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 …
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 …
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 …
Ungrateful about marketing?
Filed Under: Marketing
Marketing is a little bit like a Rodney Dangerfield quote. It can’t get no respect. Everybody in the business wants great marketing and basically nobody wants to do great marketing. …
You’re in charge of marketing, right? No. You’re not.
Filed Under: 21st Century Branding, Beliefs-Based Branding, Intrinsic Branding, Leadership
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 …
3 Corporate Habits that Will Crush Your Entrepreneurial Spirit
Filed Under: 21st Century Branding, Beliefs-Based Branding, Intrinsic Branding, Leadership
We heart entrepreneurial people. We heart them wherever they may be, and whenever they might find us. In the last year, we’ve seen an increasing number of what we term …
Know Thyself: A 21st Century Branding Principle
Filed Under: 21st Century Branding, Intrinsic Branding, Leadership
One of the most surprising moments of a Root Session is when our beloved client has the realization their brand was already inside of them. We did not tell them …
Synthesis Episode 1: Why Digital Learning Still a Mystery to So Many
Filed Under: Leadership, Synthesis
EPISODE 1: Treion Muller and Digital Transformation LISTEN HERE Synthesis is a Root + River hosted webcast featuring nonconformist leaders whose ideas make them — and us — see the …
How do I monetize my talents?
Filed Under: 21st Century Branding, Beliefs-Based Branding, Leadership
Hi Hurray! You’ve realized we’re not just nutty spiritualists waiting for the clouds to part and money to fall like a tender rain. We are unabashed capitalists. Free marketeers. Supporters …