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About SSI Digital Imaging & Color Solutions

Positioning a Specialized Technology Brand for an Elite Creative Market

Industry: Digital Imaging & Color Management Services
Business Stage: Sub-Brand Within SSI Portfolio

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Results

  • Successfully differentiated Digital Imaging as a premium service provider to advertising agencies, designers, and elite photographers.
     

  • Leveraged endorsements from nationally recognized photographers to build credibility and trust.
     

  • Strengthened brand equity and visibility within a highly discerning creative market.

Challenge

While SSI’s core brand represented managed IT, cloud, and cybersecurity, Digital Imaging served a completely different audience — creative professionals demanding precision, color fidelity, and aesthetic sensitivity.
 

The SSI master brand could not authentically represent this niche without risking confusion or dilution.
This audience required distinct positioning, visual language, and messaging aligned with their expectations and culture.

Solution

  • Developed a unique identity and messaging framework tailored to creative professionals.
     

  • Positioned Digital Imaging around precision, expertise, and artistic partnership.
     

  • Integrated testimonials and endorsements into campaigns to reinforce credibility.
     

  • Maintained strategic connection to SSI as the stable parent brand while allowing Digital to speak directly to its vertical market.

Distinguishing Insight

 

Digital Imaging demonstrates that effective portfolio strategy requires audience-specific brand expression. By allowing the sub-brand to authentically reflect its niche market — while retaining SSI’s operational credibility — the company expanded into a new vertical without compromising clarity or trust.

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Michael Furman

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Bill Schilling

Back Story

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Pier Nicola (Nic) D'Amico

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Jeffrey Totaro

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