Strategic Planning

Where you are versus where you need to be.

Our strategic planning services start by bringing clarity to your business model by studying and identifying trends in your industry and among your competitors. We map out your brand’s unique position in the marketplace. We analyze potential opportunities and threats and put you exactly where your products and services optimally meet your customers’ needs.

Faction develops online strategies and marketing efforts by first aligning the shared values of your organization and its target audience. We consider every possible delivery channel and context before identifying the best means of distribution. Using up-front research and analytics provides hard facts about consumer tendencies when searching for desired products and services.

Our methodology and disciplined framework provide a common language and project guide for both our project staff and your team members to follow. That means everyone who executes a given project or campaign can make decisions as they arise based on that shared strategic vision. This vested strategic interest has a tangible impact on our client relationships, delivery timelines as well as the overall quality of the work.

The bullseye inside the bullseye.

When you take a good, long look at your audience, do you really understand them? Do you know what motivates their decision-making? Do you know how they talk to each other, or how they talk to you? We feel that the best way to get to better know your audience is to try to crawl into their skin for a while. Do the things they do, talk the way they talk. It’s an immersive study in human behavior, and it has distinct business ramifications. We call them personas, and they’re just a small part of how we help your message hit its mark.

Equal parts snippets of phone calls, workflow conversations, happy hour plans and typography debates, “The Hum” is the aural brew that Faction Media steeps in every day. Inevitably, day-in and day-out, art directors hear accounting conversations, account staff hear developers’ conversations – it’s an education by osmosis.