Your company branding is not something that stops with marketing. It’s about how everyone and everything within your organisation connects with prospects and customers, at every touchpoint.

This is most important at the key decision-making moments, when people are choosing you or your competition. We encourage clients, once they have created content brand guidelines, to apply them first to their key sales assets:

These key sales documents are where you have to be at your most succinct, which makes content prioritisation a little easier to grapple with. Once you have a really effective precis of your offering and its benefits, it often makes it easier to review longer-form content, such as a website, and be more critical of secondary content. It helps develop the analytical skills to say: “Do we really need to say that? Why?”

The power sales and marketing teams speaking with a single, unified voice

Sufu can help your sales people as well as prepare your sales assets. Our content brand guidelines always contain a sense of how your brand should make people feel. That is just as applicable to soft skills as it is to formal messaging. We’ve seen many times how sales people sometimes feel the need to interpret brand into their own language and terminology, in order to feel comfortable in describing it. Sometimes that provides useful insight into how the brand should be developed, but the important thing is that your brand language doesn’t drift in tone or purpose.

The larger your team, the more important this unity becomes. Having someone with an independent view can help ensure cohesion, without it becoming an “us vs them” battle between sales teams and a central marketing department. Sales people are often not listened to enough, but they spend the most time with clients, they hear what’s important to them. Any review of your brand should begin with that insight.