How to tailor a communication strategy in the defence sector Creating a communication strategy follows the exact same principles and the same steps for any company in any sector. We are firm believers in this based on our 8-step communications strategy guide. It’s our...
Context BMT’s ‘Highly Autonomous Warship Technologies’ (HAWT) offers a vision for the future of increasingly autonomous naval operations, underpinned by safe, secure and available lean-crewed warships. The company has conducted extensive research in collaboration with...
The defence sector is not short of subject matter For defence companies, when it comes to choosing your desired thought leadership topics, you're never short of opportunities. Autonomous operations, AI and machine learning, cyber security, drone warfare, climate...
The B2B Tech agency EC-PR has grown its team and won nine consecutive PR contracts London: EC-PR, B2B Technology PR agency, has seen significant growth in the past year, with the team growing from just two to seven, and achieving nine consecutive contract wins. The...
Back out, doing what we do best It feels like a long time since we’ve been able to join clients, colleagues, journalists and friends face-to-face at a trade show. As PR professionals, so much of our role revolves around our interactions with people, engaging with our...
Finding it hard to break into the defence media? Is there radio silence following your email pitches? Being successful at defence PR requires a little more than pitching Haribo. And whilst it doesn’t exactly take a masonic handshake to enter the writer’s realm, you...
Does our defence procurement process need to be more flexible and agile? The end of this week marks the deadline for industry to submit their proposals for the design phase of the UK Royal Navy’s Type 31e frigate requirement. As much as you can understand the reasons...
Gathering internal intelligence and building key relationshipsRequirement BMT is a global multi-disciplinary maritime engineering consultancy comprising 23 subsidiaries each serving clients in the energy, transport and defence sectors. The purpose of the research at...
Producing high-quality content that makes compelling readingRequirement Focus is the customer magazine for the BMT group of companies, a global multi-disciplinary maritime engineering consultancy, serving clients in the energy, transport and defence sectors. Produced...
How to be heard and understood by critical influencersRequirement BMT Defence Services Ltd offers whole ship design and technical support for submarines, warships and auxiliary vessels within UK and international defence. Running up to the Strategic Defence Review BMT...
The tangible outcome of the Messaging Lab is a fully-validated communication strategy which is aligned to your sales requirements including: a value proposition, segment prioritisation, target personas, positioning statements and messaging.
The Messaging Lab comprises a series of structured workshops and consultancy engagements that deliver actionable insights comprising:
– focuses on developing and evidencing your value proposition, segmentation priorities and target personas.
This process hones your understanding of potential target segments in order to decide which ones to proactively address. It ensures we know who we are engaging with and why; better targeting reduces waste and promotes marketing/sales collaboration.
– concentrates on forming and refining your positioning statements and messaging.
This helps you to save time and money by providing focus and specificity, rigour protects reputation against false or loose claims and elevates the communication.
It ensures that compelling messaging is developed for every stage of the buying cycle for each persona with whom you wish to engage.
– Comms strategy research with external stakeholders
This ensures the strategy is the best it can be, peer feedback is considered and on-boarded or actively rejected. Several iterations of the comms strategy may follow to ensure the strategy fits and resonates both with external stakeholders and sales and marketing stakeholders.
Once you have your strategy, we need to activate it by introducing it to the wider team, embedding it amongst stakeholders and making sure the available Marcomms tools are updated and aligned. There are six key tools in The Forge, which can be selected according to individual client needs:
…and to complete the package here’s a summary of our PR delivery process – The Bee Hive.
