When the story stops keeping up
When the business moves on, the brand story can fall behind.
Growth, new services or a shift in audience can leave the brand sending outdated signals.
Customers struggle to see what the business has become, who it is for and where its strongest value now sits.
01
MARKET
DRIFT
The offer, audience or ambition has changed. The brand still describes an earlier version of the business.
When every service competes for attention, customers have to assemble the answer themselves.
Organising the offer around their priorities connects your capabilities and creates a clearer route from need to decision.
02
Audience complexity
Different audiences need clearer routes into the offer and stronger reasons to care.
Teams describe the offer in their own language.
The website, sales conversations and campaigns begin telling separate stories, making the brand harder to remember, trust and choose.
03
MESSAGE
FRICTION
The website structure and marketing content make customers work too hard to understand the value.
01 / CORE
Two working sessions anchor the process.
Evidence creates focus. A facilitated workshop turns that focus into shared decisions about the brand and the business behind it.
01 / DIAGNOSIS
Start with
evidence.
LUMO examines how clearly the brand is seen, understood and trusted. It identifies the gaps that deserve attention first.
BRAND
Clarity speaks
volumes
EXPERIENCE
Connection creates belonging
AUTHORITY
Confidence earns
trust
LUMO BRAND AUTHORITY REVIEW
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02 / ALIGN
WORKSHOP
Make the decisions together.
A facilitated working session helps the leadership team agree what the brand should mean, how it should behave and where it should focus.
Purpose
Audience
Position
Character
Voice
Direction
The ReThink Brand workshop
02 / METHODS
The tools behind
the decisions.
Open each method to see the role it plays. The mix changes with the brief, so the work stays focused on the decisions your business needs.
03 / WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
A ReThink
Blueprint.
One practical strategic foundation for your brand, website, marketing and sales activity.
01
BRAND POSITION
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MESSAGE ARCHITECTURE
02
PRIORITY AUDIENCE
05
CREATIVE PRINCIPLES
03
BRAND CHARACTER
06
PRIORITY ACTIONS
THE RETHINK PROCESS
Listen. Diagnose. Define. Align.
Leadership conversations, customer evidence, market research and workshops create a shared view of the business.
We surface the ambition, assumptions and pressures shaping the brand.
01
LISTEN.
Understand leadership ambition, customer needs and business pressure.
02
DIAGNOSE.
Identify where the brand story and experience have lost clarity.
LUMO evidence, customer signals and competitor patterns show how clearly the brand is understood, recognised and chosen.
The findings turn broad concerns into focused priorities for brand, sales and marketing.
We decide who the brand is for, the value it owns, how the offer is organised and the story that makes its expertise unmistakable.
These choices give identity, experience and communication a common foundation.
03
DEFINE.
Make the strategic choices about audience, value and direction.
We translate the strategy into a practical narrative, message structure and decision framework.
Leaders, teams and partners can use it across sales, marketing, customer experience and future brand development.
04
ALIGN.
Agree the priorities and create a shared direction for action.
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
A strategic brief that connects brand, website and market action.
02
STRATEGIC NARRATIVE
Defines what you say.
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Core story - how your ambition, expertise and customer value connect
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Message hierarchy - what people need to understand first
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Proof - the evidence that makes your story believable
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Audience focus - who the brand needs to matter to most
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Value proposition - the value you can credibly claim
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Difference - why customers should choose you
01
POSITIONING
Defines the place you want to hold.
03
VISUAL IDENTITY
Defines how the strategy should look and feel.
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Creative direction - how the strategy should look and feel
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Design principles - direction for colour, type, imagery and tone
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Design brief - a clear foundation for the ReFresh phase
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Priority moments - where recognition, trust and choice are shaped
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Experience principles - how the brand promise should be delivered
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Friction points - what needs to improve across key touchpoints
04
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Defines how it should be delivered.
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Shared meaning - what the brand means for people inside the business
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Brand behaviours - how it shapes everyday choices and actions
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Alignment - how leadership, employee and customer experience connect
05
BRAND CULTURE
defines how people bring it to life.
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Priorities - what needs to happen first
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Roadmap - the order of work across brand, website, sales and marketing
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Ownership - who carries each action forward
06
ACTIVATION
Defines what happens next and in
what order.
