HeyJaredThe Branding Newsletter
I’m an award-winning brand strategist & creative director. Each week, I break down one brand decision founders and CMOs actually wrestle with—and show you how strategy and story work together to create clarity.
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The Show I Forgot I Watched (opens the original)
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Last week, my husband and I finally got a night to start a new show together. Both kids asleep, which at our house qualifies as a miracle with witnesses. Me curled up on our Acid Jungle print couch, under the big yellow blanket, holding my nightly mocktail of tart cherry juice, a scoop of magnesium, and a splash of Cherry Vanilla Olipop. I realize that sounds invented. It is not.We started scrolling, and I said the sentence I have been thinking about ever since.“I’ve heard great things about Sev
The Empty Tank Top (opens the original)
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I got in trouble on my first day at Abercrombie & Fitch for asking a customer if she needed help.Lakeside Mall, summer of 2000. The lights were low enough that you could barely read a size tag, the cologne came through the vents so it hit you before the door did, and the music was loud enough that customers didn’t talk to us. They pointed.I had assumed that was a side effect, but it was all part of the setup. The manager, a bulky blonde a couple of years my senior with a perfect crew cut, pulled
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