An example of assumptions

If you find hard to come up with what assumptions look like, I’ll play guineapig for you. ๐Ÿ™‚

Brand and Marketing consultants

  • Focus on choosing brand or marketing as strategic OR tactical.
  • It’s all about storytelling.
  • Focus on experiences โ€”selling experiences.
  • It’s about convincing people.
  • Look for product-market fit.
  • Try to create their “own” category
  • Will help you build your “category of one”
  • Will build you a monopoly of one.
  • Bill by the hour.
  • Take price, cost and rate as the same thing.
  • Focus on “strategy”
  • Focus on hacks
  • Sell you hacks
  • Are growth-oriented
  • Get stuck in “purpose”
  • Are all agile
  • Bring solutions
  • Are partners to their clients
  • Talk about you having a strong “personal brand”
  • Create “though-leadership”
  • Are thought-leaders
  • Know better than you.
  • Focus on educating the audience
  • Argue there are blue ocean/red oceans

What would you add to this set of assumptions?

What am I missing? ๐Ÿ™‚

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