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What I do

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​Steps towards your power brand

Strategy

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Research & analysis

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To gather valuable insights, I combine research with interviews, speaking to employees, clients, and other key stakeholders. I use a structured question set, tailored to your specific goals and context. These insights form a solid foundation for the brand strategy and the workshops that follow.

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Workshops

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Through collaborative workshops, we get to the heart of your brand. We clarify your brand purpose, promise, personality, and values and define your Why, How, and What. Together, we explore how your promise translates into meaningful customer benefits, and how your brand can be made tangible in experience and communication.

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Brand fundamentals

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Your brand story is at the core of who you are and inspires a creative direction. In addition to your story, we bring all other brand fundamentals together in a brand book that’s both foundational to your business, beautiful and practical.

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Design direction & Management

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We create a visual direction that captures your brand personality and reflects the spirit of your purpose. Whether working with in-house designers or creative partners, I guide the creative process to ensure the output is consistent, distinctive and on-brand across every touchpoint.

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Internal Activation

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Your people are your first brand ambassadors. I help turn strategy into tools, rituals, and campaigns that make employees feel the brand — so they deliver it naturally to customers.

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Optional: make your customer experience fully branded

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Branded Customer Experience
From brand promise to business impact.

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Branded CX brings your strategy to life in every moment of the journey, driving loyalty and growth.
 

​​My approach – in 5 steps

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1. Experience scan & brand audit

We review key journeys and service moments to identify where the brand is showing up, where it fades, and where the experience feels off-brand or too functional.

 

2. Insights & alignment

Through interviews, mapping and team sessions, we uncover where the brand promise is (or isn’t) being felt — and identify the moments that matter most emotionally and strategically.

 

3. CX principles & experience themes

I define branded CX principles that translate your strategy into decisions on tone, interaction and behaviour — clear, practical and tailored to your brand’s personality.

 

4. Strategic experience design

We zoom in on your most important journeys or moments of truth — shaping how the brand promise can be made tangible in ways people feel, not just see.

 

5. Activation & embedding

I help bring it to life with your teams — embedding the brand in flows, tools and day-to-day decisions across UX, content, service and product.

 

Curious to know more? Contact me

Branded CX
Design Direction
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Merk / Brand

Melief / I cherish​

© 2025 Merk Melief

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