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4 Signals That Your Brand Is In Poor Health

4 Signals That Your Brand Is In Poor Health

by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: Feb 23, 2020 | Brand Strategy, Implementing Your Brand, Marketing, Positioning, Strategy

< Back to The Campfire Evaluating the health of your brand can be a tricky thing. To start, you have to define the role brand plays for your business. Your brand is a relationship between your business and your customers. The two halves of that relationship are:...
Infographic: What CEOs Care About (And How Their Brand Can Help Them)

Infographic: What CEOs Care About (And How Their Brand Can Help Them)

by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: Feb 3, 2023 | Brand Leadership, Brand Strategy, Leadership, Positioning, Strategy

< Back to The Campfire Infographic Click here to download a PDF of the CEO infographic Infographic Data Source – The Predictive Index’s study on CEOs. See the full study here and here. Infographic Content Overview Leading a company is incredibly complex. From...
One Simple Question To See If You Have A Strong Brand Strategy

One Simple Question To See If You Have A Strong Brand Strategy

by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: Jul 20, 2020 | Brand Strategy, Brand Think Pieces, Leadership, Positioning, Strategy

< Back to The Campfire For your brand to establish a unique position and rise above the noise, your strategy needs to embrace trade-offs. Trade-offs mean that you’ve crafted a position that targets a specific type of customer and serves them in a specific way. And...
Two Key Ideas That Will Make Your Marketing Ads More Effective

Two Key Ideas That Will Make Your Marketing Ads More Effective

by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: Feb 4, 2023 | Content Strategy Insights, Marketing, Positioning, Sales

< Back to The Campfire The barrier to entry for putting up digital ads now is almost nonexistent. You can throw together an ad on any social network or search engine in minutes. This is a huge shift for lots of businesses. It opens up a marketing channel they...
How To Find The Peaks, Pits, and Potholes In Your Brand

How To Find The Peaks, Pits, and Potholes In Your Brand

by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: Feb 3, 2023 | Brand Strategy, Elements of Value, Positioning, Positioning Insights

< Back to The Campfire One of the biggest traps for a brand is the idea that you need to be excellent at everything. It’s fueled by a fear that our customers will only engage with us if we satisfy all their needs at a high level. The truth though is that to create...
Why Indecision Is A Black Hole That Can Consume Your Business

Why Indecision Is A Black Hole That Can Consume Your Business

by Clay Ostrom | Last Updated: Jul 18, 2020 | Brand Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Positioning, Productivity, Strategy

< Back to The Campfire Even if you’re not an astrophysicist you still probably know at least one thing about black holes. There’s just something mysterious and even a little frightening about an object with a gravitational pull so strong that nothing can escape it....
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