Messaging
+ Content

What you say, how you say it + where you say it

When this is for you

The positioning is done. You know why you’re great, what makes you different, and how to describe it. At least when someone asks you directly.

The problem is that your brand doesn't show up consistently across everything you put out. Your website positions you in one way. Your proposals say something slightly different. Your LinkedIn sounds like a third firm. Three touchpoint, three different versions of the same brand.

A brand that sounds different everywhere isn't a brand. This is the engagement that makes it land.

What we do

We take your brand foundations — your verbal identity, positioning, and tone of voice — and design outwards.

We develop the precise language you’ll use for consistently describing your work, structured for every context and every audience. The rules for how your message adapts in different spaces, without losing its core. An elevator pitch that works.

This work culminates in your content strategy. A comprehensive, custom document that maps what you should be saying, where, who to, how often, in what format, and from what angles. This is built specifically for your firm, your positioning, and with your capacity to execute it in mind.

What you get

Content strategy

The primary deliverable. A comprehensive custom document covering your content channels, content pillars, posting cadence, content angles, and how to execute (whether in-house or with support).

Core messaging

Your elevator pitch, key messages, and the precise language for describing what you do in every context.

Messaging hierarchy guidelines

How your message adapts across different audiences and touchpoints without losing its foundation.

Taglines and headline options

Short, specific phrases built from your brand. Ready to use across your website, proposals, marketing, and content.

Content prompt library

Prompts rooted in your brand that make content creation faster and more consistent.

Writing guide

Rules and guidance on content best practices. So anyone writing for you can do it in your voice without starting from scratch.

What changes when your messaging + content is strong

Everything starts saying the same thing, in the right way. Consistency builds memorability.

Your elevator pitch works. The version you give in the hallway at a conference is the same one in your proposals, because it's been sharpened rather than improvised each time.

Your content builds something. Each piece reinforces the same expertise, the same positioning, the same reason to work with you. The accumulation does what individual posts can't.

This approach in practice

One Core Media: A performance marketing agency

One Core Media is a full-service performance marketing agency operating across North America and Europe. Multiple services, multiple industries, a complex offering that had ballooned into a complicated brand narrative.

We simplified the way they explained their business and their work, so their best-fit audiences could actually understand their scope and process.

“Sam listened to our team and asked the right questions to develop a deep understanding of our business and our goals. He's able to take different voices and different viewpoints and synthesize it all into a unified brand message.”

— Saro Manoukian, Creative Director, One Core Media

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