Brand & media management: message development

How do i.d's methods apply to the mediasphere? If you're a PR pro, avid marketer, or consumer advocate, it's all on this sequence of pages.

1 Information gathering
2 Message development
3 Situational analysis
4 Campaign creation
5 Results analysis

Brand equity is built by your audience - who's talking about you, what they think of you, what the buzz is around products and services. But how do you separate signal from noise, when the noise may be made up of a million media sources all talking at once?

By listening with a critical ear. Getting a grip on the whole conversation, then shaking out the list of topics most in evidence across all media coverage. That lets us see which publications and sources are most relevant to the market you're in - in other words, which conversations you need to be part of.

From there, we can build your message matrix, bringing order to that list of topics. Splitting down by audience, tone of coverage, and shades of positivity (and negativity.) What your market is saying about your sector, your products and services. You know what we're talking about.