Some of the most interesting problems I’ve been handed in the last few years, and what it took to solve them.
They Were Selling the Wrong Thing.
Category Design · PositioningHe Asked for Social Media. He Left With His Own Brokerage.
Positioning → Content System → PipelineThe Bottleneck Wasn’t Marketing. It Was the Tax Code.
Sales Enablement → Capability Install → Content SystemSame Product. Different Planet.
Category Design · Positioning · Go-to-MarketYou Can’t Scale When Everybody Rewrites the Story.
Positioning · Brand · MessagingCharity Is a Dirty Word.
Category Design → Messaging → Program DesignRebuilding a Research Firm Around Its Own Judgment.
Diagnostic → Systems Design → Capability InstallA Calendar Full of People Who Weren’t Ready.
Category Design → Brand → Content SystemThirty-Five Years of Reputation. Nobody New Could Find It.
Brand · Website · ContentThe Fight Was the Recruiting Pitch.
Messaging · Campaign · Recruitment MarketingNobody Was Buying “Fractional.”
Positioning · Brand System · SiteThat’s a Long Way for Lettuce to Travel.
Market Research · Positioning · MessagingThat’s what the Read is for. One week. $1K. A clear answer about what’s actually worth fixing first.
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