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Our System · Step 4

Manage Your Brand.

A brand only pays you back when it's used. We keep yours working and in front of the right people, month after month, so you don't have to carry it alone.

PriceCustomBuilt around your growth goals
FormatMonthlyNo tiers, no cookie-cutter packages
Yearly value+$66Kbefore your monthly fee*
Starts withYour brand planStep 2 comes first

What it is

Your brand, put to work every month.

Most brands don't fail at design. They fail at rollout. The website launches, the videos get made, and then life gets busy.

Managing your brand means it keeps showing up: new content every month, design when you need it, upkeep so it never drifts back into a hodgepodge, and senior-level brand leadership at the table without a full-time hire.

There are no tiers and no packages. We look at your goals and build your plan around the growth lever we believe will move your business most. Your monthly investment sets how much we produce, and every piece is built from your brand plan.

The problems it solves

Built is not the same as used.

Feast or famine

You have no plan to stay in front of people.

You market when you're slow and stop when you're busy, so the slow seasons keep coming back.

What it costs you: Revenue swings and a pipeline that dries up without warning.

Unused

Your assets are sitting on a shelf.

You invested in a brand, a website, and video. Nobody is rolling them out.

What it costs you: The return you paid for and never collected.

Overloaded

You're the marketing department.

Every post, every update, and every brand decision lands on your desk, on top of running the company.

What it costs you: Your evenings, and the work only you can do.

Drift

Your brand is slowly falling apart.

A flyer from one vendor, a post from another. Little by little, you stop looking like yourself.

What it costs you: The consistency that builds trust.

Everything included

What managing your brand can include.

Your plan is built from these, around the growth lever that matters most to you.

Social content and scheduling

Planned and on-brand, so you stay top of mind with prospects.

Short-form video

Ongoing video built from your story, so people keep getting to know you.

Design on demand

Ads, flyers, presentations and more, so every new piece looks like you.

Brand upkeep

Keeping your website, profiles and materials current and consistent, so you never drift.

Fractional CMO

Senior brand and marketing leadership, so you have a strategist at the table without a full-time hire.

Consulting

Help with big decisions, launches and messaging, so you make the move that fits your brand.

Rollout of the assets we built

Help implementing and distributing your website, video, print and more, so you collect the return you paid for.

Regular reviews against your baseline

So you can see what's working and adjust.

The opportunities it creates

What changes when your brand keeps showing up.

Consistency compounds

Every month you show up the same way, trust builds. People buy from brands they trust.

Leadership without the hire

Senior brand leadership and a production team for less than one full-time marketing salary.

Your time back

You approve. We produce. You get back to the work only you can do.

Be the first call

When the need comes up, the business they've been seeing every month is the one they call.

Give value before asking

Share useful content consistently, so prospects already trust you when it's time to buy.

Collect the full return

Your brand and assets get used, which is where the return on everything else lives.

81%

of buyers say they must be able to trust a brand before they buy from it.

Edelman Trust Barometer Special Report, 2019
63%

Most companies' strategies deliver only 63% of their promised value. The loss happens between the plan and its use.

Bain & Company
23%

Business units with highly engaged people are 23% more profitable.

Gallup meta-analysis

The return

Consistency, counted conservatively.

Estimated yearly value (gross)

$66K

estimated yearly value managing your brand adds on top of your brand plan and assets, before your monthly fee

$15,000added in year one
$251,500all four steps together, once fully in use

Where the value comes from

In-house marketing hire avoided$37,500
Consistent presence: another 2% more revenue at a 40% margin$16,000
More owner time recovered: 4 hours a week$12,000
Total yearly value, once fully in use$65,500

*A conservative model for a business in the $4M to $6M range, modeled at $4M, the bottom of that range. We count only half of the value the published research supports, and we phase it in: year one shows part of it, and the full figure takes about three years of consistent use. Added sales are counted at a 40% margin. These returns depend on your brand being adopted, implemented, managed and used consistently across every touchpoint. Without that, they are not expected. This is a model, not a guarantee and not a past client's result.

How it works

How it works.

01

Pick the lever

We agree on the growth goal that matters most right now.

02

Plan the month

A content and design plan built from your brand plan.

03

Create and publish

We produce it. You approve it. It goes out.

04

Review and adjust

We check results against your baseline and adjust the plan.

What a used brand looks like

The Real Estate Station

They had someone whose job was rolling the brand out, and they teach their brand to every new hire. The whole team now works from one blueprint, with shared goals and shared language. Read their story.

Moving straight from your brand plan to managing it? We'll build the essential assets first, at a pace set by your monthly investment. The Essentials build is the faster path to the same pieces.

Start with your Brand INSIGHT

Find out where your brand stands.

We look at everything a customer sees when they look you up: your website, your search results, your reviews, your social, and score it across 26 factors and 250 points.

Your brand scoreFree

Your score, your strengths, and the areas costing you the most, emailed to you in minutes.

Your action plan$299

Your recommended next steps plus a meeting with a Message Masters brand strategist to walk through them.

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