The brands we choose to live with
Your product is loved, let us help you be the one that’s chosen.
You’re here because you received our Trumpet Mailer, great news!
And even better, you scanned the QR code on the back to find out more.
But what hooked you in? Aside from the handwritten note and the mini trumpet, could well be that niggling feeling that your brand isn’t quite leading the chorus.
You've made a product people love. We can help you build the brand that makes it worth more, on the shelf and in the basket.
No pitch, no pressure. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right people to fix this. And if we're not a fit, you'll leave with a plan you can run yourself.
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Mel saw what made our brand distinct and helped us to raise over £25K in investment in the first 2 months.
Eve Lister, Founder
Fight Like a Girl
Why Trumpet?
To blow my own Trumpet, I’m an award-winning brand director. In my 14 years in the industry I’ve led a wide variety of brand projects from strategy right through to campaign.
Bringing clarity and recognisability to brands like these:
It’s not about your product
The product is the part you've already got right. People buy it, use it, come back for it.
What's holding the rest back isn't what's in the bottle or the box. It's the brand around it, and the story it fails to tell on a shelf, a website, or a buyer's desk.
A stronger brand unlocks three things:
The price you can charge
The ability to
stand-out
The opportunity for investment
The brands, like yours, that we’ve helped to lead the chorus.
From team Trumpet
Who is this for?
Founder-led home and lifestyle brands. Candles, cleaning, fragrance, tech, garden, wellness, pets. Anything that earns a place in someone's home and their everyday life.
You've got traction, and outgrown the brand.
People already love the product. The brand was fine for launch. It isn't fine for where you're heading.
There's a retail conversation happening.
A wholesale enquiry, a buyer meeting, a shelf you want to win. You'd like to walk in looking like the brand that belongs there.
You've rebranded before, and nothing moved.
Prettier didn't change the price or the pull. This time you want strategy underneath the look.
Home is personal. The things we choose to live with say something about how we live and who we are. That's why a diffuser, a watering can, or a cleaning spray can be worth more than the one beside it.
Your ideal customer isn’t comparing price tags.
They’re deciding which brand and which object fits the life they wants to be living. That decision is emotional long before it’s rational.
And the brands that win? Well they start by resonating with their audience long before they talk price. They’re not louder, not cheaper but unmistakably themselves.
An honest 30 minutes, no pitch. You'll leave with a clearer view of your brand either way.
Your Questions, Answered
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Thirty minutes no pitch. This is about you and your business.
We look at what’s holding your brand back and whether we’re the right people to fix it. You’ll leave clearer either way.
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The full Brand Symphony runs around six weeks.
Long enough to do it properly, not so long you lose momentum. Smaller pieces of work move faster.
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The thinking is ours to do. But the best of it comes out of you.
Expect a couple of focused sessions and some back and forth. You know your product and your customer better than anyone, and we build on that.
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Depends how far into the room you want us. Three ways in:
Sound Check – £200.
For when you know you're different but can't yet say why. You leave with it written down and ready to brief.
The Rehearsal – £1,500.
We build the strategy together: what people love, what makes you worth choosing, and the brand idea that comes from it.The full Brand Symphony –£6,000 to £15,000.
The whole build. Strategy, words, and look, ready for the shelf and the buyer meeting.
Most founders heading for retail start with a brand call, and we point you to the right one.
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A freelancer makes it look good. A big agency makes it look expensive.
We start with why anyone should choose your product and pay more for it, then design from there. Strategy first, and a team small enough that it's always us doing the work.
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You can make something that looks fine. Fine blends in.
The hard part was never the making, it's knowing what makes you worth choosing in the first place. That's the part we do, and the part a template can't.
A note from Mel and Clare
Hey 👋🏻
We started Trumpet because we kept seeing the same thing: brilliant home and lifestyle products wrapped in brands that didn't do them justice.
Products people genuinely loved, priced and presented like everything else on the shelf. Essentially, not resonating with anyone they wanted to.
The home is personal.
The things you choose to live with matter. We think the brands behind them should too. So that's what we do. We find what makes your product worth choosing, and build a brand that makes it obvious.
If you’ve read this far, you probably already know the brand needs work. The real question is usually timing: is now the right moment?
Here’s what we’ve found.
It’s almost always sooner than it feels. Every month you’re on the shelf with a brand that doesn’t match the quality of your product, is a month you’re leaving something on the table: a retail conversation, an investor meeting, a customer who should have remembered you and didn’t.
We built our process to move at the pace of a real founder, not an agency timeline. No juniors, no handoffs, and no waiting around.
If that sounds like what you need, we’d love to hear where you’re at and how we come in.
We’ll get to know a bit about your brand before we meet, so the first conversation’s actually useful.
Mel & Clare
Trumpet
You've built something people love. Let's make it the one they choose.
No pitch, no pressure. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right people to fix this. And if we're not a fit, you'll leave with a plan you can run yourself.