Messaging Toolkit

Messaging Toolkit

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Clear, concise, and compelling messaging makes it easy to understand what you do, why you do it and why someone should engage with you. With more than one million words to choose from in the English language alone, there’s no excuse for using words that are confusing, convoluted or boring.

This toolkit will walk you exactly how you can find words that are as unique and compelling as your mission. You’ll start by grounding yourself in the Engagement Cycle. Then you’ll use a Messaging Roadmap to move step-by-step through the process of developing a Messaging Platform.

Find your words. Increase your impact!

Messaging Toolkit

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Engagement Cycle

Messaging Roadmap

Messaging Platform

Tool: Engagement Cycle

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You probably think you need an ‘elevator pitch’ as part of your messaging

repertoire. good news—you don’t! What you need is a series of pitches that moves

people along an Engagement Cycle—from knowing about you, to understanding

you, to engaging with you. an elevator pitch mashes all three of these pitches into

one. This is what makes them creepy and awkward.

You want each of your pitches to be 10-15 words max. They should be words that

you would actually say (vs. those that might be read, which can be a bit more

formal). This tool lays out exactly what info you should include in those 10-15

words at each point along the Engagement Cycle.

Engagement Cycle

KNOWThe ‘know’ pitch answers the question: ‘What do you do?’ You want a pitch that is remarkable – meaning interesting enough for people to remark on it to you and (pay attention because this next part is very important in terms of word-of-mouth marketing) to others.

UNDERSTANDOnce you’re on someone’s radar, i.e. they know you exist, you need to make sure they really, truly understand what you do and why you do it. Of all the organizations out there, why should they engage with yours? What makes you special? Compelling? Unlike any other? Your ‘understand’ pitch answers these questions.

ENGAGEDonate. Advocate. Volunteer. Buy. This pitch answers the question: ‘How can I engage?’ This is the pitch that moves people from learning to doing.

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Tool: Messaging Roadmap & Platform

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how can you organize all the amazing things you want to share about your

organization in a way that makes sense? It’s a toughie. What we tend to do is share

our everything, rather than our essence. and that’s a bummer because when you

share your everything, the person on the receiving end remembers nothing. not good.

The Messaging Roadmap goes hand-in-hand with the Messaging Platform. The

Roadmap walks you through a step-by-step approach to developing memorable

messages that will resonate with your key audiences. Then you put the messages into

your handy dandy Messaging Platform and share it with everyone in your organization.

and voilà—you have messaging that is concise, compelling and repeatable!

For detailed instructions and companion videos are available here.

MessagingRoadmap

Messaging Plaform

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Belief Proposition

Supporting Message by Audience

Audience

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Unique Differentiators Meta Message

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WE hoPE you found This ToolkiT usEful!

Here are two other tools to help you market your mission:

Pitchfalls: why bad pitches happen to good people

1, 2, 3 Marketing Tree

Thanks for making the world a better place,

The Claxon Team

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