[ Re-Branding ]
Kinesio Tapes
Scaling E-Commerce,
11/2020-04/2021

KINESIO
Physio-Tape

Re-Branding Marketing Strategy
for Sports Health Care Product, which drived 20% more Conversion

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Re-Branding for Kinesio Tapes for Therapeutic Self-Application

Effekt Manufaktur is a young FBA Amazon business with a clear mission to provide you, the customer, with the best possible effect while you can keep going with your sportive activities. This is expressed not only in excellent product quality, but also in honest and solution-oriented service. Effekt Manufaktur was acquired by the startup Razor Group in 2019 with the goal of further developing, optimizing, and scaling the brand, transforming it into a truly global brand.

Discovering and Understanding the Vision of the Branding for the target Re-Positioning.

  • Reposition Kinesio tapes as a modern, evidence-based, and lifestyle-friendly recovery solution, that appeals to both professional athletes and health-conscious individuals, enhancing brand credibility, market differentiation, and consumer trust.

    “Pain Relief" a new rebranding shall reflect Brand Values and create Trust for Long-term usage reorders, referrals, and word-of-mouth” (increased lifetime value).

    Defining the Problem Statement through a Brand Audit

    • Problem: - identifying the core gap between your current brand perception and your desired brand positioning: visually out of touch, no story, no brand CI
    • Brand Story Clarity - clear communication of USP's that reflects how your brand improves lives and the customers sport active lifetsyle.
    • The goal - is to create a brand experience that makes a strong and intuitive first impression —one that feels trustful and relevant for day to day life.
    • Visual Identity:
      Is the logo, color palette, and packaging aligned with your target audience? Touchpoints: Is your presence (online, retail, social) consistent and impactful?
    • Messaging & Tone:
      Does your voice reflect your purpose and connect emotionally? Market Positioning: How do you compare to competitors?
    • Customer Perception:
      What do people think and feel when they engage with your brand? Does it look Modern ? Trustworty ?

    Brand Value definition, through Design Thinking and using 'What - How - Why'

    • Design Thinking: - uncover the core value of your brand — from a human-centered, design-led perspective, "We make kinesiology tape that supports muscle recovery — trusted by athletes, made for everyone — so you can stay active and feel good in your daylie activities."

    • What How Why ? -
      "What do we deliver to people?" - "How do we deliver it differently or better?" "Why do we exist beyond making a sale?".
    • The goal - is to create a brand experience that makes a strong and intuitive first impression —one that feels trustful and relevant for day to day life. We define a Design Led Brand value Statement.

    For our Rebranding, we guide our design decisions based on the Goal directed Personas, and focus on there Needs, Pains and Desires.

    "Our brand is currently seen as a clinical, niche tool for injury recovery, but we want to be known as an empowering, lifestyle-driven brand that supports everyday movement and performance — so we can better connect with active individuals who seek both recovery and prevention."

    Focusing on a goal directed persona cuts straight to the nitty-gritty. “It focusses on: What does my typical user want to do with my product?”. The objective of a goal-directed persona is to examine the process and workflow that your user would prefer to utilize to achieve their goals in interacting with your product or service: self recovery.

    01 - Personas
    Each target group has different pain points and needs. For better CRO we look at customer segmentation, through Tailor-made content and campaigns, which will lead to higher conversions.

    02 - Value Proposition:
    Kinesio tapes for self application, muscle support, pain relief, easy to use offered in stripes and rolls and different colour variations

    03 - Fokus: on sport active Persona, in different lifestyle enverionments. Presenting Kinesio Tapes with strong photografic Visual context

    Our Re-branding Execution focusses on a strong sport active persona.

    We define Hypothesises and create Variations, to test our Brand Re-Design Styleguide.

    "Our brand is currently seen as a clinical, niche tool for injury recovery, but we want to be known as an empowering, lifestyle-driven brand that supports everyday movement and performance — so we can better connect with active individuals who seek both recovery and prevention."

    We want to test our assumptions, transforming the visual messaging from cheep looking kinesio tapes into a sportive lifes style brand.

    Design elements: are placed in a way that corresponds to human perception, such as the use of badges or icon info grafic elements (based on Gestalt Law).

    Complexity is reduced: and options are simplified to enable quick decisions, such as the categorization of product items, colours or product cuts.

    The refreshed visual identity: including logo, packaging, and color scheme, significantly improved brand appeal and increased brand recall among both new and existing customers.

    Key Takeaways

    [+] That project was a total win in development and execution. We set clear milestones, defined the design on iterations and went live with the full provided set of grafic deliverables.

    1. Enhanced Brand Recognition:
    The refreshed visual identity, including logo, packaging, and color scheme, significantly improved shelf appeal and increased brand recall among both new and existing customers.

    2. Clearer Market Positioning:
    The rebrand helped differentiate the product from generic tape options by emphasizing its therapeutic, science-backed benefits and alignment with professional sports and physiotherapy.

    3. Broadened Target Audience:
    Messaging shifted to include not only athletes but also everyday users with joint pain or muscular fatigue, expanding the customer base.

    4. Improved Product Trust and Credibility:
    The updated branding highlighted endorsements by medical professionals and athletes, leading to increased consumer trust and perceived value.

    5. Consistent Omni-Channel Experience:
    Unified visual and messaging updates across packaging, website, social media, and point-of-sale displays provided a more consistent and professional brand experience.

    6. Sales Growth and Market Share Increase:
    Post-rebranding, the brand saw a measurable lift in sales and gained competitive share in the sports therapy and wellness market.

    7. Stronger Emotional Connection with Consumers:
    The rebrand emphasized movement, empowerment, and recovery, resonating more deeply with users’ personal health and fitness goals.

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