Branding is Still a Performance
Filed Under: Intrinsic Branding
Authenticity. Vulnerability. Transparency. Being more human. These are the standards of a modern brand. Branding is still a performance, and a powerful one. But it’s not a performance built on …
Why We Always ‘Love Them Where They’re At’
Filed Under: Intrinsic Branding
“I haven’t made any progress since we last met,” a former client said to us when she came to a recent Root + River event. Her shoulders lowered slightly …
Mission Statements Suck
Filed Under: Intrinsic Branding
They don’t suck because they are a bad idea or because they don’t carry within them sound notions around why you are doing what you do. They suck because they …
An Intrinsic Brander’s Guide to Honing Yearly Intentions
Filed Under: Intrinsic Branding
By Jennifer Lawhead When we set goals, we don’t create them in a boardroom. Or in a formal meeting. Or a Zoom call. Or in a fancy document with KPIs …
How Do I Do Big Marketing With A Small Team?
Filed Under: 21st Century Branding, Beliefs-Based Branding, Intrinsic Branding, Leadership, Marketing, Social Media, Story, Team
As the director of marketing, you are one person. You are one person who acts as the chief mouthpiece, the brilliant broadcaster and the tenacious town crier for your big …
The Future of Your Brand Starts Now
Filed Under: 21st Century Branding, Beliefs-Based Branding, Intrinsic Branding, Leadership, Marketing, Social Media, Story, Team
By Emily Soccorsy and Justin Foster One of the downsides of being an engaged leader in a company is that you really want the company to succeed. You want the …
What Fear Does to Your Brand
Filed Under: 21st Century Branding, Beliefs-Based Branding, Intrinsic Branding, Leadership, Marketing
In our work as brand excavators and strategists, we are not working to shoehorn your brand or business into a pre-set market position that we’ve deemed advantageous. That’s Old World …
The Off-The-Record Factor: Share Stories You’d Normally Hide
Filed Under: 21st Century Branding, Beliefs-Based Branding, Intrinsic Branding, Leadership, Marketing, Story
If you were being interviewed by The New York Times about the success of your brand, what would you say? (I’ll give you a moment). Would you explain how you made …
BrandLab Attendee, We’d Like You to Meet Someone. Yourself.
Filed Under: 21st Century Branding, Beliefs-Based Branding, Intrinsic Branding, Leadership, Marketing, Story, Team, Workshops
When is the last time you raced against your buddies to make and fly a paper airline? Or when have you last handwritten something sacred and private, folded it up …
Rethinking Branding in the Age of Reimagined Capitalism
Filed Under: 21st Century Branding, Beliefs-Based Branding, Intrinsic Branding, Leadership, Marketing
By Emily Soccorsy + Justin Foster One of the greatest pains of modern thinking is our addiction to dualism. While we are used to seeing this us-versus-them, black-or-white approach in …
Don’t Tell Stories. Excavate Them. By Jennifer Lawhead
Filed Under: 21st Century Branding, Beliefs-Based Branding, Intrinsic Branding, Leadership, Marketing, Story
“That’s the story!” I exclaimed to a client on a recent storytelling and content coaching call. If I’ve learned anything from our clients recently, it’s this: when it comes to …
Synthesis Episode #12: Marcia Reynolds On How Coaching Can Shift Living
Filed Under: 21st Century Branding, Beliefs-Based Branding, Intrinsic Branding, Leadership
As Our twelfth episode features Marcia Reynolds, Psy D., Marcia is the author of three books, The Discomfort Zone, Outsmart Your Brainand Wander Woman, with a fourth book on coaching …
