I’ve run a few promotions over the years and the most popular has been the “Free Day of Planning.”
Promotions are typically used on new products to promote trial. I have been in Asheville, NC for a year and a half and have yet to pick up any paying clients, so it’s time to break out the big promotional guns.
Last night while attending the Asheville Design Salon it came to me that in this market (and most markets) most people don’t wake up saying “Damn, I need a brand strategy.” They need customers, a website, and certainly logos and design work – but an organizing principle for product, experience and messaging, not so much.
Existentially, what is a brand strategy? It’s a brief – a piece of paper with a positioning idea, based on customer care-abouts and brand good-ats. So today I am offering all businesses in Ashville and the surrounding towns a free brief. (I’d insert nomenclature here about limited time offer and first-come-first served, but don’t think it necessary.)
Caveat: I will not be able to go crazy deep on your brand, but way more than deep enough to open eyes. Deep enough to help prioritize values. And focus. And to an extent, to wrap it all up in a little poetry.
So have at it Asheville. Write Steve@whatstheidea.com and order up your free brief.