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What AI Search is Saying About Your Company Right Now

What AI Search is Saying About Your Company Right Now

By Branding & Identity, Business Strategy & Positioning, Influence & Consumer Psychology, Marketing Strategy & Growth, SEO & Organic Growth
What AI Search Says About Your Company Right now— and Why You Should Check Before Your Next Buyer Does Buyers in your market are now evaluating vendors without contacting them. They're using AI search to identify and compare options to create a shortlist before the first email is sent. The…
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Why Technical Companies Struggle to Tell Human Stories and What That Costs Them Commercially

By Messaging & Communications, Brand Management, Business Strategy & Positioning, Marketing Strategy & Growth
Why Technical Companies Struggle to Tell Human Stories and What That Costs Them Commercially The most rigorous technical firms in any market often have the most powerful human stories buried inside them. Buyers who would respond to those stories never hear them. This is not a failure of the people…
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Why Your Champion Convinced Themselves and Couldn’t Convince Anyone Else

The Portability Problem: Why Your Champion Couldn’t Convince Anyone Else

By Business Strategy & Positioning, Brand Management, Conversion Optimization & Sales Psychology, Messaging & Communications, Thought Leadership & Authority Building
The Portability Problem: Why Your Champion Convinced Themselves but Couldn't Convince Anyone Else There's a version of losing a deal that's harder to diagnose than the ones that end in clear rejection. The champion was real. The interest was genuine. The conversations were substantive. The kind where the other side…
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Is Your Best Thinking Is Building Someone Else's Authority

Is Your Best Thinking Is Building Someone Else’s Authority?

By Messaging & Communications, Branding & Identity, Business Strategy & Positioning, Marketing Strategy & Growth
Is Your Best Thinking Is Building Someone Else's Authority? There are ideas in your head right now that your best clients would find commercially useful. They're sitting in a voice note from a client debrief two months ago. In an email thread where you said something precise about a problem…
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Why Challenger Brands Win More Often Than Market Leaders When the Fight Is About Meaning

How Challenger Brands Win Deals They Should Lose on Paper

By Branding & Identity, Business Strategy & Positioning, Thought Leadership & Authority Building
How Challenger Brands Win Deals They Should Lose on Paper The category leader's advantage is real. More case studies, more reference clients, lower perceived risk, a name the procurement committee already knows. Every structural variable in a standard evaluation favors the established player. The challenger has something more commercially useful:…
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Why Executive LinkedIn Profiles Repel the Clients They Want

Why Executive LinkedIn Profiles Repel the Clients They Want

By Branding & Identity, Business Strategy & Positioning, Lead Generation & Demand Creation, Marketing Strategy & Growth, Messaging & Communications, Thought Leadership & Authority Building
Why Executive LinkedIn Profiles Repel the Clients They Want There's a chance your executive LinkedIn profile was originally written to impress a recruiter or talent scout. That's not a criticism, it's an observation about the default mental model most executives carry when they build and optimize a professional profile over…
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The Person in the Room Who Didn't Introduce Themselves Is the One Who Abandoned the Deal

The Person in the Room Who Didn’t Introduce Themselves Is the One Who Abandoned the Deal

By Conversion Optimization & Sales Psychology, Business Strategy & Positioning, Lead Generation & Demand Creation, Marketing Strategy & Growth
The Person in the Room Who Didn't Introduce Themselves Is the One Who Abandoned the Deal Here's a situation that just happened to one of our clients. They were in the final stages of talks with a potential client that went exceptionally well. The chemistry was right, the questions were…
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