A Free 5-Step Brand Strategy Template To Improve Sales

Blue Bee Web team gathered this brand strategy document template to help you develop your brand as a solid, memorable, and loved part of your current and future customers.

With the help of this brand strategy document, you will be able to keep track and improve your brand even daily at the following points:

• brand voice
• visual identity
• brand positioning
• brand messaging
• adjust your value proposition
• improve brand promise
• tell a simple & relatable brand story
• and much more

If you are new to this, a brand strategy is quite a simple task; a brand strategy is the exact plan of action to achieve long-term goals that result in proper further steps to gain recognition and build loyal fans.

Now, let's focus on how to perform an efficient brand strategy session, following the proper brand strategy template.

The 5-Step Plan to Improve Your Brand's Strategy

1. Defining A Brand Mission, Vision & Goals
2. Developing A Brand Personality, Brand Voice & Visual Identity
3. Research & Define Target Audience
4. Exploring Brand, Market & Opportunity Gaps
5. Building an Action Plan for your Brand

Brand Mission, Vision & Goals - 1st Step of Brand Strategy Template

The 1st step is to make all your other business decisions - conscious & purposeful, where generating revenue is not a goal but an inevitable consequence.

We will answer your so-called "why, what, and how" questions.

"The core for identifying your purpose for what you want to do in business" - inc.com

Brand Purpose Statement - the "WHY"

Leadership expert - Simon Sinek, in a TED Talk, said, "People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it."

Our team feels more comfortable giving you an example of our brand strategy template, so we'll give you our brand as an example.

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Brand Mission Statement - the "WHAT"

It answers the following questions:

• How do you see your brand in the future?
• What is the result of your vision?
• What does your brand want to accomplish for the people around you?

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Brand Vision Statement - the "HOW"

How are you going to accomplish your brand goal? How are you going to embody all your purpose and passion?

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Business Goals

While your brand vision, mission, & purpose are well defined, it's time to adjust your business goals. The first task is to determine your results with the right mindset and brand personality.

Adjust your business goals with a brand vision, mission & purpose mindset.

2. Developing A Brand Personality

Remember that now we are describing your brand, not business; the difference is that we are representing your brand as if it were a person with a specific character.

Brand Words & Brand Identity Board

To build a template for brand strategy, let's begin describing your brand with the right words and phrases. Treat the image below as homework and fill it out with your ideas to better understand your brand.

Describe your brand with words that fit the categories on the image.

Let's also use images and visual ways to describe your brand.

Identity Board Illustration - by Blue Bee Web

Brand Personality Sliders

This exercise uses previous words and imagery to track your brand development in progress. In the image below, you can find two circles. White & yellow. Place the white one where you feel your business is today and the yellow one where you wish to be in the future. It's critical to keep developing a brand strategy template.

Describe your brand today vs. what you wish it to be with brand personality slides.

We must say that there are many more instruments to define your brand as a person and adjust your brand messaging, brand voice & visual identity. Yet, the exercises listed above are essential to the process and the easiest to understand.

3. Research & Define Target Audience

The result of this step will be the actual image of our brand in the eyes of our current customers.

If you feel that your audience is "for everyone" and your products suit the same group, you do nothing for nobody. We're sorry, but it's true, especially if you are here to find ways to improve your brand. You are

It would help if you defined your niche very precisely. It's your best competitive advantage. Take into consideration your brand & business development goals. 

Firstly you need to find minor groups of people among your current customers. This minimal viable audience should relate to your brand vision, mission & statement. 

Then we're going to develop target groups based on the following questions:

• What does your current customer look like?
• What do we know about them?
• What are some critical characteristics?
• What do they need & want?

Develop target audience & customer groups today and who you wish them to be.

The Target Table allows us to perform customer research based on our developed target groups.

4. Exploring Gaps & Defining Your Brand Strategy Positioning

We already have a clear brand image and data of our current and ideal customers. We must match them by eliminating potential gaps and developing a proper brand strategy.

Brand positioning is the match of your brand identity and brand image.

Exploring Brand & Opportunity Gaps

Brand gap: How your brand sees itself with how your customer perceives you.

Opportunity gap: What does your brand offer with what customers need?

The exercise you do to identify any brand & opportunity gaps are the following:

1. Write down all possible activities & tasks your ideal customers do to fulfill their needs. 
2. Discover any possible gaps your brand has and write down how you could fill them.

Exploring Market Gaps

Market gap: How can you differentiate your brand on the market against your competitors?

Determine the market gaps by running a competitive analysis. As a result, you will find the best ways to differentiate your brand from your competition.

Developing The Right Positioning

Positioning is what your audience thinks, feels & knows about your brand when they have a need you can cover. A perfect positioning eliminates the price factor from your ideal customer decision process. Another advantage of the correct positioning is that your customers become loyal fans and promote your brand, like Tesla, Apple & Google.

The proper positioning will make low-price offers irrelevant.

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A positioning statement contains the following:

• The ideal customer
• The brand
• The brand offer & benefits

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5. Developing The Action Plan

At this point, you gathered a lot of information about your brand, customers, and competition. But without having it all summed up in an actionable roadmap, it all will be a waste of time & money.

The proper brand strategy action plan must contain the following:

• The most critical essential findings summarize in clear statements. The purpose is to incite any brand design, marketing & development actions in the future.
• List activities already defined to deliver your brand from point A to B.
• Brand voice examples
• Brand messaging & brand promise
• Brand visual identity guidelines
• Brand core values
• Value Proposition
• Buyer persona. that would want your brand

To The Next Level With Blue Bee Web

We understand that the process of building a great company & brand is challenging. However, we mastered it to the point where you can rely on our expertise. Our team will happily take this part of the process on us and exceed your expectations.

Prepare yourself for the excellent brand strategy session & read how to perform a proper brand strategy audit.

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