• April 19, 2023
  • Chris Klonoski

Inspiration as Action

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Offering a little inspiration – as something your audience can participate in or dismiss – is an invitation.

  • October 24, 2022
  • Emily Soccorsy

Want to Keep Your Brand Healthy? Stop That and Start This

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Here are a few different ways to think about updating your care for your team and update your brand at the same time.

  • December 13, 2019
  • ROOT + RIVER

How Do I Do Big Marketing With A Small 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 …

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  • September 24, 2019
  • ROOT + RIVER

The Future of Your Brand Starts Now

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 …

Fear Brand
  • July 16, 2019
  • ROOT + RIVER

What Fear Does to Your Brand

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 …

Off the Record
  • June 27, 2019
  • ROOT + RIVER

The Off-The-Record Factor: Share Stories You’d Normally Hide

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 …

Root and River Brand Lab
  • June 26, 2019
  • ROOT + RIVER

BrandLab Attendee, We’d Like You to Meet Someone. Yourself.

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 …

Tell me a story
  • May 09, 2019
  • ROOT + RIVER

Don’t Tell Stories. Excavate Them. By Jennifer Lawhead

“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 …

Marcia Reynolds
  • May 08, 2019
  • ROOT + RIVER

Synthesis Episode #12: Marcia Reynolds On How Coaching Can Shift Living

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 …

synthesis
  • February 11, 2019
  • ROOT + RIVER

Synthesis Episode #11: Justin Zoradi on Incompleteness, Resistance and Pursuing Your Time

LISTEN HERE (audio + video) Synthesis is a Root + River hosted webcast featuring nonconformist leaders whose ideas make them — and us — see the world differently. Our eleventh …

Director of Marketing Nothing
  • November 02, 2018
  • ROOT + RIVER

You’re in charge of marketing, right? No. You’re not.

There’s this paradox about being responsible for the marketing of an organization: You are “in charge” of the brand and at the same time, you are not in charge of …

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  • October 01, 2018
  • ROOT + RIVER

What is your brand’s MLE (minimum level of excellence)?

By Emily Soccorsy and Justin Foster A brand is an organic, living thing. It is both a practice and a discipline. And yet there is also a baseline, or minimum, …