How Does a Branding Strategy Create Value for Your Brand?

Brand identity is the backbone of any company’s marketing efforts. You know your brand identity should resonate with your target market, making them feel connected and welcome to your company. Your brand identity should also be unique and different from what other companies in your industry are doing. The goal of a branding strategy is Read More …

Lean Startup: Build-Measure-Sell?

Often, startups think Product/Market fit is found by obtaining their first customers. They try to validate their product and customer base by building this Harry-Potter sales funnel thinking they can create a customer. The only measure part of the equation is the sales activity they generate within the funnel. I am not saying it doesn’t Read More …

Practicing Emergence in Sales and Marketing

If your organization and specifically, your sales and marketing teams are not in the practice of Engaging Emergence, what chance does your brand have in the race for innovation and new markets? So, what is Emergence? From Peggy Holman’s book Engaging Emergence, Turning Upheaval into Opportunity, 2010, Holman says, I define emergence as simply as possible: Read More …

Connecting The Basic Appreciative Inquiry Models

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and Action Research (AR) has become more prevalent in my marketing approach and toolbox. For my Lean connections, it is comparable to the way I think and use PDCA. I have a higher-order of thinking as I go left to right in the diagram, but the thought process remains basically the same. A Read More …