Business, positioning, culture and communication pulling the same way. Sababa is the strategic direction for companies with plenty of people executing and no one steering the whole.
No proposal, no commitment.
The problem
One handles social. Another the website. Another the ads. Each delivers their part well, and the brand still says the same thing nowhere. The result is communication that is expensive, scattered and easy to forget.
What's missing isn't more execution. It's direction.
What we do
We come in before execution and stay above it. We bring together what the business wants, what the brand says, how the team works and what reaches the market, and turn it into a path everyone can follow. Those who execute keep executing. We make sure everyone points the same way.
How we work
First the logo, the post, the campaign. Only later, if there's time left, the question: what for? At Sababa the order is different.
A double immersion: inside and out.
Inside: the business, the founders, the team. Outside: the market, the sector, the competition. It's the deep dive that reveals what only that company has to tell, and that no ready-made template will ever find for you.
This is where direction is born.
We cross what surfaced inside with what surfaced outside and decide what ties positioning, culture, business and communication into a single brand character. This is also where we decide what stays out. We think together, with method, until the decision is clear and sustainable.
From direction to what the market sees.
Direction becomes positioning, narrative and communication strategy, ready for those who execute to execute better. And we stay close while the decision is tested in reality, whether in a launch, a new product or a change of positioning.
We don't deliver a plan to be filed away, or a campaign to be applauded. The order is fixed, the path isn't: strategy that works is rarely born in a straight line, and that's why we go back to Feel whenever Think asks for it.
Creative thinking
For us, it's a way of thinking through the problem: explore before closing, look for the angle no one else is using and trust the idea once it has strength. Different ideas, but never gratuitous. With impact, but without confusion.
Who it's for
Growing companies, established businesses and startups that already invest in media, design and content, but lack strategic leadership tying the ends together. Sababa comes in to make every cent invested in execution point to the same goal.
I'm not a designer, but I do design.
For 20 years I've created narratives, campaigns and events for brands like Coca-Cola, Ford, Nestlé, L'Oréal and Fiat, as a copywriter and strategist. For eight years I've provided strategic direction to startups. I've also been an entrepreneur: restaurants, laundromats, e-commerce and, today, canoeing.
I was never just one thing. I've been a copywriter, art director, strategist, entrepreneur. That doubt is what made me multidisciplinary, and it's why I look at the business as a whole.
I think big because I've thought for giant brands. I think small because I know what it's like to be small.
Brands I've worked with over 20 years
Detailed cases and projects at brunorothstein.com
Brands impossible to forget.
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