BRAND POSITIONING AND MESSAGING KIT
a Consistent, compelling brand converts prospects
Prospects are looking for a solution, and you want them to choose yours.
To compel those prospects, you need a story -- one that meets your exact customer, relates to the problems they face, and guides them through the world of available solutions, ultimately leading them to choose your company because you know their challenges and can solve them in a way that's precise, efficient, and will help them succeed and move forward.
Brand positioning and messaging provides a single source of truth for every piece of content and every conversation about your company. It ensures your internal stakeholders consistently define and differentiate your company in the best way possible, every time.
Take these steps to build a brand story that differentiates your corporate, products, and services brands from competitors.

Buyer Personas
Mission, Vision, & Core Values
Positioning Statement
Differentiation Pillars
Define Your Buyer Personas
Buyer personas are fictional representations of your ideal customers based on real data pertaining to customer demographics and online behavior as well as your educated speculation about their personal histories, motivations, and concerns. With personas, you can put faces to your customer segments and have the ability to better customize your marketing efforts – from messaging to activity selection – and make a greater impact with your prospects.

Draft your Positioning Statement
Our challenge as marketers and business leaders is to distinctly position and message our company, products and services in a way that builds credibility trust, differentiates, and effectively resonates with our buyer personas. Going through the process of positioning and messaging can be a difficult and time-consuming challenge, and is therefore one that's often skipped. However, it's critical to an effective marketing program and successful business.

Identify and Message Your Differentiators
Now that you have defined your positioning statement you must know and define your brand if you expect others to follow it. For your brand message to stand out, it has to be distinct, defining you as different than your competitors. When defining differentiation, engineering and technical clients often want to run to pragmatic, inconsequential differentiators that feel safe and all encompassing, and stop there.
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Create a company tagline
Your tagline is a semantic branding piece that helps give your prospects a little more information about who you are and what you do. Creating an intriguing tagline that sticks may seem difficult, but tagline development doesn’t have to stop you in your tracks for months.
You need something that’s memorable but not too off-the-wall, specific but not excluding, and exciting but accurate. Follow these 5 tips for creating a tagline that sticks.
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Share Your Brand Message in a Pitch Deck
With your brand position and differentiators now defined, you have the foundation in place to create external messaging so that you can equip sales and other teams to share your message. Your pitch deck should relate with your customer's pain points and capture the essence of your company's position.
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Develop Segment Messages
A message map is a framework used to create compelling, relevant messages for various audience segments. It also serves as an organizational alignment tool to ensure message consistency. Whether you are launching your company, introducing the next big product, or preparing for other major marketing campaigns, messaging mapping is an important step in communicating effectively. Developing message maps requires knowing your business goals, buyers and key differentiators.

Strategy Resources
Now that you have the basics on content marketing, we’ve put together our top resources to help you strategize. Check out these resources to learn how to maximize your efforts and generate more leads from content.
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Download our free ebook, Smart Messaging for Engineers
Marketing is continually changing, but people still gravitate towards people and companies they can trust. Gaining the trust of engineers can be particularly tricky as they can easily spot the difference between material generated by marketing compared to content produced by your tech team. But if you've spent hours and dollars carefully honing your brand and image, it is difficult to let that go to appease a technical audience. To win over a technical audience, you need to gain their trust, and the people they trust most are their engineers.
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Download our latest State of Marketing to Engineers Report
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Watch our webinar with tips on storytelling for technical brands
Your brand story is the narrative of your company. It should describe the problems customers face, guide them to the solutions you provide, and show the results your solutions bring. It’s easy to tell a story that's about you, but successful brands make their customer the hero, rather than their own products or services. During this on-demand webinar, Morgan Norris, Brand and Content Manager at TREW, will step through how technical firms can write a better brand story.
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Read Content Marketing, Engineered by Wendy Covey
Content Marketing, Engineered gives engineering and technical companies the framework and guidance needed for content marketing. The book guides business leaders and marketers through a proven, end-to-end content development process -- from identifying who to write for and what to write, to writing, publishing, promoting, and measuring compelling content that turns curious prospects into customers.
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Listen to our podcast episode, "Living your Unique Value Proposition"
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Listen to our podcast episode, "Brand Storytelling for Technical Companies"
When do you know it's time to revamp your company’s brand, and what are common traps that marketers fall into during the messaging process? In this episode we'll demystify the process of developing a brand story. We'll answer candid questions about when things have gone well, and what knocks brand messaging projects off the rails when developed correctly.
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Read our blog, Ensuring a Cohesive Rebranding Strategy Around a B2B Merger or Acquisition
Rebranding is extremely important to establish a new position in the market, but it is also risky. Not only can it be expensive to create and launch a rebrand, stakeholders may resist a rebrand because of the way a change will impact them. A poor attempt at rebranding can lead to brand confusion and ultimately devalue the brand. A rebrand needs careful planning, a clear message, and specific messages for stakeholders.
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Read our blog, How to Message Meaningful Differentiators
STORYTELLING FOR TECHNICAL BRANDS
Your brand story is the narrative of your company. It should describe the problems customers face, guide them to the solutions you provide, and show the results your solutions bring. It’s easy to tell a story that's about you, but successful brands make their customer the hero, rather than their own products or services. During this webinar Morgan Norris, Sr. Brand and Content Strategist at TREW, will step through how technical firms can write a better brand story.
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