WELCOME TO BRANDS START HERE
1-2-1 BRAND ADVICE FOR STARTUPS
AND ENTREPRENEURS
Start your business right
If you are reading this, chances are you are embarking on starting your own business.
How exciting! How liberating! How daunting!
We know. We’ve done it.
And we want to help you get your business off to the best possible start.
BRANDS START HERE was created to offer brand advice and branding packages to startups and entrepreneurs.
We created BRANDS START HERE because hardly anyone else is offering brand advice to startups.
As Steve Forbes, Editor in Chief of Forbes magazine, says “Your brand is the single most important investment you can make in your business.”
Creating your brand should be at the top of your to-do list as a startup. You need to think about your brand first. To give you focus; for everything else that comes with starting a new business.
And we are here to help.
Your business’ brand and your branding are two very different things.
Your brand is the personality of your business – the DNA that should run through everything you do.
While your branding is the way it looks on the outside. The stuff that people will see, that will help them recognise you and make them think of your brand.
It stands to reason that unless you define and create your brand first, you cannot get your branding to work as it should.
For more information about the difference between your brand and your branding, read the BRAND v BRANDING article.
BRANDS START HERE will work with you to create your brand first. Only then, will we help you with your branding. That’s the right way to start your business.
You could spend all your time, money and energy trying to get someone to buy stuff from you, or you could get them to fall in love with your brand. That way, they will buy from you again and again. And, they will get their friends to buy stuff from you, too.
“Giles has helped us to think strategically about our marketing. He forces us to seriously evaluate who we are as a company and how we communicate that to customers.”
A.A.
“Working with Giles is a pleasure. He has a calm, confident and down-to-earth approach. He doesn’t use jargon or sales-speak, which we found refreshing. He has the calm confidence of someone who knows what they are talking about, and genuinely takes the time to understand your personality and your business.”
A.W.
“Giles’ ideas and design skill will add worth to any organisation that seeks to go through a similar project to the one that we undertook.”
D.R.
“Working with Giles has allowed me firstly to better understand what it is we do for our clients but also to then convey that in a much clearer and more powerful fashion.”
J.B.
“Working with Giles has definitely allowed us to improve and broaden the way that we communicate our messages.”
C.G.
“Giles has helped us to explore all aspects of our business and we now have a clear brand identity and path for the future. He has a way of pinpointing the important elements and putting them across in a concise and easy to understand manner.”
T.W.
“We were impressed by how quickly Giles grasped the nature of our business. He has a good grasp of what we are actually looking for, even when we ourselves are uncertain.”
P.R.
“We have created the brand in record time after the merger of all these disparate companies and we are punching way above our weight.”
I.D.
“I’ve now worked with Giles on the launch of three businesses. The main reason being that Giles is not only a creative force to be reckoned with but unusually for a creative brings commercial nous.”
P.D.
“Giles not only works with you to draw out and improve your brand, but the attention to detail and commitment I found inspirational and even now with my brand well and truly on the map I still feel his support and commitment.”
J.B.
“I really feel clearer about the direction of the business going forward.”
L.H.
“Giles has been instrumental in helping me plan the next part of my journey to market. When I needed to identify the real value we were offering to both sides of our marketplace his work allowed me to articulate the benefits of my business to my target audiences, in plain language.”
A.H.
“I worked with Giles on a branding project for a local small business. Giles literally walked the business owners through the branding process, they felt involved and empowered, and the process re-ignited their passion for their business.”
H.G.
“Giles’ knowledge of branding and its impact on business is exceptional. His advice would be an asset to any business.”
M.H.
“Giles uses his experience at some of the world’s biggest advertising agencies and applies it in a small-business, intimate setting.”
A.M.
“I have worked with Giles as his client several times in my career and I find him to be strategically imaginative and purposeful in all his efforts. I would have no hesitation in working with him again or recommend him to anyone requiring a clear direction for their company.”
B.T.
“Giles helped us with our initial branding. The branding was clear, imaginative and effective and many people have commented on this work.”
A.H.
Giles came up with excellent and imaginative ideas. I’d recommend Giles for his professionalism and depth of experience.”
E.B.
“I really enjoy working with Giles. A thorough professional with business acumen made exceptional by his creativity. He is completely client focused in his search for original and effective solutions.”
J.R.
“I would work with Giles again in a heart beat. Giles is an inherently strategic creative. He could concept his way out of any problem. I highly recommend Giles for any assignment – he’ll give it his all.”
J.Y.
“Giles really has an amazing knack for peeling the onion layers back in search of the perfect creative concept – no matter how challenging. He’s someone you definitely want on your side.”
B.H.
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“Giles is full of knowledge, expertise, enthusiasm and he is very giving with his time and with his contacts and with that expertise. I found throughout this process that he’s been able to really listen to my needs and my aspirations for my brand and then help me to distill that into a brand story that feels really authentic. Which is so, so important when the brand is really all about you.”
N.O.
“I loved working with Giles! He’s been instrumental in helping me plan the next part of my journey to market. Giles and I met when I was so immersed in my start-up that I had almost lost the power of normal conversation. When I needed to identify the real value we were offering to both sides of our marketplace his work allowed me to articulate the benefits of my business to my target audiences, in plain language. He was a massive help! I would recommend Giles to anyone who is involved creating a brand for their business and wants some great insight into their product or offering.”
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