Message & Content Strategy
Strategic and creative help to shape your message and marketing communications.
How do you describe what you do so that the right people are drawn to you? What’s the core message that underpins everything your business says and does, and how do you communicate that? What’s the best way to market a business today and get the message out? What exactly should you talk about on the website and social media?
Expert help to get your story, content & marketing right
Are you an owner or leader of a business with a complex service or product, wanting to get your message and marketing straight in a way that connects with customers and employees alike? We offer strategic and creative support to help your thinking and copywriting to help you communicate your brand story too – we call this service Message & Content Lab.
As a Message & Content Lab customer you’ll work directly with Sonja and Sharon to uncover your story and communicate it effectively through the content you create and share – on your website, via social media, and in person. Invaluable support at the start of any new branding, business development or website project, it gives you a powerful outside-in view of your business based on our unique method that blends stakeholder research with brand storytelling and strategic content marketing know-how. We also deliver training and workshops to help you engage the wider team and embed your new communications approach too.
We have a clear purpose, message, brand, website and content that we are all so proud of. And it’s driving fantastic results. We couldn’t have done it without Sonja and Sharon.
Looking for help?
Tell us about your plans.
How we help you:
- You tell us what you’re looking to achieve for the business
- We research and write your business story – a clear, meaningful message that articulates what you do, based on research with you and your leadership team and direct feedback from telephone interviews with clients and other stakeholders.
- We advise you on the best approach to your content marketing to help you get the story out and drive long term success.
- Sonja guides you on your branding and content strategy – how to align your business around your purpose and how best to take the message out via your website, social media, email and direct channels.
- Sharon writes your core messages, tone of voice guidelines, web copy and key content assets as required.
- Once the foundation is set, we offer long term support as your message and content partners as required, plus training for you and your team on business development, content planning and writing so you learn how to do it yourselves.
Build your brand and marketing on firm foundations
Message Lab sets you up for business development success. Sonja and Sharon will give you a firm foundation for your website and marketing – so you’re crystal clear on what to say and how to say it online.
How long will it take?
Approximately two to three months. We’ll ask for access to a cross section of your customers and leaders for telephone interviews, and time with you for planning and feedback.
How much does it cost?
Our average project fees are £8-15K depending on size of the project and the scale of the research required.
Impact on your business
You get a message and content that supports the sales process – driving more leads, referrals and sales. You’ll feel a new clarity and confidence in what you do, making it easier for you to attract the right clients and staff. The website becomes a filter as well as a magnet – this will save you time, attracting more of the right conversation and less of the wrong ones.
If you look at where we’ve come from and where we are now, it’s a quantum leap. We’ve got a website that really supports us all the way through the sales funnel.
Looking for support?
Find out about the Content Lab service
Is Message Lab right for me?
✓ Yes, if you have a branding or website project looming and you don’t know what to say to attract the right customers
✓ Yes, if you’re not clear on what content you should be sharing or how to get the story across
✓ Yes, if want help articulating your business story in a meaningful, customer-focused way
✓ Yes, if you want content strategy support for your business
✓ Yes, if you need expert copywriting support, and bespoke content creation for your website
✓ Yes, if you’re happy for us to talk to a range of your customers
✓ Yes, if you and your team are happy to get involved in the process – we’ll do the work but we need your input too
✓ Yes, if you have the budget to commit to getting this right
Hear from our customers
“They have enabled me, coached me and given me the confidence to share Wealth Horizon’s story widely. It’s engaging customers and industry commentators alike, and bringing our new business great results.”
Chris Williams, founder of Wealth Horizon Read Wealth Horizon’s content marketing story
Tell us about your project
Sustrans has been around for 40 years and much has changed along the way. As part of our recent strategy review we wanted to understand our audience and what people think about us. We didn’t want to rely on assumptions so we hired Valuable Content to give us that objective view through a series of telephone interviews with our stakeholders and rigorous analysis. Sonja and Sharon evidently cared about active travel issues and their interest and enthusiasm shone through. This resulted in quality conversations with a really wide range of people, and extremely valuable insight. The work has helped us to better communicate our purpose – what we do and why we do it – with clarity.
Thanks to the work with Valuable Content on our website, content and brand, we’ve gone from being relatively unknown outside the customers we’re working with at the time to being known about far more widely in the wider market. We now have a consistent message and distinctive way of describing what we do, with a library of valuable content to support sales conversations. We’re seeing more successful bids and we’re starting to see inbound leads from the right type of clients too. Overall there’s more confidence in the business – and a renewed pride in the Project One brand.
“I hired Sonja Jefferson of Valuable Content as a consultant to lead the design and development of the University’s first content strategy. We wanted to understand how we could use content to better support the student journey around applicant engagement and conversion, and so meet our strategic international student recruitment goals. Sonja brought deep content strategy and content marketing expertise and an outside-in view, which meant she could ask awkward but very salient questions, which, in a university context, is what is needed to make real change. The work facilitated an improved collaboration between offices, for a joined up strategy that cut across internal silos, delivering an approach to our content which was truly student-first.”
The work we have done with Valuable Content has greatly increased our brand awareness. Now people are coming to us instead of us always going to them.
I hired Sonja and her team to help me develop the new website for The Get Real Project–one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
What I love about Valuable Content’s work is that it is done with real integrity. They make no assumptions, and listen hard. Their research is rigorous, meaning that the content strategy they come up with is always genuinely valuable and written for the customer.