This is a great example of Rethink’s 3D Marketing Programme – ensuring that the service customers receive matches what’s being said in the marketing.
We started working with the brilliant Complete in January 2016 because they wanted to extend their lead over their competition through a redefined brand message and modernised marketing materials.
A really great brand is more than skin deep; it starts with an ethos that chimes with the customer, and then pervades every cell of a company from the inside out.
Complete are a rare beast – an estate agency who so wholeheartedly embrace this principle too, with a genuine desire not just to rebrand with a veneer but to ensure that their service sings the same song from top to bottom.
But it was their name – Complete – that seemed to offer a distinction ready to be exploited. And so we presented a
series of recommendations about their services that would bed-down the proposition that theirs was indeed the ‘complete’ service.
This included rethinking their property marketing – hiring a photographer and copywriter to make their property
pictures and words really stand apart from the competition.
We also redesigned their property details templates and redefined what information was contained on them.
Vendors love the result.
We also worked with Complete to set up a ‘Signature’ service for their highest-end property stock, which included initiating a separate sub-brand as well as an even higher quality of property brochure, which are now designed individually for each property.
It was also agreed in this instance that we would update their brand identity, to modernise it as well as broaden its appeal to upper-market vendors. The result, we believe, is a clean, distinctive, memorable and recognisable brand which doesn’t just look good, it communicates the ‘complete’ proposition as well.
This is underlined with a new strapline – thoroughly good property agents – to neatly encapsulate their ‘complete service’ proposition.
Using this new branding we redesigned every item, from business cards right up to shopfronts and signage, and a set of brochures to leave behind at valuations to ensure their ‘reasons for instructing us’ stayed with the client after the meeting.
Finally, we redesigned the content pages of the website so their messages were displayed loud and clear here too.
Will Smith, director of Complete said of the project: “Rethink have taken us on a journey on which we’ve all worked together to ensure that our rebrand was more than just a new coat of paint, but a new way of working that’s infused through everything we do. Their specialist knowledge of the estate agency business as well as marketing and branding is a rare combination. The result is we now have a service offering that’s strongly differentiated from our competition and a set of brand materials that look great and read well. This is already having a positive effect on our business and I am sure this will accelerate over the months and years to come.”
