When seeking a PR partner for our launch, we needed more than just media placements—we needed strategic minds who could fully integrate with our marketing vision and strengthen our brand in new communities. Red Fan delivered on every level and is a joy to work with. Their earned media strategy secured meaningful coverage that resonated locally and built genuine brand awareness exactly where we needed it. Red Fan’s work complemented and enhanced our broader marketing initiatives, creating a cohesive launch that exceeded our awareness goals and established the strong foundation we needed for sustainable growth in each region.
UNLOCK THE POWER OF YOUR STORY
When it’s complex, crowded, and crucial to win—we can help.
Customers just don’t understand what we do or why they should choose us.
I hear a different story and messages everytime we talk about ourselves.
I’m growing and need to reach a new set of investors, partners & customers.
I’ve got to cut through the noise in a crowded, complex market.
Testimonials
Health care is unlike any other product or service when entering new markets. The close and personal impact it has on members requires us to authentically create and convey a sense of comfort and safety with our brand. Red Fan’s crisis communications and media training helped us deliver the heart-felt and authentic message we needed to foster trust and new relationships within our target communities. Best of all, they secured the right media opportunities and provided diligent training to make me feel secure and prepared for each interview.
Working with the Red Fan Communications team has been an absolute pleasure from start to finish. Their thoughtful approach to brand development and marketing strategy set the foundation for what quickly became one of the most seamless and creative collaborations we’ve ever been a part of. From our initial brand and content discussions last fall to the soon-to-rollout, amazingly designed, user-friendly website and a versatile promotional content library, every step of the process was handled with professionalism, creativity and attention to detail.
What stood out most was the team’s ability to not only deliver high-quality materials but also anticipate our needs, making everything easy to manage long after their work was complete. The final ‘products’ truly reflect the spirit and professionalism of IREM Austin, and we’re excited to carry this work forward.
As Kinective enters a critical growth period, we needed to unify our solutions from multiple merged companies into one cohesive brand story that we could apply across every element of our go-forward marketing, communications and sales strategy. Red Fan didn’t just deliver—they transformed our approach. Their deep industry experience and understanding of financial services and technology meant they immediately grasped our complex platform approach. Through their brand positioning workshop, they distilled stakeholder feedback into a cohesive narrative that resonates with our financial institution customers.
What would have taken us a year to develop internally, Red Fan delivered in weeks. They captured our brand story and unified platform vision, which has been invaluable as we position Kinective as the banking operations platform of choice.
Going from public to private and introducing two new companies in just two years requires careful messaging to our stakeholders, including our employees, customers and the media. However, with their thorough research of our technologies, culture and customers, Red Fan helped prevent any misunderstandings throughout our entire journey. Their trusted-advisor approach to our needs helped keep us on the right path and netted the coverage we needed to tell our story.
Brand messaging development
Over eight weeks, we’ll meet with every stakeholder group crucial to your business—the C-suite, marketing and sales teams, customers, investors—to identify the crucial messages and value propositions that will resonate in the market.
Our proven methodology kicks off with in-depth research and leads to the development of a compelling vision for your business.
Brand Positioning + Narrative Lab
Research
Our proven method for crafting unique and differentiated brand positioning starts with research. We combine qualitative competitive and market analysis of your direct competitor set with industry-leading data analytics and natural language processing tools.
The result is a comprehensive evaluation of individual companies and the market as a whole. We uncover the language and themes that are driving market-wide trends, media conversations, news cycles, target audiences, purchasing behavior and value.
Brand Survey
Using our research findings as a baseline, we’ll distribute a customized survey to your leadership, marketing, sales and operations teams that lets us focus on the brand fundamentals and assess messaging alignment across teams.
We’ll hone in on brand descriptions, target audiences and core value propositions, while turning your brand’s weaknesses into strengths and assessing what’s worked in the past and why.
Half-Day Interactive Workshop
Over the course of four hours with members of your executive team, we’ll use competitive analysis and survey findings to understand your brand and strategy even more deeply.
We’ll discuss market challenges and opportunities, hear your origin story, and identify audience-specific messaging and value propositions. These interactive conversations explore how your brand, products, market, employees, customers, media and other stakeholders interact with each other to form unified—and unique—brand positioning.
Deliver the Goods
Every deliverable we build as part of our narrative process will be customized to your unique needs.
Maybe it takes the form of an updated investor deck or website. What’s most important to us is how we leverage the outcomes of our narrative process across your entire business and communications. Brand positioning is so fundamental to market strategy that it influences everything else we do when executing a communications plan together.
Strategy/Channel | Tactics |
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Corporate reputation: press materials and media relations | Boilerplates, pitches, executive media training and interviews |
Business development: sales conversations and enablement | Product clicks, executive summaries, email communications |
Marketing + owned content | Website, white papers, e-books, webinars, social media, drip campaigns |
Internal communications | Town halls, company-wide memos, culture cultivation |
Thought leadership | Contributed content, awards, speaking engagements |
Supporting a transformative brand from market entry to coronavirus response
Growing supply chain software company gains industry-wide prominence
Accelerating marketing communications to match business growth
Product Messaging
Communicating product market fit is more than developing a few one-pagers full of features and functionality.
It’s a critical layer of your brand’s market position that presents solutions within the context of a deep understanding of market- and audience-specific challenges.
Red Fan’s team of brand strategists integrates directly with executives, product marketing teams and sales to tell a more complete story anchored in your brand’s innovation, product roadmap and problem-solving ability.
Trusted advisors for every stage of a brand’s growth.
Effective positioning establishes a benchmark for how you, your employees, customers, investors and the media talk about your brand.
Better yet, your brand’s positioning is always there for you whenever you need it.