by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: Sep 1, 2020 | Brand Strategy, Content Strategy, Core Values, Marketing, Messaging
< Back to The Campfire When your brand is young and growing, it’s easy to feel limited by what you don’t have — budget, people, resources. Instead, by leaning into the assets you do have, you can tell an authentic story and build trust with customers all without a...
by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: Aug 3, 2020 | Brand Strategy, Home Page Featured, Marketing, Messaging, Positioning, Startups, Website
< Back to The Campfire When developing a brand it’s easy to find yourself trapped in a mental bubble. You live and breathe your business every day, and as a result tend to lose perspective on the work. This can lead to writer’s block for your messaging, designer’s...
by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: Sep 2, 2020 | Brand Strategy, Marketing, Messaging, Positioning, Positioning Insights
< Back to The Campfire It’s not overstating things to say that the success of your business largely hinges on two aspects of the same concept:The clarity of your positioningYour ability to communicate that positioning to customersThe reason your positioning is so...
by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: Jun 13, 2020 | Brand Strategy, Marketing, Messaging, Positioning, Strategy, Writing
< Back to The Campfire There’s a reason why writing effective marketing messages is so hard. Within the span of a couple short sentences your messages have to summarize the entire essence of what your brand provides.In our normal lives, we never communicate with...
by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: May 4, 2020 | Brand Strategy, Customer Research, Data, Data-Driven Branding, Marketing, Messaging
< Back to The Campfire When it comes to understanding how your customers think, there’s one universal truth that applies to every brand — you’re going to be wrong. You’re going to be wrong about their motivations. You’re going to be wrong about their preferences....
by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: May 25, 2020 | Brand Strategy, Building Your Brand, Industry Trends, Messaging, Positioning, Startups
< Back to The Campfire This article was featured in the March 2020 issue of Foundr Magazine(click to view the piece) No matter how great your product or service is or how much funding you have, every brand starts at zero when it comes to their audience.Zero...
