The B2B guide to brand strategy, positioning, messaging, and story
The brand-building fundamentals every B2B company needs to get right
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- 01. The case for more rigour (and less fluff) in B2B branding
- 02. 50 B2B branding terms you should know
- 03. Brand strategy: A worthwhile investment
- 04. B2B brand research: Get to know your brand, market and customers
- 05. B2B brand strategy fundamentals: Segment, target, position
- 06. B2B brand narratives: From positioning to one story that rules them all
- 07. B2B brand execution: Messaging, storytelling and content creation
- 08. B2B brand tone of voice: Find your voice in your positioning
- 09. Inconclusion rules
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The case for more rigour (and less fluff) in B2B branding
Branding agencies tend to be more about the theatre than the thinking. They justify work with dodgy frameworks and questionable logic. They misuse data. They get grandiose with purpose and vision statements that don’t really mean anything. They confidently cite dodgy neuroscience to legitimise their approach.
This isn’t to say that a branding agency that’s prone to archetype cosplay and Olympian leaps of logic can’t deliver effective B2B visual identities. They can – as long as they have solid, thoroughly researched positioning work to guide them, and the authors of that work (B2B strategists with a deep understanding of the product, market and audience) to consult with.
And there’s the rub. Branding agencies tend to be design-first and light on B2B strategy experience. Then they get approached by B2B businesses to think strategically, so they give it a go, and often get away with it. Because it’s only months and years after a six-figure rebrand that a B2B client will start to realise that — as pretty as their brand might look — their brand strategy isn’t fit for purpose.
A strategy-first approach
Brand strategy isn’t about aesthetics, or creativity, or big ideas. It’s about making evidence-based decisions that guide all branding efforts. It’s about formulating a plan about how a brand will compete in a market to achieve business objectives.

This plan should involve:
- Establishing which audiences — particularly prospects and customers — to target.
- Working out what the business should represent in the minds of these targets (the positioning phase).
- Creating a strategic brand narrative that sets the stage
Once you’ve completed these steps, you can bring your positioning and brand narrative to life creatively and consistently, so that every visual and verbal expression of your brand reinforces its perception in the minds of your audience.
This guide sets out how you do this.
No, you don’t have to start with ‘why’
While we’re at it, don’t listen to the agencies that insist your brand needs a ‘why’ or a higher purpose. In B2B tech, your ideal customers probably care more about what you’re selling and how it can help them.
Sometimes having a ‘why’ can work as part of an effective positioning, but more often it won’t.
Undergoing a strategic process (involving research, targeting and positioning) will help you get to the right answer.
Sometimes having a ‘why’ can work as part of an effective positioning, but more often it won’t.
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50 B2B branding terms you should know
Beneath What actually is brand strategy? What does positioning really mean? Maybe you kind of know the answers but would struggle to put them into words if pressed? Our glossary of terms should help. Why not save it as a favourite on your browser, so next time you’re in a meeting and realise you don’t truly understand some of the words and ideas being bandied about, you’ll be covered.
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Brand strategy: A worthwhile investment
Centuries ago, branding was about marking cattle with hot irons. For B2B companies nowadays, it’s about making a mark through brand assets – verbal or visual (or even auditory – think ‘Intel Inside’). In the long term, these associations become a shortcut to brand meaning. In the short term, they can propel a customer towards a sale.
A strategic approach to brand-building is critical in B2B tech markets, where products and services tend to be complex, and it can take months or even years for a large committee of buyers to make a decision.
You need a compelling, coherent, and convincing brand – and brand story – that sets a course for growth, stands up to buyer scrutiny and brings everyone along with you.
Brand strategy powers lead generation too
The raisons d’etre of B2B marketing departments can be fairly – if a little reductively – thought of as longer-term brand building combined with shorter term lead-generation and sales activation efforts.
Brand building is about developing a brand image and reputation that your target audience notices and remembers. On the other hand, lead-generation efforts tend to be about persuasion – setting out reasons to buy now.
As different as these two marketing activities can be, effective brand strategy and the appropriate positioning of a brand and its products will power success in both. You can expect a return on investment in other areas too:
- Improved customer loyalty and repeat purchase.
- Increased penetration and sales volumes.
- Superior advertising effectiveness.
- Higher prices and better gross margins.
- Upstream attraction and pull effects.
- Sustainable differentiation.
- Market orientation.
- The ability to diversify into new categories.
- Better, harder-working, (and, whisper it) lower-paid employees.
If you’re a SaaS startup or even scaleup, these examples of intangible brand value might sound as out of reach as they are compelling. Certainly, expert commentary on the practice of branding has a habit of failing to recognise the gulf in brand possibilities, priorities and approaches between startups and scaleups on the one hand, and established big brands on the other.
If you’re an IBM, Microsoft or Salesforce, salience (being top of mind for the moment when audience members are in the market to buy) is a priority. But salience simply isn’t a realistic aim for many B2B tech startups or scaleups. For these businesses, finding product-market fit and establishing credibility are more realistic short-term brand ambitions.
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B2B brand research: Get to know your brand, market and customers
Brands exist not in a set of guidelines or on your website, but in the hearts and minds of target audiences. It’s important to appreciate that fact, no matter how big or small your brand. So it follows that working out how to win those hearts and minds is the task at hand. Here are some research techniques that can help.
Look within the organisation
An obvious place to start your research phase is to look to see what your predecessors or colleagues have already done. You might unearth a long-forgotten piece of research into your SaaS product, a positioning document, a ditched brand strategy, or unpublished content. Don’t be afraid to reach out to predecessors on LinkedIn to find out where the bodies (of work) are buried.
Get searching
A couple of days of Googling, LinkedIning or ChatGPTing nowadays can unearth deep and broad insights. Look for research projects, industry articles and third-party reports.
Cheat with proxy data
Find proxy data online. For example, if you want to discover which competitor has the most engaged audience, look for social media data such as Likes. Or for share of voice in your market, find out the share of search on Google: simply measure the total organic searches made for a specific brand, and divide it by the total number of searches for all brands in that category.
Speak to the board
Book your time with leaders and use it wisely. These are the people that should know the market and your company strategy better than most. It’s also your opportunity to secure leadership buy-in for your strategic brand work. When it’s done right, this stuff doesn’t just live in the marketing department – it steers and accelerates the overall company journey. So your leadership team has to be involved early and often.
Leverage departmental knowledge
Conversations with the sales, product and customer-success teams are essential. But also look to other departments in your business for their unique perspectives.
Interview loyal customers
This is arguably the most high-value form of research you can do. No matter what your sales or accounts team say, no matter how little time you have, do everything you can to sit down for 30 minutes or an hour with several customers who love you the most and/or pay you the most money. Learn about their pain points, and why they rely on your brand or product. You could open an invaluable roadmap to attracting similar buyers. And you might find they have views you didn’t expect about the primary strengths and weaknesses of your brand or product – or even its fundamental purpose.
Observe customers in action
Watching different customers actually use your product can give you insights you wouldn’t be able to pick up in interviews. Setting up site visits could pay off big time.
Do a brand survey
Conducting research on a specific segment or segments of a market is easy nowadays. Research companies like YouGov, Kantar, Nielsen and Ipsos can help you recruit a representative sample of your target market – for example, senior accountants in agricultural equipment manufacturers.
The questions you ask should be split up into three types:
- Demographic and firmographic – such as age, gender, employer size, location etc.
- Attitudinal – such as perceived benefits of relevant technology, competitive alternatives, standard of service etc.
- Behavioural – such as buying behaviour, and whether buyers would recommend a particular solution.
Test with focus groups
As useful as focus groups can be, they won’t be cost effective or feasible for many SaaS content marketing research projects. But at the very end of a strategy phase they can be invaluable. Put together a focus group for each of your target segments, then test whether you have chosen the right segments to target, and whether your positioning ideas work.
AI research
Proponents of AI-generated synthetic data (even marketing’s most famous cynic Professor Mark Ritson) argue it’s as good as real data, delivering a 95% match to real survey results. Then again, Professor Byron Sharp, Director of the Ehrenberg- Bass Institute for marketing science, said in 2025: “AI should be able to match market research at 90%+ accuracy because I could easily write a program to do that. It’s the few % points of difference where almost all the value of market research exists. Fake data is worthless.” Hmmm, the jury appears to be out…
Audience research software
There are several SaaS services — like Lyssna or UserTesting —that make it easy to set up research studies by building representative audiences. But in our experience they have a tendency to deliver low-quality responses in the B2B context. So beware!
A pragmatic approach to your research
There can be many barriers to carrying out the discovery phase of marketing — not least internal politics, limited time, a lack of budget and resources, inaccessible customers, or a lack of knowledge about research best practices. Take comfort in the fact that your job is simply to gather knowledge, in any way you can, to make your life easier.
Even if you can’t gain access to any customers as part of your research process, there are still ways to gather essential information. (We discuss these in more detail in the next section).
It’s easy to become overwhelmed at the start of the customer research process. But getting moving and staying on course is easier than you might think. Curiosity rules. Work out what you want from the research from the get-go. By knowing what answers you ultimately need, you can form a set of questions to ask of
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B2B brand strategy fundamentals: Segment, target, position
Business strategy is about making choices and trade-offs. As competitive strategy expert Michael Porter famously says: “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
It follows that B2B brand strategy is made up of a set of activities that require us to define certain parameters — like who or what we’re competing with, what our differentiators are, and what type of value our brand or product delivers our target market.
The good news is there are established frameworks and methodologies that can help us arrive at the right answers and an effective B2B brand strategy. The bad news is every B2B brand strategy project is different (different timelines, budgets, number of products, target audiences etc) so there isn’t a universal framework that can unlock every one. A flexible approach, using frameworks as far as they work for the situation at hand, is the secret.
Kotler and his STP framework

Professor Philip Kotler is widely recognised as the father of modern marketing. His approach can be summed up by a quote from the 2021 edition of his Marketing Management book: “A company discovers different needs and groups of consumers in the marketplace, targets those it can satisfy in a superior way, and then develops a value proposition and positions its offerings so the target customers recognize the benefits of its offerings.”
So following Kotler (and the syllabuses of most marketing MBAs taught around the world) we:
- Segment the market into distinct groups of buyers with shared characteristics of traits (for example: geographies, job roles or industries). This allows you to tailor marketing efforts to suit each segment.
- Then we prioritise groups to target making strategic choices about which groups we don’t go after with our finite marketing resources.
- Then we try to position our brand or product favourably in the minds of our target customers (as Al Ries and Jack Trout set out in the 1960s), with a message that aligns our brand
Without solid segmentation, we can’t effectively target. Without accurate targeting, we can’t successfully position our brand or product. Without appropriate positioning of our brand or product, we won’t be able to come up with ideas and stories that connect with our buyers. Often you’ll need an overarching positioning for a brand, and then — if you’re a multiproduct company — positionings for all of those products too. Adapted positionings for each target segment are sometimes necessary too.
Embrace flexibility in your strategic approach

In B2B tech marketing, products and markets evolve quickly. There’s almost always pressure to move fast – whether that’s with a rebrand, or a more simple product repositioning. So the traditional, MBA-style approach to brand strategy, based on extensive qualitative and quantitative customer research, isn’t always possible.
April Dunford, probably the world’s leading B2B positioning expert, favours a more pragmatic approach to brand strategy. She tends to work with B2B tech companies at early stages of growth and is comfortable building strategies based on inputs from senior team members.
We often follow this approach at Beneath (though we’re always anxious to gather as much customer input as the situation allows). Depending on the size of the company, we’ll conduct between six and 15 interviews with members of the executive team and leaders in product, sales, marketing, customer care and other relevant departments.
There are six key questions we ask to help us shape a company positioning and the brand narrative that comes from it.
Why must your story be told now?
Capture a moment of significant change or a challenging state of affairs in your customers’ world. This demand trigger is the relevant backdrop to your story.
What market category do you want to be in?
In other words, what type or product or service are you offering? Note the use of ‘want to’ here: on some (quite rare) occasions it might make sense to create a category. Or you might simply need to reframe the context in which people think about your offering.
What defines your ideal customer?
Identify who needs to hear this story, and who doesn’t.
What do you help them achieve?
What is it that makes you the hero? Showcase the value, benefit or outcome that you ultimately give them. It also helps to show the danger of the status quo, to add danger and urgency. This can help you establish the villain of the piece, which can be anything that’s holding your audience back — like an outdated way of doing things, an inefficiency, or external forces like regulation or an economic downturn.
What are your competitive alternatives?
What are your potential customers using instead? Bear in mind that these might be recognised competitors or some kind of homegrown solution… or nothing. This is what you need to de-position.
What makes you better than the alternatives?
What value or USP do you offer that none of these alternatives can, and that the people out there sorely need? This is the magic you bring to the party.
In reality, these six questions lead to dozens more throughout the input process. But it’s an excellent framework to give you the answers you need to form a brand strategy.
Solve the positioning puzzle

There’s one little problem. In the absence of clear data from customers, answering these questions can be a bit of a conundrum. The challenge to overcome is that the answer to each question has a dependency on the answer to the other questions on the list.
So a definition of an ideal customer depends on the value you offer them and what you help them achieve (because the reason a customer is a good fit is that they care a lot about your value – that’s how value is defined).
Similarly, the value you offer is determined by your unique capabilities (because if your value is not unique it’s not as valuable). Meanwhile, what makes you better than the alternatives is defined by comparing yourself to an alternative. (Otherwise, it’s not unique.)
So you need a starting point to work all this out. April Dunford explains that a good order to proceed in is to:
- Understand what the competitive alternatives are to your solution.
- Then work out what unique capabilities your product has.
- Then work out what value only your product provides (differentiated value).
- Then decide which characteristics of a customer make them care about that value (ideal customer).
- Finally, you can establish exactly what market category or context you win in.
Dunford argues that the best-fit target market becomes obvious after this process. In other words, the customers who care most about these strengths become clear. She argues that it can be a mistake for a brand to try and define a target market before truly understanding their own value.
Break your strategy model to make it work
The truth is frameworks have to be bent and broken in different situations. Sometimes you will be very clear who your target market is in the first place. If so, proceed on this basis.
One day you might find yourself positioning a brand with multiple products. In this instance, trudging through a step-by-step positioning process for every product and segment might prove to be a Herculean and pointless task.
A better approach might be to cut to the core of why you matter to all your different customers. Your positioning statement needs to be at a high enough altitude to be relevant to all your customers, but low enough that it conveys a unique value to them, preferably a value that rival businesses can’t match.
The takeaway? Borrow from frameworks, but afford yourself the freedom to think logically about each situation on its own merits.
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B2B brand narratives: From positioning to one story that rules them all
Now let’s step back for a moment and consider what a positioning really is. A positioning is what we want our audience to think about us. It’s what we want to stand for in their minds.
The output of a positioning process is a positioning statement that contains the answers to the key questions we asked in the input sessions. In reality, the classic positioning statement (below) isn’t all that helpful.
For [target customer],
who [has this need or problem],
our product is a [product category]
that [primary benefit or reason to believe].
Unlike [competitor or alternative], our product [key point of difference].
What you really want to get from your positioning process is a number of factual statements that answer those key questions and serve as the ingredients for all your messaging and marketing.
But our audience members have busy brains. There’s no way we’re going to get them to remember a list of facts that speak to how our company or product provides the best solution for a specific problem of theirs.
So we need to create memorable ways for them to remember a couple of very key ideas about us. That’s where marketing comes in – we create all kinds of assets (ads, ebooks, videos, sales decks, product materials, and customer experiences in general) to try and embed that positioning.
But there’s a crucial step before this in B2B tech marketing: the creation of a strategically considered brand narrative that communicates your positioning in a way that gets your prospects to sit up and take notice.
What you really want to get from your positioning process is a number of factual statements that answer those key questions and serve as the ingredients for all your messaging and marketing.
How to build a brand narrative
A B2B brand narrative is in many ways a story about why a company exists (where it’s taking people rather than where it’s come from). It’s about the distinct value a company brings to the world. Specifically, to a certain kind of customer with a certain need.
It should make a complex topic simple and interesting, while motivating audiences to act in a certain way. It becomes a story structure that guides all brand activities from marketing campaigns to internal communications.
The elements of a brand narrative are defined and refined during the brand positioning phase. For example, one of the first questions we ask company stakeholders in positioning-input sessions is: Why must your story be told now?
We probe them about how an industry is changing, and the challenges this poses for customers. This can be a relevant backdrop to a compelling story as it sets the scene for a narrative about how your brand can help customers overcome these challenges.
Brand story or brand narrative?
For all intents and purposes, you can use story and narrative interchangeably in the context of your brand messaging. Sometimes narrative is a more useful term because it reflects the fact that a brand narrative serves more like a framework for telling stories and hitting the right messages in various contexts. It’s not just a discrete story with a beginning and an end that you recite verbatim.
The trick is to craft a narrative that persuades customers a new product or a new mindset is worth their consideration and intellectual investment.
A change-in-the-world story
Silicon Valley brand strategist Andy Raskin has long argued that the best brand narratives for tech companies describe a change in the market, then position a company offering as the key to thriving in this new reality.
The trick is to craft a narrative that persuades customers a new product (a ‘new way’ of doing things) or a new mindset (a ‘new game’ to play, to use Raskin’s terms) is worth their consideration and intellectual investment. Change-in-theworld stories can be extremely powerful. But bear in mind our warning about getting hung up on frameworks.
Sometimes the logical output of your positioning process might lead you to focus your brand narrative on simply positioning against an industry leader. Sometimes it will be a straight-up description of the value you offer. Our article, 7 kinds of positioning for B2B brands, highlights some different approaches to crafting a brand narrative.
What should a B2B brand narrative look like?
A B2B brand narrative should be digestible and memorable for company stakeholders, but have enough detail to make sense. Between 150 and 400 words is a good range to shoot for. It’s not necessarily a customer-facing message. But often brand narratives can be used as a company manifesto, appearing on website About pages.
The brand narrative’s ultimate (and probably most important) expression is the headline or tagline that distils your message down to a concise phrase and prioritises clarity over cleverness (but a mixture of both is always nice).
Sometimes you might have two or several taglines (for example, one that articulates a change-in-the-world story, and one that describes the product in more straightforward terms. Again these can be customer-facing or not. Taglines don’t have to appear on website homepages, but often they are the perfect H1 headline.
What should a B2B brand narrative sound like?
Here are five brand narrative traits worth emulating. To make them more memorable for you, we’ve elegantly crowbarred them into an alliterative structure.
Clarity
Your story is a logical argument presented creatively. Before anyone can buy into it, they have to understand it. So after you’ve finished your brand positioning work, check that you’re clear about a few key things: your target audience, the premises of the argument you’re making to them, and the logic that should carry them irresistibly to the conclusion that they need what you’re selling.
Conflict
B2B stories are a bit like short stories in that they’re essentially about change. But they have more in common with Hollywood blockbusters, where conflict drives the action and maintains suspense. So identify your protagonist’s deepest desires, raise the stakes, and stick a villain in their path.
Celebration
Once you’ve piled on the doom and gloom, it’s time to offer salvation. Your customers have faced an existential threat, but (spoiler alert), a hero has emerged to save them (that’s you). It’s a cause for celebration! Company-branded bubbly all round. Spread the good news.
Credibility
As the narrator of your brand story, you’re hardly reliable on your own. You need to back up your claims with credible proof. Pitching for investment? Tell them all about your founders’ amazing qualifications, your beta product and your super-long waiting list. Selling to prospects? Show them how you’ve already won and wowed companies like them.
Character
By the time you’ve worked on all of the above, your story should already be brimming with character. The best brands (and their stories) have vivid personalities, but this isn’t something you hastily slap on slide 48 of your brand deck. The same applies to tone of voice. Character isn’t just how you tell ‘em – it’s what you say. If you have a story worth telling, and you have fun while you do it, its style will emerge with its substance.
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B2B brand execution: Messaging, storytelling and content creation
With the brand narrative in place, the next step is bringing it to life in all the places your audience(s) will see and hear it, ensuring every visual and verbal expression of your brand aligns with the story and reinforces it.
Riff and adapt as required — for thought leadership, specific product stories, different audiences or channels, and so on. Add colour and nuance to suit the context, but always let the brand narrative guide.
And remember, your narrative isn’t just for customers. Tailor it for investors in a pitch deck, or for employees and prospective employees in recruitment, onboarding and employer branding content.
The importance of getting the message out
If your brand narrative is your strategic North Star, a carefully crafted messaging document is your, erm, compass.
A good one will help people across your company (not just the sales team or marketers) amplify your positioning and brand narrative with confidence and consistency, creating a series of stories that ladder up to your story of stories. Far from curtailing creative expression, it should provide a foundation for it.
A messaging document should be easy-touse, readable, as comprehensive as budget allows, and if possible, fun. It should also follow its own advice – this sounds like an obvious one, but you’d be surprised…
Make sure to include descriptions of the elements that helped you put the positioning together in the first place — like the core value proposition, audience pain points, and competitive differentiators. There should be supporting proof points, and sample passages of messaging.
At Beneath, we like to include ad-style pieces of creative to show how the positioning can be brought to life (these are often used by clients in real campaigns too).
Finally, the messaging document should include tone-of-voice guidance… or [screech of brakes] should it?! In fact, what does tone even mean?
It’s a can of worms, so we’ve dedicated a whole section to it. Read on. And don’t worry, it’s warm, friendly-yet-professional and authentic stuff.
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B2B brand tone of voice: Find your voice in your positioning
Tone of voice is a term that describes the way a brand expresses itself through language. But there is a healthy debate in marketing circles about what this means in practice.
There is a longstanding, widely held and arguably not incorrect point of view that tone of voice is simply how a brand says things. That is to say, tone is about purely stylistic choices pertaining to style, rhythm and pace. This results in tone of voice directives we’ve all heard before like “ Be friendly” or “Avoid formality”.
However, this framing is problematic in practice. Because if what is being communicated (the message itself) doesn’t align with how it’s being communicated, then the brand isn’t expressing itself appropriately or effectively. This sounds like an easy problem to avoid (and it is in theory), but you’d be surprised how many brands do things in the wrong order, prioritising the how over the what. Sadly, a lot of the trouble is caused by agencies selling elaborate but ultimately shallow tone of voice services.
You’d be surprised how many brands do things in the wrong order, prioritising the how over the what.
An emergent tone of voice
At Beneath, we believe the most important takeaway is that tone of voice should serve a strategic objective. It should be emergent from strategic work and captured once we are clear who we are targeting and how we want to position our brand in their mind. As a strategic output of the brand’s positioning, tone of voice is far from decorative. It’s a feature of what we’re trying to say as a brand. It is indivisible from the positioning and messaging work.
By following this principle, tone of voice embodies and strengthens a positioning, just as design does from a visual perspective.
This leaves an important question. Should tone of voice be only emergent from a brand’s positioning (which for B2B startups is likely to change several times over the course of a decade)? Or should tone of voice be a more enduring reflection of a brand’s DNA?
The answer is ‘it depends’. Certainly, there is an argument that brands with a long history, heritage and substantial brand equity might not want to totally change the way they speak in a way that risks alienating their loyal and adoring audience. (Then again, sometimes there might be a strategically important reason for doing just that).
For a young B2B tech brand, evolving the tone of voice along with a positioning will usually be far less problematic from a brand equity point of view
Does “TOV” need a rebrand?
In a recent (unsurprisingly controversial) LinkedIn post, Harry Ashbridge — Ex- Head of Writing at Monzo — argued that tone of voice is an unhelpful descriptor because “how you say things” should cover stuff like structure, content and other aspects of writing, which the term tone doesn’t sufficiently imply on its own.
Ashbridge argues that tone of voice guidelines should instead be called “writing principles” because tone is “about up-front thinking to make sure you consider your reader’s needs”. He adds: “It’s about structure and information hierarchy, to make sure you’re making what you say digestible.”
According to Ashbridge, done well, tone of voice isn’t a superficial, ad-hoc process that can “zhuzh up” a bit of flat copy. He argues: “Good writing principles force people to think about content, structure, context, audience, and a whole host of other things alongside.”
Now there are grey lines to this stance. Not least the question of where messaging ends, and where tone of voice begins. (However, there is a convincing argument to be made that messaging will change for different campaigns, while foundational writing principles are more universal and should endure longer.)
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Inconclusion rules
So that’s it: a guide to B2B brand strategy, positioning, messaging and story – delivered, as you might have noted, with a bunch of caveats.

At Beneath, we’ve learnt from a wide range of marketing and strategy thought leaders (people like Jenni Romaniuk, Roger Martin, Mark Ritson, April Dunford, Michael Porter, Byron Sharp, Andy Raskin, Doug Kessler and Stan Woods). But every positioning or brand project we’ve been involved with has demanded a unique approach, or a nuanced interpretation of long-held wisdom.
A slavish devotion to strategic frameworks or processes can lead to long and painful bouts of mental gymnastics and much wasted energy. Trust us, we know.
It was only when we freed ourselves to apply logic in abundance, based on the data available and the unique circumstances of a particular brand and audience, that our effectiveness as marketers leapt.
And when all’s said and done, this is what strategy, positioning, messaging and story is all about. Not creativity for creativity’s sake. Not grandiose ideas. But applying creative thinking to a logical backbone. And in so doing, building a foundation for effective marketing that creates awareness, generates interest, inspires action and builds revenue.


