Strategy
Building a brand identity is like composing a soundtrack for a film. You must find ways to touch on the same themes, while still introducing variations and inventive ways to create an atmosphere – in our case, the rich universe of a brand.
Poppy Thaxter • “The best results arrive from solid and trustful relationships.” Atelier ...
Great strategy isn’t about working forwards from backward-looking data in the form of numbers. It’s about working backwards from forward-looking data in the form of ideas.
How the work really gets done
- What’s surprising for many people, she says, is that marketing is actually highly tactical. There are frameworks and distinct steps founders can take to define what their company is doing, why it’s important, and why — above all the noise — people should listen to them. - How to Position Your Business - “You can't be everything to everyone, but y... See more
First Round Capital • Positioning Your Startup is Vital — Here’s How to Nail It
Consider modern brand building. In an age where a brand can be built in days or destroyed in hours, the synthesised strategist knows how to combine:
• Traditional brand architecture with meme theory
• Cultural anthropology with real-time data analysis
• Community dynamics with performance marketing
• Long-term brand building with short-term cultural re
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business becomes a brand when it transcends its category of origin. It takes an existing core equity, or a particular philosophy, and it infuses that idea into everything it does, furthering its reputation or world view one product, service or line extension at a time.”
Meera Kothand • Uncover Your Difference
Brand strategy is applied anthropology in a capitalist framework.
Most people, when they think about innovation, start with the product. Instead, the innovator should start by figuring out an innovative method for getting products to customers. Most people, when they think about innovation, start with the product. Instead, the innovator should start by figuring out an innovative method for getting products t... See more
Steve Jobs • Steve Jobs about go to market strategy
Your strategy is the long-lasting way you’re investing in reaching that goal. Your strategy sits above the tactics. A strategy might be to earn trust and attention. A strategy might be to be seen as the best and maybe only alternative. A strategy might be to have alliances and partnerships that enable you and your message to reach exactly the right
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