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Property Marketing & Creative

About Us

At Brand Acumen we specialise in engaging people in place. We work with you to ensure they’re inspired to connect with your development story, no matter what the project – residential, mixed-use precincts, commercial, government or institutional.

Our focus is to work with you in realising your vision in the smartest, most inspirational and effective way. As a collective, our knowledge and understanding of property marketing, branding and advertising is unique.

When coupled with our strong project management experience, we deliver the perfect mix of commercial and creative acumen for our clients.

Let’s build something great together.

Curating inspiring place stories.

Services

Our passion is growing inspirational property brands.

We collaborate with marketing, development, sales and community teams to distil a project vision and deliver creative and strategic communication that drives leads and ultimately sales results.

We utilise marketing, creative, media, social and production resources, along with property image makers, public relations and event services. We create and manage compelling stories that connect people to place.

 

Client Partner

We provide a seamless, integrated offering to support our clients from inception to place activation and delivery.

 

Ways of Working Options:

We can provide you with full marketing and creative support or a specific, tailored approach to fit your current needs.

+ Whole or part project management
+ A specific tailored approach
+ One off, key deliverables

Service Phases

Our services are designed to complement your development process from site acquisition and run in parallel with your preconstruction, construction and post construction stages.

Discovery & Feasibility

Brand Acumen will assist you to define the potential value and opportunity during the initial stages of assessing and securing a site.

Our research includes amenity, community, market, competitors and target audience analysis.

If your project is established and a brand refresh and repositioning is needed, we provide tailored audits to discover fresh opportunities to focus on. Audits can include stakeholder insight workshops, customer journey analysis, mystery shopping the sales journey and signage audits.

Our Place Site & Recommendations Report will define the potential of a site and include next step recommendations.

Outcomes

  1. Discovery & Feasibility Analysis
  2. Audit Results Guide
  3. Place Site & Recommendations Report

Site Vision, Story & Narrative

Utilising the findings from a Discovery & Feasibility Analysis, we unlock a site’s full potential in alignment with your place & product goals. We provide detailed recommendations for the site design, layout, finishes, first staging and timing plans.

Key Place Themes are identified related to the community, site heritage, amenity and geography of the site. The place story is crafted with recommendations for the narrative execution, ultimately informing character, tone of voice and values.

Our tailored vision and story recommendations are best defined during the site planning and place design stage of a development’s journey. Consideration to your Sales & Information Centre, and if relevant a Builder Display Village, form part of our strategy guide.

Outcomes

  1. Site & Product, Stage, SIC & Display Village Recommendations
  2. Vision, Story & Strategy Guide
  3. Place Themes & Pillars with Narrative Defined
  4. Community Partnership / Retail Strategy
  5. Stakeholder Benefits Matrix

Brand & Creative Expression

Our brand development service distils your point of difference and elevates it to achieve media cut through and inspire your customer.

We utilise site and community heritage references, current market and competitor research, demographic data and insights into your target market’s lifestyle to build your story.

An inspirational brand persona and related key messages form the basis of your project’s story and positioning. We identify next step actions to connect your place to community and stakeholders.

Outcomes

  1. Name & Identity
  2. Creative Items & Communication Elements
  3. High Level Campaign Themes & Directions
  4. Next Step Actions

Activation Strategy – Place & Community

Activation strategies for place and community are defined with a thorough understanding of your project, place and target audience.
Site specific features, your master plan design, your budget and your preferred timing of development will guide our recommendations.

Knowing your brand story and narrative will be key to a well targeted strategy, utilising inspirational creative and a tailored multi-channel approach to reach your audience and build your lead and sales funnel.

Outcomes

  1. Strategic Recommendations Guide
  2. Customer & Sales Journey Guide
  3. Calendar of Activity
  4. Budget

Place Marketing & Creative Delivery

As an extension of your team, we assist with the rollout of your marketing brand, creative and campaign initiatives, including the delivery of creative assets and coordination of key suppliers.

In-market campaign and creative delivery includes image management, all signage and collateral requirements, experiential events and milestone celebrations.

Our service includes customer journey design recommendations and installation of Sales & Information Centres and Builder Display Villages design recommendations.

Outcomes

  1. In-market Calendar & Campaign Delivery: Multi-Channel Brand, Campaign and Project Launch or Refresh
  2. Builder Display Village / SIC centre: Installation & Launch

Marketing Management

To ensure a new brand, a brand refresh or mature brand continues to hold a market leading relevance and position, we provide oversight and support of the strategy, market presence and communications for select property clients.

Effective management support requires scheduled access to client project team meetings to collaborate with marketing, development, sales and community client teams.

Outcomes

  1. Highly Collaborative Marketing Management
  2. Strategy & Tactical Recommendations
  3. Media, Creative, PR and Socials Oversight
  4. Task Management

ROI Success Reporting

Monitoring, measuring and reporting on activities is essential for effective delivery and improvements to capital committed to project marketing and communications.

We assist with insights and reporting on the effectiveness of creative, media, digital, socials and PR that drive leads, referrals and ultimately sales and leasing outcomes.

Outcomes

  1. ROI Reporting
  2. Budget Measurement & Review

Our Team

Projects

Our property development experience encompasses residential masterplan communities, apartments, commercial, mixed-use precincts and government.

To find out more about our project experience and to get the conversation started about your next project, reach out using the contact details below.

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Get In Touch.

Call +61 7 3544 5278, or send us an enquiry via the form below:
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