Briefly โ Fixing a black hole in marketing budgets
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You read that right. A third of all marketing budgets are being wasted on bad briefs ๐ That's $75B/yr wasted in the US alone ๐
We're trying to solve that with Briefly.
Hey Hunters,
Here's what you need to know:
*The Problem*
1. The marketing brief is the single most important document in a marketing campaign ๐
- The brief is a distillation of the clientโs business into the problem they need their agency to solve - think of it as the springboard for the campaign.
2. Writing good briefs is hard and most briefs are bad ๐ณ
- Agency satisfaction rates with the briefs they receive are 10%! That means 90% of briefs are considered โpoorโ.
3. This costs companies a lot of money ๐ธ
- The seminal piece of research in this area estimates a third of all marketing budgets are wasted on poor briefs and misdirected work (thatโs $90B/ yr in the US alone).
*The Idea*
Grammarly for briefing best practice ๐ซ
- Tips, prompts and live feedback to help marketers write killer briefs, every time.
*Who we are*
My nameโs Gabriel, my co-founder is Ewan.
- Weโre based in London
- We graduated from Oxford & Cambridge a couple of years ago and both ran headfirst into the ad industry
- Iโm now client side (working on user acquisition for a fintech unicorn) and Ewan is a strategist at Saatchi & Saatchi
- Together weโve seen thousands of briefs and we're fed up of reading bad ones and seeing clients not feeling they have the support, structures or training to write good ones.
- So, that's why we started Briefly...
โก๏ธ If you're a marketer that uses agencies for creative work, I'd love for you to try our Alpha (it's free for the first 100 people to sign up).
You can find it at: https://www.trybriefly.com/alpha
We think you'd get real value out of it and we're keen to hear your feedback.
If you're not a marketer, forward this on to your marketing friends - derrr ๐
Buttt also feel free to drop into our Discord or follow us on LinkedIn for product updates and marketing memes (sorry, 'insights').
https://discord.gg/BrYhCHhQur
https://www.linkedin.com/company...
Ping me your Qs in the comments and if you think this looks cool, don't forget to upvote ๐ฌ
Thanks so much!
Gabriel
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โ Gabriel Sayers