PLANT YOUR FLAG. In collaboration with client teams, MC helps plot revelatory connections between brand, consumer and marketplace to define an ownable position businesses can claim outright and righteously defend against all-comers.
CLIENT & BRAND IMMERSION
BUSINESS OBJECTIVES
CATEGORY ANALYSIS
BRAND ATTRIBUTE HIERARCHY
RECOMMENDED STRATEGIC POSITIONING
STATE YOUR BRAND IN FIVE WORDS OR LESS. Informed by deep strategic insights, MC crafts a short, simple yet massively disruptive conceptual statement that becomes the core expression of the brand — and its launchpad for greatness.
PLATFORM CONCEPTS & DEVELOPMENT
BRAND STATEMENT SUITE (MISSION, VISION, VALUES, PROMISE)
KEY CONSUMER MESSAGES
INTERNAL CULTURE GUIDES
SET THE TONE. MC singles out a brand’s most authentic and human character traits to create an image, voice and personality audiences can relate to, believe in, and won’t call BS on.
PERSONALITY PYRAMID
BRAND VOICE DEVELOPMENT
INTERNAL COPY STANDARDS
MESSAGING WITH PURPOSE (PLUS STYLE POINTS). Like passionate artisans, MC crafts words into shared brand-consumer worlds, recognizing that while entertainment value plays a role, moving people to meaningful action is how great ad copy earns its keep.
BRAND MESSAGING
ADVERTISING (BROADCAST, PRINT, DIRECT)
PRODUCT & COLLATERAL
RETAIL & SHOPPER
WEBSITES, DIGITAL & SOCIAL
DARE GREATLY OR DON’T BOTHER. MC traffics in big, ambitious ad campaign concepts able to cross over all media, from traditional to social, for fast-acting, long-lasting impact.
CREATIVE CONCEPTS
DEVELOPMENT AND COPY
CROSS-CHANNEL EXECUTIONS
MAKE A NAME FOR YOURSELF. Forgettable or off-base brand names fail to connect and fade into obscurity — or worse, get mercilessly mocked on social media. MC develops strategy-grounded, conceptually driven business, product and app names that catch fire, outlast fads, and live forever.
NAMING CONCEPTS
REFINEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
STRATEGIC VALIDATION & ORIGIN STORY
AVAILABILITY & OWNABILITY VETTING
FRIENDS IN THE INDUSTRY. MC teams with a tight-knit cabal of killer visual talent — including graphic artists, web designers and production houses — to materialize words and ideas into the final creative product clients proudly take to market.