The marketing consultancy with brains, guts & heart.

Setting your brand on a course for success.

Not getting the results you hoped for from your marketing?

Let’s discuss how we can change that.

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We will help you identify what truly matters for your brand’s success.

Effectiveness

You can’t scrimp your way to success. That’s why we’re not a cost-cutting consultancy; we will make your existing resources work harder by ensuring you focus on the things that add genuine value. Both in the short term and in the long term. And if you let us, across all four Ps of marketing.

Evidence-based

Marketing success follows clear rules and principles. The latest fads don’t change that, no matter what the current buzz is. We understand the connections and can determine the relevant success factors for you and your brand.

Independent

Why should you listen to our recommendations and strategies? We earn our living from well-founded brand and marketing strategy consulting, not implementation. That’s why we can advise you objectively and prioritise the levers that will bring you the most benefit. Without self-interest and without being restricted by a specific implementation perspective.

These brands and unicorns already trust us:

We fix what’s broken.

Diagnosis

We will pinpoint the problem that is holding you back from success. Because once the problem has been identified, the rest is simple. To grasp the problem correctly, we will delve into your data, analyse the market and people, compare all of this with our benchmarks, and uncover the patterns behind the symptom. If necessary, we can also fill knowledge gaps with our own researchers.

Our promise: we speak uncomfortable truths.

Brand Health AnalysisGAP AnalysisBuyer AnalysisMarket Potential AnalysisRoot Cause AnalysisSales Performance AnalysisDrivers and Barriers Analysis

Strategy

Strategy requires focus and clear goals because strategy is primarily about what you don’t do. Based on your problem, we will define a clear strategy that steers you towards the right goals. And thereby improves the situation. We will always consider your company’s reality so that you can implement our strategies with your other partners and make them part of your company culture.

Our promise: strategies tailored to your specific problem.

Brand Strategy and PositioningBrand ArchitectureCommunication StrategyKPI ForecastingMarketing StrategyMarket and Audience SegmentationMedia StrategyMoments of TruthPortfolio OptimisationAudience Insights

Implementation of the four Ps

The moment in the process where strategies either die or take off. We will help you get your implementation specialists (creative agency, media agency, internal partners, sales, etc.) excited about the strategy and set them on the right path. We will evaluate implementation ideas and assess whether they are strategically correct. We will help clear the obstacles.

Our promise: we speak the language of your partners. Including your CFO.

Comms Effectiveness CheckDistribution OptimisationPricing OptimisationProcess OptimisationProduct Design PretestingStakeholder ManagementAdvertising Material Pretesting

Measurement of success

No strategy is perfect because situations change. That’s why it’s essential to regularly monitor, learn and readjust. We will set up KPI and measurement systems for you that keep all relevant control variables in view. Together, we will discuss the implications and help you integrate them into your actions. This way, you will become more effective instead of drowning in a sea of data.

Our promise: we measure what matters for control, instead of mindlessly accumulating all available data.

Brand TrackingKPI and Measurement SystemsKPI and Sales ModellingResearch Set-up and Consulting

“Die Zusammenarbeit mit PUNCH ist von einer hohen Professionalität geprägt und selbst in „heißen“ Projektphasen im besten Wortsinne unaufgeregt und sehr zielgerichtet. Dadurch hat uns PUNCH immer einen Kompass gegeben, welcher uns zu besten Ergebnissen gebracht hat.”

Armin Haery, Senior Director Global Marketing, John Frieda

“Die Beratung von PUNCH schafft echten Mehrwert. Sie kombinieren strategische Exzellenz mit hohem Drive und sind ein starker Sparringspartner, den man gerne an seiner Seite hat.”

Benedikt Lemsky, Head of Brand Marketing, BURGER KING Deutschland (heute: Director Marketing seven.one Entertainment Group GmbH)

“Ich schätze PUNCHs Kundenorientierung. Auf inhaltlicher als auch auf menschlicher Ebene sorgen sie immer dafür, dass alle mitgenommen werden und bringen eine fachlich fundierte, auf viel Erfahrung basierende eigene Meinung ein, mit der sie uns im Sinne der Sache challengen. Die breite Palette an Kompetenzen ermöglicht uns dabei, mit einer Agentur ganzheitlich zusammen zu arbeiten und gemeinsam auf allen Ebenen voranzukommen.”

Ebba Grebe, CMO Melitta Kaffee