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Branding Messaging

Crafting a Messaging Framework for Your Brand

Jo Shailes
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So, you’ve built your Brand House. You’ve defined your core capabilities, the emotional and rational benefits, and your brand character. You have a solid strategic foundation. Now what?

Now it’s time to bring that strategy to life with compelling, consistent brand messaging.

I work with businesses to evolve their brand house into a messaging framework that shapes how they speak to the world—from website headlines and sales decks to LinkedIn posts and value propositions. This is where your brand starts to resonate.

Why Brand Messaging Matters

Without clear messaging, even the strongest brand strategy will struggle to land. Messaging is how you translate strategy into stories—how you turn your positioning into persuasion.

Done right, brand messaging helps you:

  • Connect with the right audience
  • Stand apart from competitors
  • Support your sales team with clarity and consistency
  • Scale your marketing without diluting your core message

How We Build Your Brand Messaging Framework

Using the insights from your Brand House, we develop a set of clear, flexible messaging elements that your whole business can use. Here’s what that typically includes:

1. Elevator Statement

A concise summary of what your business does and who it serves—tailored for someone who may know nothing about you.

2. Creative Statement

This is your hook—the imaginative, emotionally resonant phrase that helps people remember and feel something about your brand. It often leads your homepage or ad copy.

3. Customer Value Propositions (CVPs)

We break down your offering into 2–3 key CVPs, each with:

  • A one-liner summary
  • A short paragraph with supporting detail
  • Clear proof points to back up your claims

Each CVP focuses on a different audience priority—such as innovation, trust, or operational efficiency—so you’re ready to speak to different buyer types or sectors.

4. Benefit Mapping

For every product or service group, we identify a key promise or benefit. This ties your offering directly to what your customer values most—helping your team sell more effectively.

5. Tone of Voice and Brand Personality

We revisit your brand character (from the Brand House) and turn it into practical tone of voice guidance—so your messaging always sounds like you, no matter who’s writing it.

6. One-Pager Summary

Finally, we condense everything into a clear, visual one-pager—perfect for internal alignment, onboarding new team members, and briefing agencies or freelancers.

Beyond Messaging: Making It Work in the Real World

Once the messaging framework is in place, I help businesses implement it consistently:

  • Across their website and content
  • In sales presentations and case studies
  • Within email nurture flows and social campaigns
  • As part of training for marketing and sales teams

This isn’t just about what you say—it’s about how, where, and when you say it. Messaging becomes the bridge between strategy and execution.

If your business has a solid foundation but struggles to tell its story with clarity and confidence, let’s talk. At Shailes Consultancy, we specialise in helping B2B companies build strong strategic messaging that’s rooted in truth, resonates with the right audience, and supports commercial growth.  Contact us if you’d like to discuss how we can build (or refresh) your messaging framework together.

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