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CHARLESTON + NEW YORK + LOS ANGELES

Smarter Thinking.
Stronger Returns.

Smarter marketing for industrial companies. Complex sales. Long cycles. Real revenue.

Yes Please!

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The first move

Three weeks, fixed price. You leave with a position, a proof list and a ninety-day plan you own outright — whether or not you hire me after.

Over thirty years results

Who it's for

Is this your sale?

The Long Sale

Five moves. In order.

  1. 1

    Map the room

    Everyone who can say no, and what each one needs.

  2. 2

    Take a position

    One claim a competitor cannot copy by Friday.

  3. 3

    Build the proof

    Spec sheet, study, demo, the room itself.

  4. 4

    Put it in the path

    Where they already look. Search, show floor, inbox, rep.

  5. 5

    Feed the sale

    Air cover for the nine months after the lead.

Moves one to three build the brand. Four and five build demand. Start at move one

Experiential & interior branding

The last impression is a room.

Somewhere in those six months your buyer stops reading and walks in — onto a show floor, into a showroom, through a lobby, down a plant aisle. That room either finishes the argument or starts it over.

I design those rooms and I build them. Same hand as the positioning, so the wall says what the spec sheet said.

Bring me your floor plan

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Selected work

Built, not just briefed.

Example — Repositioning a commodity product line

Example — Repositioning a commodity product line

Replace this with what changed in the business. A number here is worth more than three paragraphs of adjectives.

Example — A show floor that carried the whole argument

Example — A show floor that carried the whole argument

Replace with the result. Show-floor projects usually have hard numbers attached — leads scanned, cost per lead, spend against the previous year.

Example — Rebuilding a brand across twenty sites

Example — Rebuilding a brand across twenty sites

Replace with the result.

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What that takes

Three rooms, one firm.

Brand

  • Positioning
  • Identity
  • Messaging
  • Copy & art direction

Demand

  • Media & search
  • Public relations
  • Web & content
  • Sales tools

Build

  • Exhibits & displays
  • Showrooms & interiors
  • Props & environments
  • Fabrication

The last column is the one nobody else on your list has.

Who you get

You get me.

Thirty years on this sale, most of them inside it — vice president of marketing for a group of brands selling equipment that takes six months and four signatures to buy.

Not a team you meet once, at the pitch.

The long version

Is this your sale?

Twenty minutes. If I am the wrong fit, I will say so on the call.

Start the fit check 843-822-5100