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Building a strong brand takes time. It’s the process of creating a compelling, positive perception that is aligned with internal stakeholders and external audiences.

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HELPING BUILD A STRONG BRAND AND

NURTURE A POSITIVE REPUTATION

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Understanding your Brand and Reputation
why it matters

Managing your brand and reputation is vital to an institution’s continued long-term growth and success. However, effective branding goes far beyond a logo, color palette, or slogan. 
Your brand is your culture, what makes you unique, and the story you tell about your brand allows you to create an emotional connection with your stakeholders.

Brand Transformation Framework

A comprehensive framework that encompasses rigorous market research, brand development and
multi-channel marketing, helping universities build a strong brand and nurture a positive reputation.

Discovery

Perception research to understand your current brand position

01

Development

Messaging framework to articulate your brand narrative

03

Activation

A bespoke marketing plan to implement your new brand creative

04

Monitoring & Optimization

Annual audit to assess impact on perceptions

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Discovery

Conducting brand and reputation research helps to identify the opinions and attitudes on your brand, held by stakeholders.
Our in-depth brand audit spans six key modules and uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative research to  highlight the internal and external perceptions of your brand, and greater awareness of where your brand position is now and where it needs to be.

Development & Creation

Defining your culture can be a difficult task. The Development phase will create a clear brand position that establishes emotional, meaningful and long-term relationships with your stakeholders. 

The Consultancy team will work with you to articulate your brand and bring the brand narrative to life –  including the creation of a messaging framework, thought leadership papers and rich media solutions.

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Activation via the world’s largest higher education community

With an engaged global audience of over 65, 000, 000 annual visitors, and a sector-leading events series, THE and IHE established platforms for today’s leading institutions and those that serve them to deliver a powerful message to an engaged and targeted audience of students and/or professionals.

Optimization

Our Brand Tracker provides a light touch, annual quantitative assessment of any impact to your brand’s reputation. Supported by a review of your digital brand – to assess the impact on performance metrics such as web traffic, reach and engagement –  to jointly agree the priorities, actions and activities for the next 12 months.

Our 5-Step Management Process

Your dedicated team of consultants will work collaboratively with you and your key stakeholders throughout the project – from Discovery through to Monitoring & Optimization
Project Initiation
We’ll allocate a project team and agree the project scope, timescales and ways of working
Define
We’ll agree on the
competitor set, panel specifications, and messaging/brand statements to test.
Research
We’ll design, build, and test surveys or topic guides to deploy to our agreed audiences
Analyze
We’ll review results from surveys and interviews to identify trends and themes
Report
We’ll share our findings and any recommendations through a written report and presentation 

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Brand