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Lioness Launch / South Africa’s integrated brand strategy consultancy, Maruapula Brand, launches new suite of tools for businesses looking to enhance their brand performance

May 7, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Kelebogile Makwala, founder, Maruapula Brand (South Africa)

Maruapula Brand is an integrated brand strategy consultancy based in South Africa, and focused on working with business and brand leaders who are looking to invest in and enhance their internal and external brand position and performance. Founded by entrepreneur Kelebogile Makwala, Maruapula Brand helps businesses create meaningful connections that get their brands seen, heard and valued by customers. The latest launch by Kelebogile and her team is a suite of strategic frameworks and brand tools to help businesses looking to enhance their brand performance and customer connectivity.


Maruapula Brand’s new product and service launch includes:

Brand Strategy
Internal and external brand strategy | Stakeholder segmentation and community strategy | Reputation management | Crisis management | Communication strategy | Marketing strategy | Digital strategy | Data strategy | Creative strategy

Brand Experiences
Brand therapy | Experiential research and development | Omni-channelling | Community and stakeholder involvement | Event design

Brand Training and Workshops
Strategic brand development workshops | Employer and internal brand workshops | Brand modelling | Web-conferencing | Brand frameworks and mapping | Design thinking | Journey mapping | Brand monitoring and evaluation

Brand Design
Internal and external campaigns | 360 Design | Identity and extension design | Digital collateral | Video | Animation | Illustration | Creative design and direction 

Digital Communication
Social media marketing | SEO lead generation | Web design

Talking about what makes this new product and service offering different in the marketplace, founder  Kelebogile Makwala says: “We have strategic frameworks and brand tools that make it effective for business and brand leaders to raise and manage their economic, developmental, social, diversity, and reputational value. Over the 7 years of business, we have grown relationships across influential pockets of business networks in Africa and the USA and have therefore pulled a golden thread across the connections made in efforts to realize brand impact for our clients.”

The growth of the company has attracted a sweep of great projects and clients who trust the new direction and equally contribute to the improved essence of this brand strategy consultancy. As part of the launch, Maruapula Brand is excited to express its deepest gratitude to our incoming clients in the minerals, water and sanitation, skills and enterprise development and tech sectors, all across Africa and the USA.

Speaking about her aspirations for the business going forward, founder Kelebogile says, “We would like for our services to provide business and brand leaders with specialized guidance on behavioural economics and collective intelligence together with their stakeholders. Our services are mined from diverse pools of thoughts and influence therefore we hope to increase brand impact and invest in high performing brand contact points. Ultimately, we want our services to be trusted in areas of negotiating deep routed brand issues.”

For those wishing to know more about Maruapula Brand’s new range of services, visit the company website to buy digital brand tools that will help you set up and manage your brand, get value and guidance from templates, eBooks, and workshops / masterclasses - https://maruapulabrand.com/shop/

Also contact Kelebogile Makwala and her team at Maruapula Brand via email: info@maruapulabrand.com or follow the business on social media: 

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