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: Jul 20, 2020 | Brand Strategy, Customers, Elements of Value, Jobs To Be Done, Positioning
< Back to The Campfire One of the most important, and most often missed, aspects of creating an effective, memorable brand is a sharp point of view. Your point of view tells your audience a compelling story about how you’re unique and why they should engage with...
by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: May 18, 2020 | Brand Strategy, Marketing, Messaging, Positioning
< 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 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...
by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: Feb 23, 2020 | Brand Strategy, Building Your Brand, Customers, Marketing, Positioning
< Back to The Campfire One of the hardest parts of working on your brand comes down to understanding a simple question:What is your brand?If you don’t have a clear way to think about your brand, it’s difficult to make meaningful progress building it and improving...
