by Clay Ostrom | 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 | May 4, 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 | Jan 28, 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 | Jan 14, 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...
by Clay Ostrom | Sep 2, 2019 | Customer Insights, Customers, Jobs To Be Done, Positioning, Psychology
< Back to The Campfire If there’s one piece of information you can find out about your customers that would most improve your brand, marketing, as well as your actual product or service itself, it’s the answer to this question:“What did your customer do before they...
by Clay Ostrom | Aug 11, 2019 | Brand Strategy, Data, Marketing, Marketing Messages Insights, Messaging, Positioning, Teardown
< Back to The Campfire This article was featured in the October 2019 issue of Foundr Magazine(click to view the piece)With all the noise and smoke in the startup world, a strong brand is critical to capture your audience’s attention. And for a brand to be...
