• October 15, 2025
  • Jocelyn Lovelle

Working on your brand? Brands grow from within.

Inward As intrinsic brand strategists, we often hear people talking about “working on their brand” and they ask questions like: When does my brand need attention? What should I be …

  • September 15, 2025
  • emily soccorsy

How Do I Get to the Root of My Brand?

What does it even say?

How to Understand the Emotional Needs
  • March 02, 2021
  • ROOT + RIVER

How to Understand the Emotional Needs of Your Audience

Branding is an emotional journey. Your brand is how other people experience what you believe. By understanding and being tuned into the emotions of your audience, you can design a …

  • January 29, 2021
  • ROOT + RIVER

Wrecking The Most Common and Detrimental Mistake in Branding

Originally shared on Emily’s LinkedIn As tribal beings we will always be inclined to belong. It’s a natural and hard-wired tendency that our forebears relied upon for survival. It came …

  • January 08, 2021
  • ROOT + RIVER

Why You Sound Like Everyone Else

As the people in charge of our brands, we want to stand out. We want our voices to rise above the lesser operators, the people who give our industry a …

  • November 30, 2020
  • ROOT + RIVER

Slow Down to Speed Up

As a director of marketing, you’ve become friends with timelines and time management, buddies with bandwidth. Even if the leadership team loves your ideas and encourages you to execute, they …

  • November 09, 2020
  • ROOT + RIVER

The Unstoppable Power of an Aligned CEO and CMO

In our work with mission-based leaders, there is one factor above all others that leads to successful brand differentiation. That factor doesn’t involve SEO or PPC. It’s not the best …

  • September 30, 2020
  • ROOT + RIVER

Planning for 2021 is foolish: Question instead

A plan is a method for achieving an end, so says Merriam-Webster. If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that relying too heavily on the solidity of your plans is …

  • September 03, 2020
  • ROOT + RIVER

How do I do biz dev now?

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Even as we’ve settled into routines around working remotely, meeting virtually, and supervising online learning, many of us still seem stuck when it comes to how to carry on doing …

  • August 06, 2020
  • ROOT + RIVER

Why is marketing so hard right now?

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Branding and marketing have never been easy. But throw in a pandemic, social and political unrest and a recession and that will complicate things a bit more. So no shame …

  • July 02, 2020
  • ROOT + RIVER

The Marketing Metric That Matters the Most

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By Jennifer Lawhead When I was 16-years-old, I gave a friend a piece of advice that I don’t remember. How do I know it actually happened, you may ask, since …

Vision
  • January 14, 2020
  • ROOT + RIVER

Vision is a marriage, not a hookup

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By Emily Soccorsy + Justin Foster You always have to know more about where your brand is going than the marketplace. This is the role of vision for your brand. …