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Capstone Brand Partners

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Capstone Brand Partners determines the strength of your brand by uncovering critical key audience insights, assessing the competition and developing a strategic plan to achieve your strategic goals. We research, branding and strategic marketing solutions that will amplify and optimize your distinct brand.


Marketing Research & Brand Assessment

We'll research and assess current brand strength, relevancy and alignment with your strategic goals to determine how to strengthen your brand.

Market Research

With our marketing partners, SImpsonScarbevaluate the current strength of your brand. We'll review existing research and, as needed, initiate new ethnographic and traditional research to determine what your key constituents are thinking and saying about your brand. We then evaluate your brand based on relevancy, degree of competitive differentiation, authenticity and alignment with institutional vision and strategic ambitions.  

Communications Audit

Via our communications audit, we'll evaluate current brand expression—messaging and visual representation—to determine how well your brand is being articulated, integrated and understood by your key constituents.  Based on these findings, we'll identify gaps and opportunities and provide messaging and visualization strategy to bring your brand back into compliance and alignment with target audiences.  a description about this item


Branding

If it is determined your brand needs to be updated and refreshed, we will help you develop a thorough scope of work, craft an effective RFP, find and on-board the right-fit agency partner. And, with our partner, SimpsonScarborough, we can also provide full-service branding expertise.

Scope of Work Development

We start with an evaluation of your MarComm objectives and internal resources. This allows us to develop an accurate scope of work from which we will draft your RFP.

RFP Writing & Distribution

Writing an RFP that accurately captures and articulates your unique scope of work, timeline and deliverables will assure you find the right-fit partner and save precious time and resources.   

Agency Search and Evaluation

A successful and rewarding agency partnership begins with the successful engagement of key internal stakeholders in the selection process. We'll help you compose your committee and run an efficient and successful search process.


Based on your specific goals and needs, we will generate a pool of the best pre-qualified candidates and create an orderly internal review and rating process. 


Specialized Brand Engagement

We'll work with your team to more fully engage the #1 source of alumni connection—your alumni magazine—in print and digital formats. And, in order to optimize your annual fund performance, our young alumni, preference-based, direct marketing strategy will to help you boost engagement and increase donors and dollars from this critical segment.

Alumni Magazine Redesign

The latest results from the CASE Member Magazine Readership Survey reinforce the importance of alumni magazines as well-read, highly regarded sources of news and information.  With over 35 years of magazine publishing experience, we work with your editorial and design teams to refresh content strategies, improve storytelling, integrate brand and smartly incorporate institutional advancement messaging. We'll guide the process and/or provide a full redesign that unleashes the power of brand-inspir

Annual Fund Strategy

The annual fund is the entry point of the giving funnel.  Dramatic drops in participation rates by younger generations are raising serious unrestricted funding concerns, both in the short and long term. Engaging young alumni requires a well-informed strategy that addresses growing mobility, communication preferences and giving motivations.  We will work with your team to develop and execute a proven, multi-channel approach to increase the engagement and participation of this critical audience. 

Ambassador & Influencer Engagement

When the buzz of a launch begins to fade, how do you turn up the volume once again? Influencer marketing is a vital tool for amplifying your brand. We'll show you how to locate, engage and even reward your brand evangelists for using their social media platforms and personal networks to amplify your brand. We will help you operationalize your brand via proven faculty, staff and new hire ambassador development programs. 

On-site Workshops

Capstone Brand Partners can develop and deliver customized workshops designed to elevate overall team performance and provide professional development opportunities for your staff. We can assist you with half or one day programs which we conduct on your campus. Topics include those below or we are happy to develop a workshop specific to your needs: 

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