Positioning is a subtraction game
Most positioning exercises fail because they add. The good ones remove. A short essay on how to decide what your brand won't say — and why that decision is the whole ballgame.
Read →Short, practical essays from the studio. No listicles, no thought-leadership theatre — just the thinking we'd share with a client over coffee.
Most positioning exercises fail because they add. The good ones remove. A short essay on how to decide what your brand won't say — and why that decision is the whole ballgame.
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