Spiceworks Global Brand Strategy / Spiceworld
Image is crucial, and Spiceworks required one that reflected the strength of their extensive, borderless, collaborative networking platform comprising over 5 million IT experts. Initially, we collaborated with key stakeholders to clarify Spiceworks' objectives, challenges, and mission during their expansion. By auditing existing assets and resources, we started to establish a unified and intuitive brand architecture that could be easily recognized worldwide. After understanding Spiceworks' structural identity, we shifted our emphasis to their cultural identity. The next step was to develop messaging. We created a framework that succinctly defined the brand's identity, purpose, promise, mission, core values, and vision. A major focus throughout this process was to ensure that everyone involved in building Spiceworks agreed on the brand's new direction. To maintain alignment at every stage, The Weinheimer Group collaborated with Spiceworks' design team to embark on an exploratory mission for a comprehensive, multi-iterative logo design. Once we identified two suitable options, we worked together with Spiceworks' research and marketing teams to conduct focus groups, testing, and legal reviews. Ultimately, we assisted the internal design teams in creating a new logo that symbolized the redefined brand as a unique, disruptive innovator while still appealing to both their IT professional and technology marketing audiences, both established and emerging.