Establish your core brand values with a London branding agency

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Founder of Brand Purist

Brand Purist, your brand values partner

Brand Purist is a London-based branding agency working with startups and small businesses globally. We help you define your core brand values, ensuring they resonate with your audience and guide your brand’s growth. Discover how we can help your organisation harness the power of authentic brand values.

What are brand values?

Brand values are guiding principles defining your organisation’s culture and behaviour. They can reflect what you believe in, the ideals you regard highly, or what you stand for as a brand. Brand values also serve as the foundation for decision-making, shaping everything from internal experiences to external communications. Strong brand values resonate with audiences, helping to foster trust, loyalty and emotional connection.

Posters featuring Shape Beyond’s brand purpose and core values.
Posters showcasing Shape Beyond’s purpose, core values and brand personality.

Key features of brand values

Crafting meaningful and impactful brand values involves several key considerations.

  • Relevancy:

    Brand values should be relevant to what you do and meaningful to audiences.
  • Authenticity:

    Your team should be able to live by the brand values and embody them every day.
  • Distinctiveness:

    Your brand values should help you stand out and differentiate from competitors.
  • Longevity:

    Brand values should be sustainable and act as guiding stars long term.

Why do brand values matter?

Strong, authentic brand values give your business a clear sense of direction, both internally and externally. They help build emotional connections with your customers, drive brand loyalty and differentiate you from competitors. Internally, they create a unified culture, aligning your team and guiding their actions and decisions. For consumers, brand values signal trust and integrity, often influencing purchasing decisions in a crowded market.

Our approach to brand values

At Brand Purist, we work closely with your team to uncover and define the values that truly reflect your brand. We begin by conducting an in-depth analysis of your business, audience and industry to understand what matters most to you and your customers. From there, we help you articulate a set of core brand values that serve as a strategic foundation for both your internal culture and external messaging. Whether you’re a startup building your brand from scratch or an established business looking to refine your values, we provide the expertise and guidance that make your values impactful, authentic and future-proof.

Brand values examples

We’ve partnered with businesses across various industries to establish strong, value-driven brands. Here are a few examples:

Mind Detect: tech recruitment with a purpose

Mind Detect has in-depth industry knowledge and years’ of experience recruiting talent for technology providers. Brand strategy workshops and customer feedback helped us uncover Mind Detect’s brand values:

  • Adaptive: Technology changes everything around us at a rapid pace. We are responsive and able to adapt to our client’s challenges.
  • Perceptive: We use a combination of insight and intuition to provide a valuable, human-centric experience to everyone we interact with.
  • Honest: We value relationships and firmly believe successful businesses are built on trust and mutual respect.
Photo of Gary Green, founder of Key Business Consultants. Pull-up banner in the Key Business Consultants boardroom featuring the brand’s values.

Key Business Consultants: entrepreneurial accounting

Talking to Key Business Consultant’s existing clients revealed positive perceptions and excellent customer experience. Gaining a deeper understanding of the business helped us crystallise the brand strategy. Key Business Consultants’s three foundational values have shaped the brand’s positioning:

  • Entrepreneurial: A can-do, enthusiastic attitude, helping clients overcome business challenges.
  • Straightforward: Accounting and business consultancy should be simplified, and built on openness and trust.
  • Attentive: Always keeping clients’ interests in mind, proactively seeking new opportunities to support them.

Frequently asked questions

  • Defining your brand values can take 1 to 2 weeks, depending on the level of research and stakeholder involvement required.

  • You’ll get a clear set of core brand values, along with guidance on how to integrate them into your communications, culture and marketing.

  • While your core values should remain consistent, it’s a good idea to review them annually to ensure they still align with your company’s mission and market dynamics.

  • Pricing is tailored based on the level of research and consultation needed. We’ll provide a bespoke quote after understanding your requirements.

  • Absolutely. Well-defined brand values serve as a foundation for company culture, influencing internal behaviour and enhancing team alignment.

Ready to define your core brand values? Brand Purist is here to help. Get in touch.

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Page last updated: 28 September 2024