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Customer Journey Mapping | Step 1 – The Inkling
Customer Journey Mapping | Step 1 – The Inkling

Through customer journey mapping, you create a guide for how, when, and where to engage with your potential customers.

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Strategic innovationDan SalvaDecember 4, 2015Customer journey mapping
Customer experience is your brand
Customer experience is your brand

One person can tell us how we should think about our brand – your customer. Your brand is your customer experience.

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Strategic innovationDan SalvaNovember 27, 2015Brand, customer experience
Why meaning is becoming a brand must
Why meaning is becoming a brand must

We need something that is stickier. Something that withstands the onslaught of the latest thing vying for our prospect’s attention. Something that has staying power.

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Strategic innovationDan SalvaNovember 20, 2015Brand, brand purpose
People are yearning for meaning. Does your brand deliver?
People are yearning for meaning. Does your brand deliver?

It’s no longer enough to talk about your products and services. Today, people yearn for more. Find the Big Audacious Meaning in your brand.

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Strategic innovationDan SalvaNovember 13, 2015Brand, brand purpose
Let's take back branding
Let's take back branding

Branding is way more powerful than a color. Or a typeface. Or a tagline. Branding is your entire organization as seen through the eyes of the world.

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Strategic innovationDan SalvaNovember 6, 2015Branding
Feature-driven branding makes you incredibly forgettable
Feature-driven branding makes you incredibly forgettable

We need a reason to care before we want the details of the offer. So lay off the feature-driven branding.

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Brand storytellingDan SalvaOctober 30, 2015Branding, video
Why your sales and marketing alignment needs an intervention
Why your sales and marketing alignment needs an intervention

I’m going to give away a huge secret of a successful sales and marketing alignment effort. Sales doesn’t get to be right. Marketing doesn’t get to be right.

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Strategic innovationDan SalvaOctober 23, 2015sales and marketing alignment
Strategy isn't just answering the question - it's solving the problem
Strategy isn't just answering the question - it's solving the problem

Sometimes we get so caught up in answering the question that we miss out on solving the problem. That's why you should start with strategy.

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Strategic innovationDan SalvaOctober 16, 2015strategy
A freakin’ awesome brand is visionary
A freakin’ awesome brand is visionary

A visionary brand champions something meaningful and worthwhile in our world. It creates an impassioned desire among people to be part of the quest.

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Strategic innovationDan SalvaOctober 9, 2015Brand, Branding
Isn’t my mission my brand?
Isn’t my mission my brand?

We need to define who we are (organizational strategy). And we need to define why we are valuable to those we serve (brand strategy).

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Strategic innovationDan SalvaOctober 2, 2015Brand, Branding
Mommy, where does a brand come from?
Mommy, where does a brand come from?

Defining the brand starts with a compelling and meaningful story. It may be in your history. Or it may be waiting to be revealed in what you do today.

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Brand storytellingDan SalvaSeptember 25, 2015Brand, Brand Strategy
Why brand? Because it's good business.
Why brand? Because it's good business.

The brand holds the potential to add real value to the organization. Not just some squishy, feel-good value. Cold, hard cash value.

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Strategic innovationDan SalvaSeptember 18, 2015Brand
Branding: it’s not rocket science. It’s brain science.
Branding: it’s not rocket science. It’s brain science.

Branding is powerful because it appeals to the part of our brain that is responsible for feeling and – surprisingly – decision making.

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Strategic innovationDan SalvaSeptember 11, 2015Branding
Video + emotion = killer content
Video + emotion = killer content

There is a tsunami of bad video coming. We don’t have to be part of it. In fact, let’s be the other guys. The ones creating killer video content.

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Content MarketingDan SalvaSeptember 4, 2015content marketing, video
A great brand starts with "why"
A great brand starts with "why"

When a brand has a clearly-stated purpose, people will go out of their way to engage with and get behind the brand.

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Brand storytellingDan SalvaAugust 28, 2015Brand, Purpose
What is your expertise?
What is your expertise?

You have to be good at it, passionate about it, and do it in a unique way. This is your expertise.

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Strategic innovationDan SalvaAugust 21, 2015expertise, Strategic innovation
Storytelling is dead! Seriously?
Storytelling is dead! Seriously?

Storytelling is still incredibly powerful. Anybody who says otherwise doesn’t know how to do it effectively, or is just trying to get a rise out of you.

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Brand storytellingDan SalvaAugust 14, 2015Brand Story, storytelling
What happens when your user experience insults us.
What happens when your user experience insults us.

Understand what makes a great user experience on your site. It’s no different than understanding how the people you hire would represent your company.

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User ExperienceDan SalvaAugust 7, 2015user experience
Content marketing: start with 'what' to say, not 'where' to say it
Content marketing: start with 'what' to say, not 'where' to say it

We have to focus on our prospects needs first by offering them something valuable and interesting with our content marketing.

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Content MarketingDan SalvaJuly 31, 2015content marketing
Death before disco and the value of storytelling
Death before disco and the value of storytelling

When you create the opportunity for storytelling, you create extraordinary value that can boost the asking price of your offering.

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Brand storytellingDan SalvaJuly 24, 2015brand value, storytelling
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