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Ikigai (⽣き甲斐) is a Japanese
concept that means "a reason for
being.” It is an intersection of
what you are good at, what you
love, what the world needs, and
what you can be paid for.
Model for finding your brand purpose
The pillars of purpose
Love what
you do A
Focus your passion on building a
D A tight bond with consumers
Exceptional You need to know your consumers as well as you
Focus on
execution to building a tight know your brand. Use consumer insights, enemies
become your relationship with and needs. Talk with consumers about benefits—
consumer’s consumers what they get and how it makes them feel.
favorite brand
Build around a unique, own-able
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and motivating big idea
Purpose The big idea is what consumers connect with
first, then builds a bond as each touchpoint
Core of a delivers that big idea. Use the big idea to
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team
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Brand C
Inspire a values driven culture to
deliver happy experiences
C B
It is the culture of the organization who deliver the
Inspire a values Build around a experience. People are the face of the brand, and
driven culture to unique, own-able will be the source of creating loyalty with
deliver happy and motivating consumers
experiences Big Idea
Use exceptional execution to become
D your consumer’s favorite brand
Helps build a
loved brand “I love it” is the highest bar for great work.Never
settle for OK when greatness is attainable.
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✓ Write a brand positioning statement ✓ Write a brand positioning statement ✓
✓ How to think strategically
Write a brand positioning statement The playbook for how to create a
✓ Come up with a brand idea ✓ Come up with a brand idea ✓ Come up with a brand idea
THE PLAYBOOK FOR HOW TO BUILD A THE PLAYBOOK FOR HOW TO BUILD A B2B THE PLAYBOOK TO HELP YOU REALIZE
BRAND YOUR CONSUMERS WILL LOVE ✓ YOUR
BRAND WriteCUSTOMERS
a brand plan everyone
WILL LOVE THE ✓
can follow Write
FULL a brand
POTENTIAL AS Aplan
MARKETER ✓
everyone can follow Write a brand plan everyone can follow
GRAHAM ROBERTSON
✓ Write an inspiring creative brief
GRAHAM ROBERTSON
✓ Write an inspiring creative brief
GRAHAM ROBERTSON
✓ Make decisions on marketing execution ✓ Make decisions on marketing execution
✓ Conduct a deep-dive business review ✓ Conduct a deep-dive business review ✓
✓
✓
Write an inspiring creative brief
Make decisions on marketing execution
Conduct a deep-dive business review
brand your consumers will love
✓ Learn finance 101 for marketers ✓ Learn finance 101 for marketers ✓ Learn finance 101 for marketers
Beloved
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Model for finding your brand purpose
BRANDS BRANDS
✓ How to think strategicallyLEADER ✓ How to think strategically
✓ Write a brand positioning statement ✓ Write a brand positioning statement ✓
✓ How to think strategically
Write a brand positioning statement The playbook for how to create a
✓ Come up with a brand idea ✓ Come up with a brand idea ✓ Come up with a brand idea
THE PLAYBOOK FOR HOW TO BUILD A THE PLAYBOOK FOR HOW TO BUILD A B2B THE PLAYBOOK TO HELP YOU REALIZE
BRAND YOUR CONSUMERS WILL LOVE ✓ YOUR
BRAND WriteCUSTOMERS
a brand plan everyone
WILL LOVE THE ✓
can follow Write
FULL a brand
POTENTIAL AS Aplan
MARKETER ✓
everyone can follow Write a brand plan everyone can follow
GRAHAM ROBERTSON
✓ Write an inspiring creative brief
GRAHAM ROBERTSON
✓ Write an inspiring creative brief
GRAHAM ROBERTSON
✓ Make decisions on marketing execution ✓ Make decisions on marketing execution
✓ Conduct a deep-dive business review ✓ Conduct a deep-dive business review ✓
✓
✓
Write an inspiring creative brief
Make decisions on marketing execution
Conduct a deep-dive business review
brand your consumers will love
✓ Learn finance 101 for marketers ✓ Learn finance 101 for marketers ✓ Learn finance 101 for marketers
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GRAY’S
Cookies
Brand Vision
To be the first ‘healthy cookie’ to generate the craving, popularity and sales
of a mainstream cookie. Make Gray’s a $100 Million brand by 2030.
Our purpose
At Gray’s, we help people re-discover the lost secret that the most
amazing tasting food is made of natural ingredients.
2020 Goals
Consumer first, great taste, healthy, natural ingredients, fast-to-market,
family owned.
GRAY’S
Cookies Gray’s brand values
We know the daily pressures people face in making choices to eat healthy. We
Less guilt all have temptations, and the worst feeling is the guilt we feel in having a cookie.
We want our customers to feel guilt free.
We believe the best tasting food starts with all natural ingredients. We source
Natural taste organic ingredients, our kitchens work tirelessly to ensure our cookies taste
better amazing enough to become our consumer’s favorite.
We love food and we hope that it shows. Everyone on our team shows up every
Passion matters day with a passion to help make a difference and contribute to building Gray’s
Cookies into a brand that women love.
In blind taste tests, Gray’s cookies matched the market leaders on taste, but with
Do our only 100 calories, 2g of fat and 3g of sugar. In a 12-week study, consumers
homework using Gray’s once a night as a desert lost10 pounds.
Brand Strategy Roadmap GRAY’S
Cookies
Vision: Be the first ‘healthy cookie’ to generate the craving, popularity and sales of a mainstream cookie. $100Million by 2030.
Purpose: We help people re-discover the lost secret that the most amazing tasting food is made of natural ingredients.
Values: Consumer first, great taste, healthy, natural ingredients, fast-to-market, family owned.
Brand Idea: Grays are the best tasting yet guilt free pleasure so you can stay in control
Promise Brand Story Innovation Purchase Moment Experience
Real life stories that show Interrupt purchase routine
Take control of your weight We never sacrifice on We hope your weight
women living “All the to set up
by replacing your favorite taste, you won’t have to loss results empowers
pleasure, but none of the Grays as the better
snack with Grays. sacrifice your cookie. you to stay in control.
guilt.” alternative.
Goals: $100 Million brand by 2020, become a mainstream brand, increase usage, longer term penetration gains.
Issues: 1. How do we tighten the bond with our most loyal brand lovers?
2. How do we balance driving penetration and usage frequency?
3. How will we defend Gray’s leadership position in the Healthy Cookie segment?
4. How do we leverage “guilt free” idea across new food categories
Strategies Build community of Become alternative to Leader of healthy cookie Explore entering new
Brand Lovers mainstream cookies segment food categories
Tactics
• Social Media to connect • Drive penetration using • Dominate every store shelf
• Build “guilt free” idea
brand lovers advertising & nutritionist PR • Attack competitive entries
• Innovation focused on new
• Surprise and delight program • Continue to attract new users to • Leverage influence of brand
segments
to most loyal Gray’s lovers
• Early trial with brand lovers
• Geographic expansion • New flavor launches
“The two most important
days in your life are the
day you are born and the
day you find out why.”
Mark Twain
Stage Lighting Stage Lighting
= to a magical show
An added touch
GRAY’S
Stage Lighting
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D Stage Lighting
Love what
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The pillars of purpose
Focus your passion on building a tight
Stage Lighting A emotional bond with customers
We bring your actors faces to life Use exceptional
An added touch to a magical show Focus your • At Grays, we want to be the first stage
execution to passion on lights to create a magical show filled
become your building a tight
customer’s emotional bond with every expression and emotion.
favorite brand with customers
Build around a unique, ownable, and
B motivating brand idea
At Gray’s, • Grays stage lighting uses a HEX
our purpose technology to show every wrinkle and
Core is to help theater expression in an actor’s face.
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Broadway shows
• We have a love affair with the theater.
they could ever
C B We think like directors, yet we hustle
imagine.
like stagehands.
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driven culture to unique, ownable, Use exceptional execution to become
provide happy and motivating D your customer’s favorite brand
customer brand idea
experiences • We do our homework by conducting
in-theatre tests to see the impact of
our lighting on the actor’s faces.
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Vision: Be the lighting brand Broadway directors see as essential to their show. Make Gray’s a $100 Million brand by 2022.
Purpose: At Gray’s, our purpose is to help directors put on the most magical Broadway shows they could ever imagine.
Values: Passion for theater, think like directors, family-run, pride matters, and we do our homework.
Brand Idea: Grays are the best tasting yet guilt free pleasure so you can stay in control
Promise Brand Story Innovation Purchase Moment Experience
Every theatregoer Gray’s HEX lighting Our unique HEX Leading directors Magic happens
can experience the creates an added lighting creates speak out on Gray’s when our lighting
emotions on the touch of magic to shadows against behalf to influence connects the actors
actor’s faces. your theatre the brightness. the industry. with the audience.
Goals: Increase awareness, in-theater trial demos, hold share, increase off-broadway penetration.
Issues: 1. How do we shift Gray’s from a product-led launch into an idea-led brand to own “magic”?
2. How do we use loyal advocates to establish Gray’s in the production house buyer’s mind?
3. How do we defend against entry of mainstream lighting (GE, Philips) into the high-end stage lighting segment?
4. How do we keep growth momentum by closing the identified gaps in distribution?
Tactics • White Papers • Influential directors • Blitz current customers • Social Media program
• Video Story telling • Social media • Claims data vs competitors • East coast sales blitz
• Video interviews of patrons • Film one of the demos • Industry advisory panel • Direct mailer nationally
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