Integrated Marketing Communications is only integrated when everyone – both your internal and external agency teams – work together harmoniously
Blueprint has created a thorough and proven approach to developing a customized, scalable framework that gets you to truly great work
Writing a solid brief is hard work. Like, really hard work. It requires collaborative thinking, simplicity, and the brevity that results from making informed choices
Blueprint will work with you to develop a tailored brief template, and a path to training your team to write focused, inspiring, and actionable briefs
What’s keeping you up at night? (really) If you’re struggling with a question, a concept, a solution... sometimes you just need a fresh perspective
Blueprint has an array of proven solutions to solve for issues that address your business needs. Click below for examples of past work. If we don’t have a product, we can talk about creating one for you.
Sometimes we get so excited about our new product… our new campaign… our new partnership, that we lose sight of how we’ll uniquely connect with people in a way that satisfies both our business needs and the way consumers define their relationships with our brand in the digital age.
And if you have an IAT (inter-agency team) working for you, it's critical to make sure that everyone is aligned on key truths, a strategic north star, and a consumer journey where each touch point is as impactful as possible.
A new or revised IMC process gives us the framework in which to solve for these critical alignments.
We’ll develop it in stages:
Designed to get a thorough understanding of the successes and pain points of the current IMC process across your organization, and with your agencies, and identify the parts of IMC that need the most attention
Individual and small group interviews, tailored to each person or group’s role(s)
Coalescence of the work to a workshop summarizing the findings and filling in gaps
A close look at the inputs and outputs throughout your current process, from brief to final deliverable, to determine strengths and areas of opportunity
Coalescence of the assets summarizing the findings and filling in gaps
THE KEY DELIVERABLE
A customized process that fits with your category, organization and teams’ needs, identifies the role of data at each stage, and provides clarity around each phase / sub-phase:
Pre-Brief
Brief
Post-Brief
Full reference deck with detail around the finalized process
None of this work can be done in a vacuum, so we’ll design and run bespoke workshops to work through issues with the right people in the room, and get to agreement on IMC components that matter most
If desired, we’ll stay on through 1-2 IMC processes to help design briefs and other assets, and to ensure that roles and responsibilities are clear and followed
Not every marketing effort or campaign needs the full IMC process
So we’ll identify the places where we can run fast, and create cut-down versions of the IMC process for times when the full enchilada is not required
Oh, how we all wish this was truly farcical. But the reality is that, well… sometimes it’s not. If you can relate to this even a little bit, let’s talk about how we can make your briefs more choiceful, inspiring and actionable.
We’ll evaluate a sampling of your recent briefs and identify strengths + key issues to address
Based on the audit, we’ll develop a new or improved template that provides clear direction for everyone involved in its creation
How to use data to get to the right brief inputs, how to ask the “why-behind-the-why,” use data to get to the “guts of the whats” and narrow your strategic choices, and finally how to tell a story that inspires your teams
It’s been done many times, many ways, but in the end, what are you actually doing with the information?
Our unique approach focuses on critical questions such as managerial motivation, realistic prediction, and plans for direct response to the actions that your competitors might take
A brand promise is more than a mission statement – it’s what your consumers and customers can expect you to give them
We’ll work with your senior executives across disciplines to delve deeply into what your brand promise should be, and how you can socialize it so that it’s practiced and lived into across teams
Innovation may be the most nebulous term in marketing – everyone has their own idea of what it looks like
We’ll help you arrive at a “shared” definition of innovation based on your organization’s appetite for risk, and develop a roadmap for your agencies to consistently bring you innovative work
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