Tag: Decision Making

How people evaluate options, manage uncertainty, interpret evidence, and ultimately choose whether and how to act.

How to work with positioning

How to work with positioning

I’ll say it right away: positioning is not an easy thing. Most likely you won’t “solve” it in one attempt. This article is meant to push you into doing the work. How your positioning will take shape Why positioning matters Positioning exists to help you stand out. In everyday language, people call it “differentiating from […]

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Marketing Frameworks for Creatives

Marketing Frameworks for Creatives

Let me explain it “on fingers” one more time. A marketing framework is a “working marketing frame” — from English frame (a frame) and work (work). Work is not a wolf. Work is… “work”. Why is it a working marketing frame? Because its тезисы-пункты (thesis-points) give your thinking a direction: they drop the right concepts […]

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HOW NOT TO HANDLE NEGATIVE FEEDBACK

HOW NOT TO HANDLE NEGATIVE FEEDBACK

Using “School of Rock” as an example (VK link; for readers outside Russia: VK is a major Russian social network, roughly comparable to a Facebook-style platform in how communities and comment threads work). Ethical disclaimer: I’m pointing to the source where I found this example because it’s already public. Any SMM specialist or paid-traffic manager […]

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“The Streisand Effect” or: DON’T DELETE NEGATIVE REVIEWS

“The Streisand Effect” or: DON’T DELETE NEGATIVE REVIEWS

Act I: The Diva Meet Barbra Streisand. And yes — Barbra, not Barbara. Barbra, these are people. People, this is Barbra. Nice to meet you all. As we say in Russian: “a sportswoman, a komsomolka (member of Komsomol; Soviet youth organisation), and simply a beauty!” (A very old catchphrase — meaning: she’s got it all.) […]

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How to Work with the 4C and 4P Marketing Frameworks

How to Work with the 4C and 4P Marketing Frameworks

Foundation A marketing framework is, in plain language, a “working frame” for marketing. There are HUNDREDS of marketing frameworks. 4C and 4P are the ones we use in our approach for these reasons: First, they’re simple frameworks for building a strategic base for a brand. Second, they work like binocular vision. Both frameworks describe the same reality, […]

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Ad Copy Mini-Case for a Russian Psychologists’ Community

Ad Copy Mini-Case for a Russian Psychologists’ Community

About the project in this case: These are “online psychologists” services like Alter, Yasno, and Zigmund.Online (Russian online therapy platforms). They call themselves “Easy Life Center”. Maybe one day I’ll write a fuller case about them (most likely, yes), but right now I’m focusing on the copy. Everything below is written in my voice: Creatives: […]

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Panoramic Roof: Full Rebrand & Repositioning in One Month

Panoramic Roof: Full Rebrand & Repositioning in One Month

Who and what is “Panoramic Roof”? It’s a company that gives people a legal way to see Saint Petersburg from a panoramic rooftop viewpoint on the building that currently hosts Nevsky Centre (a large shopping mall on Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg). There used to be more rooftops available, yet after a few messy incidents […]

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The Buyer’s Journey for Psychologists and Coaches

The Buyer’s Journey for Psychologists and Coaches

The advantage of the conversion-funnel framework called “The Buyer’s Journey” is in one simple idea: strictly speaking, it isn’t a funnel model.It’s a set of psycho-logical checkpoints in the customer’s decision to buy.Both psycho and logical. After gathering a group of psychologists and coaches (in the Russian market, “coach” often means a life/business coach, not […]

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