Rankings can look healthy while pipeline drifts. The Triple-P Model reads visibility in three layers, Presence, Prominence, and Performance, and the AI era just changed the units to claims, coverage, and demand.
Tag: Power Positioning
Power Positioning and What It Really Means to Own a Place in Your Market
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.
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. It’s 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.
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 Expert-Led 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.
Why the Smallest Flaw Sets the Ceiling on Your Brand
The smallest visible flaw sets the ceiling on how buyers judge everything else about your brand. This is the ketchup principle, the psychology underneath it, and how to make it work for you instead of against you.