What's New
ResourceApril 9, 2026
New Whitepaper: The Two-Step Positioning Survey
We published a new whitepaper: The Two-Step Positioning Survey: Why You Need To Ask Your Customers First.
What It Covers
- Why most marketers skip the only step that matters: the AIDA "Attention" gap and how the wrong word kills otherwise great campaigns
- The HOOK is not the MESSAGE: definitions, why they get confused, and why your existing customers are the only audience that can give you a real hook
- Step 1 — Hook Discovery (Attention Study): the 5 open-ended questions that surface unprompted customer vocabulary
- Step 2 — Positioning Survey: the canonical 5 steps to find the comparison object you will position your brand against, with, above, or below
- Worked Example #1 — TANK PHONE: how a startup found the word "indestructible" in customer answers and built a $0 to $30M brand on it
- Worked Example #2 — Daytona racing car: how an ISP turned the customer-supplied word "speed" into the ad campaign that beat Warner Brothers cable
- How to apply this on your own customer base in 48 hours: the practical 5-action playbook
Why It Matters
You cannot position a brand. You can only build positioning around the words your customers already use. This whitepaper is the foundation methodology behind the [free Positioning Analyzer](/positioning-analyzer) tool that hands you a launch-ready Step 1 hook discovery survey in 60 seconds.
Download
Download it free from the [Whitepapers](/whitepapers) page. No form required.