Brand Canvas 5.0

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The Brand Strategy Canvas

Customer/User Insight

CREATED FOR:

DATE:

CREATED BY:

VERSION:

What do people think and feel regarding the category?


How are you relevant to those needs or desires?
What problem(s) do you solve for them?
What benefits of your company/product are most valuable to them?
What most strongly influences their decisions in this category?

Competitive Environment

What concepts and conventions define the category?


Who are your direct and indirect competitors? What defines them?
Where is the strategic void in the market?
Are you disrupting the category in any way?

Company/Product Features

What is the simplest description of your product and what it does?


What aspects of that are dierent from everyone else?

Rational Benefits

What are the tangible benefits of the product?


Which benefit is unique or most important?

Brand Positioning Statement

Company Values

Must meet all five criteria:


important, unique, believable, actionable, sustainable.

What are the values of the company?


(Usually expressed as nouns.)
How do the values of the founders influence
company values?
How do company values influence your
product, culture, or customers?

Audience

For:

Who are they and what is their


most important psychographic
need or desire as it relates to
the brands category?

Description

______________ is:

What is the simplest


description of the product?
Or what is the broader, more
strategic frame of reference?

Emotional Benefits

What are the intangible benefits of the product?


Which benefit is unique or most important?

Benefit

that:

What is the unique, primary


benefit or point of dierence
of the product?

Proof

Brand Personality
because:

What are the factual, meaningful


and provable reasons to believe
the primary benefit or point
of dierence?

Payo

so that:

What is the ultimate emotional


payo for the customer or user?
Does it answer the need in the
audience section?

Brand Essence
What is the core idea or defining
concept of the brand? Is it tangible
or attitudinal? (Unique, succinct,
pithy, and ideally 2-4 words.)

Key Messages
Whats your story?
What are the most important and dierentiating aspects of the brand?
How can you define them as quickly and interestingly as possible?

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What are the brands human characteristics?


(Usually expressed as adjectives.)

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