MVP by COB
Sketched out a new revenue stream? Looking to pivot? Make it real with 9–5.
(A brand accelerator by five and dime)
Could you imagine having a brand by COB?
A new revenue stream by Friday drinks?
We’re an MVP brand accelerator for organisations and individuals who want to innovate quickly.
Together we'll take your rough product/service vision and sprint with it, creating a strong brand direction and story to take to market in one working day.*
We charge $6,800+GST for the prep and full-day working session, including a minimum of three team members (this includes a strategist, copywriter and brand designer). If a pivot online or new product/service is part of your business continuity planning, you may be eligible for funding towards this.**
Alternatively, if you’re a team with a killer solution sketched out and you’re pitching for investment, we’ll run our 9–5 process for a percentage of the total investment you plan to raise from our work together, as long as we believe it has legs to change the world.
**If you're in New Zealand, you may be eligible for up to $5K funding through the COVID-19 Business Advisory Fund. Get in touch with us to find out more, or visit this link.
No. 😂 Fast doesn’t mean amateur. We’ve got a brand methodology that we’ve refined over the years and are used to coming up with creative miracles on tight deadlines. And the cost is reflective of the talent and speed with which we’ll be delivering these creative miracles to you.
Agencies often waste time with long intro meetings and generally overthink the whole process, when what you really need right now is a small, gritty team to co-design with you and come up with something that’s high quality and suitable to get selling now.
Want a teaser? See some of the brands we’ve developed.
You get fresh creative work that comes straight off the back of a conversation. We respond immediately to your energy rather than a week-old brief. There’s not a wasted minute. It’s a fun experience that can instantly arm you with a high-quality and professional brand and copy that will help increase your revenue or stay relevant – not to mention the thousands of $$$ we’ll save you in lost time. To make this possible in one day we do need you to fill out a briefing form so we can do pre-research and planning before the sprint. We'll also talk about your key collateral example which will be different for each client.
It takes an entrepreneurial mindset and the trust to make rapid decisions without rounds of amends or weeks of ‘sleeping on it’. We’re not aiming for perfection; we’re aiming for execution, because we know that in order to capture new markets you have to move fast.
9–5 is designed for reaching the next stage – whether that’s investment, sign-ups, or landing your first paying customers. And if you want us to push further, you can always book another day.
This process is designed to push you as hard as possible in order to get something out quickly in order to make up lost time and revenue to date. The deliverable from the 9–5 process is your MVP, a springboard to hit the market running that can be refined later (which we’d recommend for any modern digital brand). Of course, if you’d like to take the night or a few days to sleep on the work that’s been done and come back with changes, that is completely fine too, but it will lead to lost momentum and additional costs.
If you feel you have parts of this process already completed, we can work to adjust the process to suit you. We can run our 9–5 process for other creative challenges too. Just get in touch with us to discuss how this might work.
9–5 was developed during COVID-19 Level 4 lockdown with the idea that the workshop takes place entirely virtually.
The team at five and dime are storytellers who’ve been working collectively (with specialists from brand to UX, animation to human-centred design), collaboratively and quickly for clients who need to build trust and attention in a digital world. Having worked on a number of startup accelerator programmes, 9–5 was inspired by our involvement coaching the Hack the Crisis NZ 72-hour innovation challenge. With the project team's 35 years of collective experience, we’re seasoned brand and story developers that are looking to support new solutions.
9–5 is a quickfire solution if you need to launch a brand, product, service or website overnight. If you’re looking for broader brand, marketing or storytelling support, come on over to five and dime.
Small and medium sized businesses may qualify for funding to help pay for advisory services to support them through the Covid-19 outbreak. The Covid-19 Business Advisory Funding can provide support in areas such as HR, health and wellbeing, business continuity, cashflow and finance management, marketing and digital enablement strategy.
Funding is only available through the Regional Business Partner Network (RBP) Growth Advisors. For more information or to find your local Growth Advisor go to www.regionalbusinesspartners.co.nz.
