From the Lab

Inside Branding: Messaging frameworks that shift perceptions and buyer behavior

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Our lives are layered with endless choices, and its rare that any products is intended for everyone. Even the most popular products have very specific sets of customers in mind.

Organizations must deeply understand such customers to access opportunities that are of real value.

Your strategy on what, where and how to deliver your brand message stems from that understanding of who you connect with and who you do not. At Lumo Lab we call that strategy a 'messaging framework'.

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Establish the messaging framework prior to any advertising or branding to ensure ROI.

A messaging framework is your brand's expressive core.

It's built on insights that help you understand you core audiences - the kind of people are likely to become your brand champions - their mindsets, priorities and attributes - and how you offer value to their lives.

In the best cases, gaining such insights involves getting to know customers within their settings and spaces, and seeing how their lives are impacted by your product and also by other products.

The more deeply you can relate to these people the more a brand is able to better shape and prioritise its actions and underlying messages.

Correct messaging attracts and engages the right kind of customer.

It focuses on:

1. Insights that shape what you say and how you show.

2. Features and promises that create residual value to your customers.

3. Structured offering and the deeper psychological considerations that influence behaviour.

Designing marketing assets around a strong messaging framework ensures a smoother sales pathway.

Marketing assets like brochures, websites, signage, apps, emails and event platforms  engage audiences, leading them along the brand journey.

Decades of research shows that humans make decisions from an emotions - meaning that our conscious buying decisions are shaped by narratives we form in our minds that consist of abstract associations and meaning.

Design's purpose is to shape these association in such a way that feels natural and unforced. It takes the messaging framework and builds out a story or identity around the brand that feels less like a sales pitch, and more like a friend who has your best interests at heart.

Lumo Lab's strength is in assisting marketing teams with branding at scale.

At Lumo Lab, our depth of experience means we're equipped to assist well-established businesses to reach new heights of customer engagement.

Our team includes data experts, marketing specialists, animators we can draw on to help brands to carve out positions in the marketplace.

We're adept at positioning brands for a range of messaging outcomes such as global leadership, niche expertise or technological disruption.

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