Power Positioning isn’t a marketing tactic. It’s the strategic framework I’ve built over 35 years and $3B+ in revenue to help growth-stage firms stop competing on price and start owning a category. Here’s the full framework.
Tag: Power Positioning
How I Structure Content So AI Cites It
AI answers now settle most searches before a click happens. The visitors who still arrive are worth more, not less. SOME is the four-move framework I teach to become the source AI cites.
How I Test a Firm’s Positioning in Two Minutes (With AI)
Paste your homepage into an AI tool and ask for a three-sentence summary. Do the same for five competitors. If the six summaries are interchangeable, you have a description, not a position. Here’s the fix.
Why Positioning Is an Operating System (Not a Tagline)
Michel Fortin argues positioning isn’t a tagline but a company-wide operating decision — which buyer you’re built to close, what proof you can defend — that marketing, sales, product, and hiring all inherit. His FAME pillars operationalize it.
Why I Brandify Categories Instead of Branding Products
Branding and brandifying differ. Branding decorates what already exists; brandifying names something into existence so it can be owned. I’ve done the latter for 35 years. Here’s the line, the move, and why category-claiming firms must brandify.
Why My First Two Months Look Nothing Like a 100-Day Accelerator
The first two months of an engagement with me look quiet from the outside. I do not launch a campaign in week one. I do not hand you a framework in week two. I spend the first eight to nine weeks diagnosing your revenue system before I recommend a single tactic. If that sounds slower than what the accelerator-sellers promise, it is. Here is why the quiet is the point.
What a Revenue Architect Actually Does
The Revenue Architect title is showing up in more LinkedIn profiles this year than the last five combined. Some operators are doing the work. Most are not. Here is what a Revenue Architect actually does, how the role sits alongside a CMO, CRO, and Head of Growth, and how to tell the two apart when you are hiring.
The Context Vault That Makes AI Amplify Your Voice, Not The Average
AI cannot represent you if you never gave it enough of you to work with. This is the Context Vault I built to feed AI my frameworks, stories, voice, and IP so the output comes back wearing my fingerprints, not the industry mean.
Why Consulting Firms Need a Different Kind of Fractional CMO
Consulting firms grow through authority, not demand generation. Most fractional CMO playbooks are built for product companies and miss what actually holds a consulting firm back. Here is what the work looks like when it is done properly, why the standard playbook fails, and when the fit is right.