BRAND

POSITIONING.

Our strategic brand positioning offering helps you craft a clear brand story to differentiate your business and unify your organisation.

Crafting a clear brand story.

To sell high-value services to the corporate C-Suite, global B2B companies must demonstrate their intelligence advantage. Brand positioning is the smart business growth strategy for Intelligent Brands®: it shows that you have the best ideas, people and technology to help customers navigate what’s next. 
 
Man Bites Dog specialises in brand positioning that unifies complex organisations. Our unique end-to-end approach develops your brand story and takes it from thought to market, delivering reputation, relationships and revenue – and increasingly talent attraction, employee retention and real-world impact.   
 
We specialise in turning brand stories into sales by mobilising a core narrative throughout your organisation, supporting your positioning with powerful messaging and a clear call-to-action for your services. 
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Our Brand Positioning services.

Man Bites Dog develops messaging that clearly and concisely tells your story. We then amplify this story through thought leadership campaigns, content and activation across marketing, communications, and business development, augmenting the voices of your own people.  

Our brand positioning services include:  

  • Market and competitor analysis   
  • Reputation and perception audits  
  • Brand architecture (structures for products / services and sub-brands) 
  • Value proposition development (including customer pains and gains) 
  • Messaging frameworks and messaging houses 
  • Tone of voice guidelines, playbooks and competitor battlecards 
  • Thought leadership strategy, including campaign ideas and message banks 
  • Brand narrative storytelling  
  • Creative visual identity and brand assets  
  • Go-to-market positioning  
  • C-Suite positioning / profiling  

Man Bites Dog brings a global mindset and specialist B2B experience to our brand positioning work.  

We deploy our end-to-end strategic marketing capability and our expertise in C-Suite storytelling to build Intelligent Brands®. Our brand positioning work is underpinned by our Data & Insights Lab and brought to life by our Content & Design Studio.   

Our Brand Positioing approach.

Man Bites Dog combines the commercial strategy of a management consultancy with the big ideas of a creative agency and the data and economic insights of a business intelligence firm. 

Our brand positioning offering combines insight, creativity and strategy to help global brands stand out and sell their services to the corporate C-Suite. Brand positioning plays a key role in shaping a business and unifying your organisation behind a clear, central message, whether that’s following M&A activity, new leadership or a rebrand. 

We start by developing a clear ‘brand idea’ for your organisation aligned with your strategy, your competitive advantage, and your opportunity for growth. We then co-create a ‘brand story’: a compelling narrative and associated messaging framework that brings your brand idea to life.

We can help you tell a clear story that will differentiate your business, bring your organisation together, and stimulate demand for your services. This ensures your people, customers and prospects understand the value you bring.

Our Brand Positioning work.

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"The quality of the Man Bites Dog team’s strategic thinking and creativity helped us to develop a new and distinctive narrative to rally others and help drive the change we need to see in the world."
Chris Quick, Head of Marketing and Brand Reputation, ACCA
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Why is brand positioning important?

There is power in clearly defining your place in the market. Businesses like yours are defined by what we call your ‘brand idea’. It’s the cornerstone of your identity: what you stand for, why you matter, what value you can add, and how you help your customers. It’s the essence that sets you apart in a crowded space.

Nowhere is that truer than in B2B, particularly sectors like professional services, financial services and technology, where attention is scarce, disruption is rife and choice is abundant. As competition for growth is intensifying, your strategic brand positioning matters more than ever.

As an Intelligent Brand®, you may face the challenge of differentiation: struggling to communicate your point of difference when selling services or technologies that may seem similar to your competitors. Or you may find that your organisation is fragmented after undergoing major change such as an acquisition, and you need to create a unified identity, join the dots across your company, and reenergise your people behind new leadership and strategies.

The benefits of brand positioning.


Focus
Brand positioning enables you to make informed decisions on where to focus your time and resources for the greatest impact.
ALIGNMENT
Give internal teams and external partners the power to align around a common purpose. It’s more than products and services, it’s about your brand, your purpose and credentials, plus your wider impact on society. Put simply, alignment drives understanding and success.
MARKET RELEVANCE
Brand positioning keeps you relevant and ahead of the curve. It helps you to anticipate market trends – such as GenAI, quantum computing and ESG – and position yourself as the navigator of your market. That includes ensuring your brand idea is discoverable in AI-powered discovery platforms where tomorrow’s decision-makers are already searching for trusted insights (and partners).
ENERGY
Aligned internal and external positioning drives energy and action, both within your organisation and among external stakeholders, including your clients, relevant communities and industry peers.
DIFFERENTIATION
Identify what sets you apart and demonstrate your unique value proposition.


In an AI-powered world where content is commoditised, brand positioning enables brands to demonstrate their intelligence - anchoring their story in original ideas, data and insights. Intelligent Brands® are those that challenge convention, bring clarity and shape big conversations, rather than adding noise. 

At Man Bites Dog, we fuse data and storytelling to create brand positioning that helps multinational CMOs lead with authority and credibility.

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