This is the crux of all new businesses - you need to stand out with something original and exciting, but your audience needs something familiar to grasp onto. Your ideas need to set you apart yet be inclusive. Show us a “better way” of doing things without forcing us to abandon what we’ve grown comfortable with.

When businesses can’t find this middle ground, their failure isn’t so much in the product but in their communication around the product. The business fully understands the genius behind their actions, but all its audience hears is Greek.

The question stands: how do you bring forward an original idea without alienating audiences with your genius?

We’ll be discussing 3 things during this podcast:

1. A breakdown of the Modified Originality Scale
2. How Businesses Fail To Present Originality
3. How to Create An Original Brand

I strongly recommend you start by understanding your brand archetypal mix, and we have a FREE quiz for that.

You can join our BAMFam Community dedicated to aligning your brand. We have Free Alignment resources there as well.

Finally, if you find yourself in need of guidance with your brand alignment. We have our BAM Academy, and frameworks to help you with that. I would start with The Big BAM Process, this is the brand strategy framework we have led thousands of clients through and we have a self-guided option as well.

If you would like to be a guest on our podcast you can contact us.

Brands don’t just happen. They’re grown from the connection between a business and its audience. How the brand grows directly results from the conditions it is subjected to. Just because you have a business doesn’t mean you have a brand, and vice versa. 

We will be taking this idea from three angles: 

1. How the conflicts faced in human development compare to brand growth
2. How most businesses struggle and fail to grow their brand
3. How to consistently evolve, grow, and mature your brand

I strongly recommend you start by understanding your brand archetypal mix, and we have a FREE quiz for that.

You can join our BAMFam Community dedicated to aligning your brand. We have Free Alignment resources there as well.

Finally, if you find yourself in need of guidance with your brand alignment. We have our BAM Academy, and frameworks to help you with that. I would start with The Big BAM Process, this is the brand strategy framework we have led thousands of clients through and we have a self-guided option as well.

If you would like to be a guest on our podcast you can contact us.

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The idea of archetypes goes back to before recorded history. You can find them, feel them, in every fable and myth from cultures all over the world. The system of archetypes draws straight from our collective unconscious - it is the same for everyone. They are used by everyone and belong to no one. The potency of the archetype shows up in how you use them. 

However, YOUR archetypal mix is unique. While there are 12 archetypes within all of us - each archetype manifests depending on situations, contexts, and other present archetypes - your archetypal mix is made of the traits of only a few of these characters. 

Misuse an archetype, and it becomes a burden on your brand. Use them well, and you can find yourself with the kind of clarity business owners pay millions for. 

This is not a call to change the colours of your logo. This isn’t about a “refresh.”  This is something much bigger.

Every system needs calibration. Your brand is a system, and it requires frequent calibration.

A simple enough statement, but as with anything in the BAM universe, it is loaded with all kinds of meaning.

We’ll be discussing 3 things during this podcast:

1. When it comes to “branding,” what do we mean when we say “recalibrate” and “alignment”?
2. How you probably approached building your initial brand and the problems I bet you’re having right now.
3. How to calibrate the brand you have into the brand you need.

I strongly recommend you start by understanding your brand archetypal mix, and we have a FREE quiz for that.

You can join our BAMFam Community dedicated to aligning your brand. We have Free Alignment resources there as well.

Finally, if you find yourself in need of guidance with your brand alignment. We have our BAM Academy, and frameworks to help you with that.

I would start with The Big BAM Process, this is the brand strategy framework I have led thousands of clients through and we have a self-guided option as well.

If you would like to be a guest on our podcast you can contact us.

They love to talk about the sales funnel, don’t they?

Here’s what I think: the “funnel” approach to the client journey happened because most salespeople lack a foundation understanding of their brand. Or, more likely, their brand has no foundation in the first place. The companies using the sales funnel analogy will likely revert to saying, "this is the easiest way for our sales team to visualize the process.” 

Good for the sales team, I suppose. But if they aren’t the ones going through the process - why do they need to visualize it? Does the customer know when they are, or aren’t, in someone’s sales funnel?  Do you, dear reader, understand when you become a sales-qualified lead? 

But what if it wasn’t a funnel? What if your client's journey was something more circular? Something more…infinite? 

We’ll be discussing 3 things during this podcast:

1. Where the idea of the client journey started
2. How most companies build a client journey for their brand
3. How understanding DNA (yes, science stuff) can create a more sustainable client cycle.
   
   

I strongly recommend you start by understanding your brand archetypal mix, and we have a FREE quiz for that.

You can join our BAMFam Community dedicated to aligning your brand. We have Free Alignment resources there as well.

Finally, if you find yourself in need of guidance with your brand alignment. We have our BAM Academy, and frameworks to help you with that.

I would start with The Big BAM Process, this is the brand strategy framework I have led thousands of clients through and we have a self-guided option as well.

If you would like to be a guest on our podcast you can contact us.

When you think about how products/services are presented what comes to mind? Is it the 3 tiered model we see online? Why is it presented that way? There has to be an intention and purpose to that design, and although we may have the system displayed correctly based on eternal patterns of psychology. 

How we get there is the much-needed debate that needs to be had. As we are going about this all wrong. 

We need to dive into the layers to understand why Features x Benefits = Product/Service is a better way to reach this outcome.

We’ll be discussing 3 things during this podcast:

1. What are products/services defined and their purpose?
2. How we are reverse-engineering the wrong way with our model. 
3. Why the model Features x Benefits = Product/Service works better.
   
   
   

I strongly recommend you start by understanding your brand archetypal mix, and we have a FREE quiz for that.

You can join our BAMFam Community dedicated to aligning your brand. We have Free Alignment resources there as well.

Finally, if you find yourself in need of guidance with your brand alignment. We have our BAM Academy, and frameworks to help you with that.

I would start with The Big BAM Process, this is the brand strategy framework I have led thousands of clients through and we have a self-guided option as well.

If you would like to be a guest on our podcast you can contact us.

When it comes to your brand, culture creates community, and the community then guides the culture.

It takes a village to raise a child. 

Every member of the village - the community - pitches into mold how every child grows and learns. 

Why? Because those children will eventually grow up to be the elders, teachers, mentors, and leaders who help raise the next generation. 

No one is selling anything, everyone is involved, and everyone benefits. In a similar light, it takes a community to sustain your brand.  And when the community builds itself around the ideals of your brand, it becomes a tribe. 

These aren’t your customers, this isn’t your audience - these are members of your tribe.

Tribal members do whatever is necessary to protect the sanctity of what holds them together from one generation or evolution to the next. They help cultivate new members while shielding their ideals and virtues from the negative elements that might limit what they can do. 

When done right, your brand’s community will guide you on where they want to go next. 

We’ll be discussing 3 things during this podcast:

1.  Practical definitions of community and tribe.
2.  All of the ways brands are abusing their sense of community. 
3.  How using communities in the way they are designed to be will build your brand.
   
   

I strongly recommend you start by understanding your brand archetypal mix, and we have a FREE quiz for that.

You can join our BAMFam Community dedicated to aligning your brand. We have Free Alignment resources there as well.

Finally, if you find yourself in need of guidance with your brand alignment. We have our BAM Academy, and frameworks to help you with that.

I would start with The Big BAM Process, this is the brand strategy framework I have led thousands of clients through and we have a self-guided option as well.

If you would like to be a guest on our podcast you can contact us.

If you are new to the BAMcast then welcome, but if you have been following the series I’m sure you’re starting to get used to the rhythm and deconstructing process by now. 

It’s amazing how many words we use in business and branding that we’ve never actually given much thought to before - they've just become buzzwords that get thrown around to sound knowledgeable without any consideration for what they really mean and whether we’re using them properly.

For example, this month, we’re starting to target our thinking around the impact of brand culture - specifically, YOUR brand culture. 

Go figure, culture is one of those words we use without really thinking about what it means.

We’ll be discussing 3 things during this podcast:

1. What is the definition of culture & what impact does it have on our brand?
2. The ways in which brand culture is misunderstood.
3. How to create an aligned and unique culture that is right for your brand.

I strongly recommend you start by understanding your brand archetypal mix, and we have a FREE quiz for that.

You can join our BAMFam Community dedicated to aligning your brand. We have Free Alignment resources there as well.

Finally, if you find yourself in need of guidance with your brand alignment. We have our BAM Academy, and frameworks to help you with that.

I would start with The Big BAM Process, this is the brand strategy framework I have led thousands of clients through and we have a self-guided option as well.

If you would like to be a guest on our podcast you can contact us.

“Resonance” feels like a word you hear all the time, but could you define what it means?

Merriam-Webster has seven official definitions of the word ranging from music to electrical systems to mechanical frequencies. 

To the layperson, though, the verb form of resonance - resonate - has taken on the modern slang of “to vibe.” 

Does this resonate with you?

Does this vibe with you? 

The essential, modern, meaning of the word:

• To continue to produce a loud, clear sound for a long time
• To have a particular, important meaning to someone in a personal or emotional way

Does this vibe with you?

Yet, we see the word resonate thrown around in the buzzword-loaded lexicon of the business world nowadays as a term used when marketing professionals can’t think of anything better.

When in doubt, throw up something that’s not entirely accurate but sounds good enough that no one would want to spend time arguing with it. 

Then we end up with jumbled messaging that we hope vibes, syncs, or connects with our audience.

Reader, it’s time to realign. It’s time to ditch the pitch and start crafting messages that draw audiences in with magnetic aptitude.

It’s time to strike the right chord and let it resonate.

We’ll be discussing 3 things during this podcast:

1. That Gut Feeling- Why is resonance so important to your messaging?
2. Push vs. Pull - The difference between your magnetic message and a pitch.
3. Magnetic Messages speak to the Unconscious Design - How to start crafting your magnetic message.

I strongly recommend you start by understanding your brand archetypal mix, and we have a FREE quiz for that.

You can join our BAMFam Community dedicated to aligning your brand. We have Free Alignment resources there as well.

Finally, if you find yourself in need of guidance with your brand alignment. We have our BAM Academy, and frameworks to help you with that.

I would start with The Big BAM Process, this is the brand strategy framework I have led thousands of clients through and we have a self-guided option as well.

If you would like to be a guest on our podcast you can contact us.

This is also the mentality behind any number of businesses that go into the market without a clear idea of who they serve. 

On any given day you can see a hundred different brands hoping that if they make the right product in the right way, with enough clever features and flashy copy, an infinite audience will arrive to buy their product hand over fist.

First, build it, then they will come - the shortcut to the Law of Attraction. 

The trouble is: the Law of Attraction is a strategy, not an excuse. Popular culture has taken the Law of Attraction to the extremes of absurdity. 

Use a positive mindset, focus your intentions, manifest your destiny, and you will drag it kicking and screaming into reality.

We’ll be discussing 3 things during this podcast:

1. Where the Law of Attraction came from and what it really is.
2. How to engage the Law of Attraction.
3. How to use the Law of Attraction to attract audiences that work for your brand.

I strongly recommend you start by understanding your brand archetypal mix, and we have a FREE quiz for that.

You can join our BAMFam Community dedicated to aligning your brand. We have Free Alignment resources there as well.

Finally, if you find yourself in need of guidance with your brand alignment. We have our BAM Academy, and frameworks to help you with that.

I would start with The Big BAM Process, this is the brand strategy framework I have led thousands of clients through and we have a self-guided option as well.

If you would like to be a guest on our podcast you can contact us.

“Branding” is a tricky thing to talk about. It’s one of those things where we all seem to know it when we see it, when we feel it, but to speak about brands and branding objectively, most of us are at a loss. 

Fortunately, in the past few years, we are seeing far more conversations where business owners are finally coming around to the idea that having a “brand” goes way beyond a nifty logo, a colour scheme, or a clever domain name. 

However, we’re still a long way from discussing brand as alignment. 

What is Brand Alignment? 

Dear business owner: know thyself. 

I’m willing to bet your brand is nowhere near as strong as it could be, purely because you built it on the wrong foundation.

Because without alignment, your brand will:

• Have difficulty connecting with clients
• Spill out messaging that hardly resonates
• Speak to audiences who may never buy from you/ work with you.
• Develop products that have an overinflated value with features that don’t solve your client’s problems
• Have zero consistency in what you say from one day to the next. 

This month’s topic is… Aligning Your Brand

We’ll be discussing 3 things during this podcast:

1. First off, why is it that the WHO should drive the narrative of the alignment?
2. Then, show you how we leverage this in our signature brand alignment process.
3. Finally, I’ll touch on the results you’re going to see when you apply an aligned brand to your business.

I strongly recommend you start by understanding your brand archetypal mix, and we have a FREE quiz for that.

You can join our BAMFam Community dedicated to aligning your brand. We have Free Alignment resources there as well.

Finally, if you find yourself in need of guidance with your brand alignment. We have our BAM Academy, and frameworks to help you with that.

I would start with The Big BAM Process, this is the brand strategy framework I have led thousands of clients through and we have a self-guided option as well.

If you would like to be a guest on our podcast you can contact us.

Knowledge tested is the process of understanding, and the evidence of that understanding becomes wisdom. Wisdom examined and tested from all angles with no bias to produce a constant result, is truth. Truth should have no bias and is foundational to the design we see and don’t see.

This month’s topic is… Brand Direction & Clarity around Critical Thinking & Problem-solving

We’ll be discussing 3 things during this podcast:

1. What defines critical thinking & problem-solving?
2. Why it should be fundamental in brand strategy?
3. How would we apply this to our brand strategy process?

I strongly recommend you start by understanding your brand archetypal mix, and we have a FREE quiz for that.

You can join our BAMFam Community dedicated to aligning your brand. We have Free Alignment resources there as well.

Finally, if you find yourself in need of guidance with your brand alignment. We have our BAM Academy, and frameworks to help you with that.

I would start with The Big BAM Process, this is the brand strategy framework I have led thousands of clients through and we have a self-guided option as well.

If you would like to be a guest on our podcast you can contact us.

The brand model has shifted from creating a brand to creating clients, or better yet… attracting clients. Since we have a strong desire to understand our purpose, we tend to make decisions based on the meaning that aligns and supports the purposeful narrative we strive to live out.

I'll be discussing these three points:

1. The difference between creating products/services vs. creating clients.
2. The creating clients model being executed, but imbalanced.
3. Simplifying a better model to transform your brand.

I strongly recommend you start by understanding your brand archetypal mix, and we have a FREE quiz for that.

You can join our BAMFam Community dedicated to aligning your brand. We have Free Alignment resources there as well.

Finally, if you find yourself in need of guidance with your brand alignment. We have our BAM Academy, and frameworks to help you with that.

I would start with The Big BAM Process, this is the brand strategy framework I have led thousands of clients through and we have a self-guided option as well.

If you would like to be a guest on our podcast you can contact us.

The anatomy of a brand can seem complex, but so are our human bodies. Yet we want to have our brands connect stronger with humans so it only made sense to structure it after anatomy. Here, I will deconstruct the complexities and symbiotic relationships of all the parts that make up a brand. I'll give you a hint... It starts with vision!

I'll be discussing these three points:

1. What is a brand?
2. The anatomy of a brand.
3. Where do I start?

I strongly recommend you start by understanding your brand archetypal mix, and we have a FREE quiz for that.

You can join our BAMFam Community dedicated to aligning your brand. We have Free Alignment resources there as well.

Finally, if you find yourself in need of guidance with your brand alignment. We have our BAM Academy, and frameworks to help you with that.

I would start with The Big BAM Process, this is the brand strategy framework I have led thousands of clients through and we have a self-guided option as well.

If you would like to be a guest on our podcast you can contact us.

This is our first ever BAMcast and we are talking about leveraging the 12 Archetypes discovered by Carl Jung which taps into our unconscious or subconscious design of how we interact with the world around us. If 95% of our buying decisions are subconscious. Then you would think archetypes, are something we should actually give more consideration to when creating or aligning our brand.

I'll be discussing these three points:

1. What is an archetype?
2. A bit of background on Archetypes
3. How to leverage archetypes to align your brand.

I strongly recommend you start by understanding your brand archetypal mix, and we have a FREE quiz for that.

You can join our BAMFam Community dedicated to aligning your brand. We have Free Alignment resources there as well.

Finally, if you find yourself in need of guidance with your brand alignment. We have our BAM Academy, and frameworks to help you with that.

I would start with The Big BAM Process, this is the brand strategy framework I have led thousands of clients through and we have a self-guided option as well.

If you would like to be a guest on our podcast you can contact us.