Ideas, interviews, and inspiration
Thoughts on branding, voice, and messaging, and Q&As with visionaries, creative powerhouses, and style makers.
Editorial
On a mission
In a sentence or two, can you explain your brand’s actionable reason for being? In that same phrase, can you also pinpoint who you serve, how you serve them, and why?
Your claims are not your brand
Emotion and aspiration should lead product messaging for beauty brands. Claims should be secondary. If you don’t lead with brand aspiration, you don’t have a brand.
A well-tailored engagement
Would you rather work with a brand strategy agency that provides a rigid scope or crafts bespoke engagements that intuitively leave room for unexpected discoveries?
The strategy behind brand voice
Most brands have no real strategy for executing their voice. Why?
Your well-honed brand positioning statement
Has this happened to you? You make a surprise connection in an unexpected place (the elevator, combing through Sephora, an intimate dinner party), and someone says, “Tell me about your brand.”
Language is a living force
Your audience is smart. Automating your brand identity, voice, or messaging will result in the loss of meaning. So how, when everything is changing so fast, can you maintain your brand’s grasp on humanness?
The formidable reason to believe
Crafting a succinct and direct yet nuanced Reason to Believe can seem like an insurmountable hill to climb.
5 ways language can revolutionize your brand
Building and maintaining a successful brand requires a particular alchemy.
Outcome vs Output
What’s the secret to effectively embedding differentiation into your positioning and messaging strategy?
Psychographics, and the great tonal shift
This moment requires sharper-than-ever messaging strategy.