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I've helped 100+ founders make brand decisions. The most expensive one is always naming a second product separately.
Intuit paid $12B for Mailchimp, spent years keeping it visually apart from TurboTax, and is now paying again with a global rebrand to reconnect them.
Every separate product name is a brand you'll eventually have to pay to reunite. The bill arrives when you try to cross-sell and your customers can't see the connection.
Before you name product two: write one sentence on how it makes product one more valuable to the same buyer. If you can, it's a capability, not a brand.
thebrightmethod.substack.com
Every Product Name Is a Future Invoice
The second logo always costs more
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I wrote a great hook for this one..
That's a fib, but here's a truth, you sell more when you fit into your customers' routines.
Need an example? Afters is for finding underground parties in Berlin. There are so many ways people can find parties from Resident Advisor to posters on lampposts.
The easy CTA for a brand like Afters is "Find Underground Parties in Berlin".
Short, clear, to the point,
But most people already search on Resident Advisor, how would that line convince them to change their behaviour and search Afters? Unfortunately being a "cooler" app doesn't motivate many people.
With a clear strategy, I delivered a way in that RA could never hope for.
Afters pulls from sources where line ups are posted last minute or after the event – Telegram groups, fan websites, Soundcloud – and being for people in the scene, they're the kind of folk who go to a party for the vibe and look up DJs after the fact.
So I did the opposite of what you'd expect.
If you want to know who you just danced to, ask Afters.
Instead of competing to be the place to find parties in the future, I found a key moment the target audience has a problem that Afters is uniquely positioned to solve and built the strategy around it. No one can compete, because no one else works like Afters.
Problem -> Strategy -> Branding
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