Client Story: United Country Western Dance Council®
Redefining and Realigning to Empower Global Growth
Design thinking + communications thinking = better results
Communications thinking can influence design decisions, inform or complement the design of brands, products, services, and systems
Verbal identity: a leadership team’s unifying force
Introducing a leadership team to the identity of their organization, often through a brand-new lens.
Client Story: Mission Control Space Services
Empowering Leadership on Earth, Moon, Mars, and Beyond
Client Story: Studio 91
Established business gains new clarity and confidence for its 10-year anniversary
Words first: the long path to the short cut
Don't give the short-shrift the story that needs to be told.
Beyond words
This is one client's story of moving beyond phrases and key messages to real business transformation.
The consistency quotient: taking control of your greatest brand asset
A brand’s ability to be flexible depends on its consistency.
Do we need a new brand? (Maybe not)
The answer to “what should be done?” is not always a new brand.
Positioned or pigeon-holed? Be leading-edge AND understood
Demystifying the concept of “positioning” for tech and other leading-edge enterprises
Leveling-up authentically: get a brand from here to there
Getting from “here” to “there” does not require a dishonest leap of faith.
Launch-and-forget: the cost of (brand) neglect
In branding, neglect is the enemy of progress.
Do these 5 things to support brand succession
A brand-centric viewpoint on succession planning + five concrete things to do.
Brand stewardship: how to caretake your brand
The what, why, who, and how of brand stewardship.
On-brand customer gifts
Why journal books are the best customer gifts I’ve ever given (with recommendations)
Communicating with creatives
Top tips and best practices for getting the best creative work.
Client Story: AIM Women’s Wellness Center
New Brand Attracts More Clients, Staff Who “Really Fit”
You aren’t your business: divide to conquer
Freedom is disentangling from your business's brand.
Pre-marketing: the groundwork for success
Laying the groundwork for successful long-term marketing.
When your brand is a best-kept secret
Kick “best-kept-secret” syndrome with a powerful brand voice.
Client Story: KDM Analytics
Essential Story Supports New Brand, Pivot from Engineering Services to Product-Based Offering