition to the main Parklife brand identity, NBG created a new identity for the Montage side of Parklifes business. The montage is a unique photographic work of art, designed and produced to capture whatever your passion in life is… a photographic motage of your passion in life.

]]> http://newbrandguru.com/work/parklife-photography/feed/ 0 http://newbrandguru.com/blog/newbrandguru-will-be-launching-their-new-website-in-january-2010/ http://newbrandguru.com/blog/newbrandguru-will-be-launching-their-new-website-in-january-2010/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:43:56 +0000 Sam Lutman-Pauc http://newbrandguru.com/?p=1 Our business has grown at a phenomenal rate throughout 2009 and this growth has meant we have had to implement new tools and online services to assist and support our growing portfolio…

The team at NBG is delighted to announce that we will be launching our new website in early January 2010.

Our business has grown at a phenomenal rate throughout 2009 and this growth has meant we have had to implement new tools and online services to assist and support our growing portfolio of clients.

One of these new tools is the secure login area on our new website, this will enable clients to login to the NBG Base Camp in a safe and secure environment where they can access their files, message and chat with or file share with colleagues. Our new website boasts a long list of exciting and innovative marketing tools that will ensure we continue our growth and achieve our ambition of being the best marketing consultancy on the south coast of England.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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Twitter has the ability to turn every day chatter into a must have marketing tool and invaluable source of intelligence for businesses, while engaging potential consumers in a way that seems to have become increasingly tricky for traditional media.

For many people, advertising has increasingly come to be seen as an irritating interruption. Consumers, once a captive audience, now fast-forward ads on their digital TVs, complain about pop-ups on the internet and treat emails from companies they are otherwise happy to do business with as spam.

With Twitter, you choose to hear from people and more importantly interact with people in a two-way dialogue. Companies, including Starbucks, already use Twitter to pump out their latest offers to those customers that sign up. Much of the mainstream media is using it to promote their content, offering links to articles in newspapers, magazines or promoting events and product launches.

There is simply no avoiding social media within your marketing plan and for those of you that are not Tweeting, you could be missing out on a great deal of business. Using Social Media tools as part of your marketing plan is a great cost effective method of communicating with your target audience.

Follow the team at NBG by following our Twitter updates.