THE BUY-IN GAP™ FRAMEWORK

MOST BRANDS ARE VISIBLE. VERY FEW ARE FELT.

MOST BRANDS ARE VISIBLE. VERY FEW ARE FELT.

MOST BRANDS ARE VISIBLE. VERY FEW ARE FELT.

The campaigns are running. The content is going out. But do your customers actually feel anything when they think about you? Is your team genuinely behind it? There's a difference between a brand people notice and a brand people feel. That gap between the two. That's what I help brands close.

Your brand isn't what you say it is. It's what you consistently do.

Your brand isn't what you say it is. It's what you consistently do.

When your team is genuinely behind the brand, customers feel it. The Buy-In Gap™ is about closing the distance between what your brand says and what people actually experience.

When your team is genuinely behind the brand, customers feel it. The Buy-In Gap™ is about closing the distance between what your brand says and what people actually experience.

Free audit

Not sure if you have a BUY-IN gap? Find out in 5 minutes.

A simple one-page audit to score where your brand stands right now. 12 honest questions across your team, your customers, and your numbers. No sales call. No fluff. Just a clear read on where you’re losing people, and what it means.

A simple one-page audit to score where your brand stands right now. 12 honest questions across your team, your customers, and your numbers. No sales call. No fluff. Just a clear read on where you’re losing people, and what it means.

Used by brands and ecommerce leaders to pressure-test their brand before it costs them.

Used by brands and ecommerce leaders to pressure-test their brand before it costs them.

Framework

BUY-IN ISN'T BUILT IN A CAMPAIGN. IT'S BUILT FROM THE INSIDE OUT.

The Buy-In Gap™ is the distance between what your brand says it stands for and what your customers and team genuinely feel. Most brands have one. This is the framework for closing it.

01

Find the gap

Pinpoint where your brand's purpose is being said but not felt, by your team, your customers, or both. You can't close a gap you haven't named.

01

Find the gap

Pinpoint where your brand's purpose is being said but not felt, by your team, your customers, or both. You can't close a gap you haven't named.

02

Build the buy-in

Your team can know your brand without being behind it. This is about getting them to genuinely connect with who the brand is, why it exists, and why that matters.

02

Build the buy-in

Your team can know your brand without being behind it. This is about getting them to genuinely connect with who the brand is, why it exists, and why that matters.

03

Make it contagious

When your team is genuinely behind the brand, customers feel the difference. They stay longer, spend more, and tell people. That's not loyalty. That's advocacy. And it starts on the inside.

03

Make it contagious

When your team is genuinely behind the brand, customers feel the difference. They stay longer, spend more, and tell people. That's not loyalty. That's advocacy. And it starts on the inside.

Diagnostic

Do you have a buy-in gap?

Recognise any of these?

Recognise any of these?

Recognise any of these?

You don’t need to say yes to all of them. Three is enough.

You don’t need to say yes to all of them. Three is enough.

1

Your brand says one thing.

Your team does another.

2

Your purpose statement is on the website. If you asked your team to recite it, most couldn't.

Your purpose statement is on the website. If you asked your team to recite it, most couldn't.

3

You have a values document. But your culture looks nothing like it.

You have a values document. But your culture looks nothing like it.

4

Most of your customers transact with you. Very few are genuinely connected to you.

Most of your customers transact with you. Very few are genuinely connected to you.

5

Ask five people on your team why this brand exists and you'll get five different answers.

Ask five people on your team why this brand exists and you'll get five different answers.

6

Your marketing gets attention but it doesn't seem to build anything lasting.

Your marketing gets attention but it doesn't seem to build anything lasting.

If any of those landed, that’s a buy-in gap. And it’s fixable.

If any of those landed, that’s a buy-in gap. And it’s fixable.

Workshops

THE WORK THAT TURNS YOUR BRAND INTO SOMETHING PEOPLE ACTUALLY FEEL.

THE WORK THAT TURNS YOUR BRAND INTO SOMETHING PEOPLE ACTUALLY FEEL.

There's a difference between a team that works for a brand and a team that works with it. One shows up. The other shows up differently. These sessions are built for teams ready to make that shift.

Package 1

The Buy-In Gap™ Intensive

A full-day workshop that takes your team from knowing the brand to genuinely being behind it. The most important day your team will spend together this year.

Package 1

The Buy-In Gap™ Intensive

A full-day workshop that takes your team from knowing the brand to genuinely being behind it. The most important day your team will spend together this year.

Package 2

The Buy-In Gap™ Diagnostic

A focused half-day session to identify exactly where your brand is losing people, and why. Start here if you know something's off but can't name it.

Package 2

The Buy-In Gap™ Diagnostic

A focused half-day session to identify exactly where your brand is losing people, and why. Start here if you know something's off but can't name it.

Package 3

The Buy-In Gap™ Talk

Bring The Buy-In Gap™ to your conference or brand event. A talk that gets your audience thinking differently about what their brand actually means to people.

Package 3

The Buy-In Gap™ Talk

Bring The Buy-In Gap™ to your conference or brand event. A talk that gets your audience thinking differently about what their brand actually means to people.

Speaking

Talks that make people feel the importance of brand.

Talks that make people feel the importance of brand.

Talks that make people feel the importance of brand.

For online retail conferences, marketing summits, and brand events. Drawn from over ten years working inside ecommerce brands, honest, commercially grounded, and built to leave people energised to act.

Speaking angles:

Why most customers transact with a brand but never truly connect with it, and what sits in between

In the age of AI, buy-in is the last real differentiator. Here's how to build it

How to turn customers into genuine advocates by starting with your team

ENQUIRIES

LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR BRAND.

LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR BRAND.

Workshop for your team, a talk at your event, or just a conversation about where your brand is falling short, reach out and let's figure out what makes sense.

Over ten years in ecommerce. Helping brands close the gap between what they say and what people actually feel.


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