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Messaging

Messaging for enterprise software and cyber security companies.

The best messaging is discovered, not invented. The story is already there, in the product, in the customers and in the people who sell it. Patrick brings a journalist’s method to that work: stakeholder and customer interviews, close reading of the market, and a writer’s insistence on plain language.

The result is messaging that survives contact with real buyers: message houses, campaign narratives and copy that sales teams actually use. Recent engagements span cyber security, healthcare technology and enterprise software.

How it works

Case study

Acumen Cyber

Cyber security · UK

Acumen Cyber is a fast-growing UK managed security services provider: engineer-led, CREST-accredited and built on the conviction that security is powered by people. As the company scaled, its messaging needed to keep pace.

A crowded managed-security market speaks in the same acronyms and makes the same promises. Acumen had to stand apart from the lookalikes without softening its technical credibility. The messaging needed to carry, unchanged, from the website into every sales conversation.

The brief was to build Acumen’s messaging from scratch. Interviews with leadership, engineers and customers surfaced the stories only Acumen could tell: the way it works, what it refuses to compromise on, why customers stay. Those findings became a message house, one narrative over clear pillars, each backed by proof. Then came the copy itself, written for the people who buy security rather than the people who sell it.

Acumen came away with a message house the whole company can write from: one voice from the website to the sales conversation, leading with people and proof rather than fear, and built to scale with the business.

Also

OneAdvanced

Enterprise software · UK

Patrick’s work for OneAdvanced, the UK enterprise software provider, spanned full campaign messaging for its Azure services, built from interviews with sales and technical leaders, plus thought leadership for its legal audience.

System C

Healthcare technology · UK

Patrick led the messaging for System C, a UK healthcare technology company whose electronic patient record systems serve NHS trusts and social-care organisations across the country.

Selected messaging work

Contact

For messaging and positioning conversations.

patrick [at] patrickhussey [dot] net