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How to Find The Painkiller in Your Vitamin Business

How to Find The Painkiller in Your Vitamin Business

by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: Apr 5, 2019 | Customers, Jobs To Be Done, Positioning, Psychology, Startups

< Back to The Campfire There’s a well known idea that you can classify any business into one of two camps: Vitamin or Painkiller. Vitamins provide long term benefits. They’re an investment that will help you make progress on larger goals. Unfortunately, the delay...
How to Make Your Product Better Than Doing Nothing

How to Make Your Product Better Than Doing Nothing

by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: Feb 23, 2020 | Brand Think Pieces, Customers, Entrepreneurship, Jobs To Be Done, Marketing, Startups

< Back to The Campfire With all the different flavors of competition your business is up against, there’s a sneaky one that’s easy to overlook. No matter what industry you’re in, this competitor is always ready to lure away your potential customers. “Do Nothing.”...
5 Steps That Will Get You From Business Idea to Launch (Step 2: Customer Jobs)

5 Steps That Will Get You From Business Idea to Launch (Step 2: Customer Jobs)

by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: May 28, 2018 | Jobs To Be Done, Marketing, Startups, Strategy

< Back to The Campfire This series follows a real life startup to show how you can craft the strategy and messaging you need to launch your business idea and validate it with customers. Quick Recap and Context If you’re just jumping in, this series is designed...
Messaging And Marketing Teardown: Sudden Coffee (Premium Instant Coffee)

Messaging And Marketing Teardown: Sudden Coffee (Premium Instant Coffee)

by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: Jul 18, 2020 | Brand Strategy, Elements of Value, Jobs To Be Done, Marketing, Strategy, Teardown

< Back to The Campfire I discovered Sudden Coffee on a recent episode of the podcast, The Pitch. The Pitch podcast is a lot like Shark Tank where entrepreneurs pitch their businesses to VCs in search of investment. In this episode, the founders of Sudden...
How To Market Your Brand’s “Aha” Moment To Excite Customers

How To Market Your Brand’s “Aha” Moment To Excite Customers

by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: Jul 18, 2020 | Brand Strategy, Jobs To Be Done, Marketing, Messaging, Positioning, Strategy

< Back to The Campfire I recently used a digital product that took me on the very important journey from “I-guess-I’ll-try-it” to “I-gotta-keep-using-this”. In business, we affectionately refer to the completion of that journey as the “aha” moment. In my case, the...
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