Narratives for a new tomorrow

Business Narrative Transformation

Own your own market

Growth is the goal of any business. However, with new growth also comes new business problems.

Whenever a company innovates a solution, expands its capabilities, or pivots to a new audience, it creates a challenge: products can lack fit and alignment or, worse, move the business into another space with heavy competition. Messaging gets complicated. Complexity confuses customers; and a confused mind never buys.

Growth stalls when people don’t get what you do and what it does for them. In a noisy market rampant with ADHD, your brand story needs to be a silver bullet. But herein lies the problem. Brand story models focus on the company, not the customer. They’re designed to maintain an audience, not drive it.

Owning a market takes owning a unique customer journey that starts with an opportunity and ends with you as the category-of-one solution. This necessitates category strategy to define the gap and market opportunity, story design to change beliefs, and demand creation to attract your ideal audience.

Brand stories do not create category opportunities.
Business narratives do.

Business Narrative Transformation redesigns your story to put you at the center of change for your customers, elevating your solution to the gold standard. As the leader, you’ll unlock net-new growth opportunities, freeing you to innovate and transform the market like none before.

Stories for new opportunities

  1. Go-to-market

    Introduce your category innovation to the market

  2. Repositioning

    Pivot your business to reach a new audience or opportunity

  3. Funding

    Raise capital or increase funding, donations, and valuations

  4. Funnels

    Attract your audience and create demand

Case
Studies

Christopher LaFranchi
Founder & CEO
OneReef.org

Paulo quickly grasped the essence of OneReef, our model, and our dedication to serving ocean communities. Then he translated that understanding into the vision document we need going forward–with vibrance, clarity, and emotional connection.

Nigel Cullington
VP of Marketing | Sales Effectiveness
Upland Altify

I’ve had the privilege to work with Paulo over the last few years including a huge project to develop, build, and launch the new category of Customer Revenue Optimization (CRO).
Paulo is far greater than a designer, a content architect, and a category maker, he is simply an invaluable part of our extended revenue team and how we drive value for our customers and our company!

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