Every Western customer is exposed to 8,000 commercial messages a day.
And that’s before he walks into a supermarket and has to choose between the 37,000 lines on display, all shouting for attention. So how does he choose? How do you get his attention?
There’s only one way - by being remarkable.
Unless your product, brand, service or message is remarkable, it’s invisible – lost in that blizzard of other messages and images. How do you know if you’re remarkable? You don’t.
It isn’t you who decides. Nor does your agency. The person who decides whether you’re remarkable is your customer. And it can be for all sorts of reasons... large and small, tangible and intangible.
It’s our opinion that every brand has something remarkable about it. You just have to find it.
Like the sculptor who carved an elephant out of a block of wood famously said: ‘The elephant was always there; it just had to be revealed.’
So that’s what we do, with our Remarkable System – an unscientific and unapologetically human process that reveals the remarkable essence of your brand and consists mainly of conversations.
We start by having conversations with the brand – with you and your people, the brand’s owners.
Next, we have conversations with your customers. Long conversations, with as many different customers as we can. It’s not really market research, it’s having a chat.
Then, after internal strategic and creative work, we identify, isolate, package, re-express or redesign the thing that makes the brand remarkable.
And finally, we develop the strategy and create the communications that deliver it back to your customers.
Now, as any marketeer will tell you, our system is highly qualitative and its conclusions lack statistical validity. We agree. But if you look at our case studies, you’ll find something remarkable. It works anyway.