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Gudoo

Gudoo helps manage kid’s birthday parties and collects a gift fund online; 50% of which goes towards meaningful present or experience; the other 50% to their chosen charity.

About the Gudoo

Kids’ parties can fill your cupboards with plastic presents and empty your bank account. Gudoo, is changing all that. It collects a gift fund online: half of which goes to the birthday boy or girl; half to charity.

With copywriter Andy Rigden, we brought Gudoo to life, through naming, brand design development, brand language, website and web-app development, video production, tone of voice, keyword research, persona development, web copy, scriptwriting, content planning and social media writing.

What we did for them

Research and persona development

We began with qualitative research: interviews with our potential audience and Gudoo’s founder. These findings became a series of brand values and four key personas: user profiles for all our marketing comms, particularly the site itself.

Naming

Evocative or descriptive? Abstract or Concrete? Finding the right name for a new brand involves strategic, linguistic and visual decisions. Gudoo was born out of the colloquial term a ‘good do’. It became a name with exceptional recall that commands its own url, gudoo.co.uk.

Visual brand

Turning the name into a successful marque is just the start. We developed a full set of secondary system graphics including the illustration style, a party-influenced colour palette and typefaces. These became the building blocks for the website design, stationery and promotional materials.

Verbal brand

Together with our writer, we defined the brand essence and attributes from our audience research, then translated these into the core copy platform. This included a strapline, elevator pitch and short and long-form boilerplates.

Tone of voice

More than a dry set of guidelines, a clear point of view and the confidence to express it defines a brand’s tone of voice. Gudoo has already shared its take on the world in social and other media.

Website design

With the branding elements in place, Brother designed and developed the Gudoo website and app. This site had all the tools required to manage a child’s birthday party including: design a bespoke e-invitation; invite guests and manage RSVPs; crowdfund a special chosen gift and donate 50% of funds to the party girl or boy’s favourite charity. See gudoo.co.uk.

SEO keyword research

One of Gudoo’s great strengths is its ability to cut plastic out of parties. We used SEO to tap into changing sentiment around single-use plastic and introduce the new service’s eco-friendly credentials.

Explainer/brand video

With Andy on scriptwriting duties we storyboarded and art directed the explainer video on the site’s landing page as well as supplying the visual assets to the production company.

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