Episodes
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Everyone thinks they’re a marketer.
The CEO has an idea. The finance manager has an idea. Someone's teenage daughter discovered Instagram over the weekend. Suddenly everyone has a revolutionary marketing strategy that will transform the business.
In this episode, Brand Strategist Jack Ferguson draws on stories from marketers across Reddit and LinkedIn, to examine why marketing attracts unsolicited advice, why "good ideas" are often worthless, and how marketers can respond when non-marketers mistake their opinion for expertise.
He covers:
Why everyone thinks they’re a marketerHow marketers can professionally (and unprofessionally) respond to uninformed suggestionsWhy marketers receive so much unsolicited adviceSome of the strangest client requests marketers have receivedViable ways to channel stakeholder ideas without taking on much larger workloadsThe role of evidence, execution, and accountability in marketing decisionsWhat marketers really wish they could say to non-marketersThis episode features examples from Reddit, LinkedIn, client work, and the collective trauma of the marketing profession.
Helpful Links:
Find Jack:
- On LinkedIn
- At his personal website
Follow The Push:
- On LinkedIn
- On YouTube Music
- On TikTok
- On Instagram -
Brand strategy is easily derailed.
All of a sudden, the whole company invites itself into the room, sales invents three new offer names, the CEO wants the brand to feel “premium”, and nobody can accurately explain what the business does.In this solo episode, Jack Ferguson answers brand strategy questions from Reddit that cover a spectrum of issues that arise within companies.
He covers:
How to stop brand strategy meetings turning into philosophy clubWhat to do when your positioning, USP, and messaging get a “nobody cares” response from the marketHow to know whether your positioning is effectiveThe impact of changing a brand name on brand equityHow to think of a personal brand vs a company brandWays in which “premium” positioning falls apartHow to know whether you need a rebrand or refreshWhat to do when sales, marketing, leadership, and customer success all describe the brand differentlyBrand Architecture issues after mergers and acquisitionsPrerequisites to altering brand assets like your logoHelpful Links:
Find Jack:
- On LinkedIn
- Website
Find The Push:
- On LinkedIn
- On YouTube Music
- On TikTok
- On Instagram
- Website -
Most companies blame execution when growth plateaus.
So they start doing more outbound, making better ad creative, creating new landing pages, building sharper sales scripts, and tightening the alignment between sales and marketing. But often, the problem isn’t execution, it's market understanding.
In this episode, Jack Ferguson hosts Buyer Researcher Ryan Gibson to help you understand when poor growth is an execution problem and when it is a market understanding problem.
Using examples from SaaS, enterprise software, startups, and B2B sales environments, they explore how buyers make decisions, why status quo bias is stronger than many realise, and why customer feedback alone is seldom enough to glean broad market insights.
They cover:- How Amazon use qualitative data to break the tie of a GTM decision
- The % of revenue Salesforce reinvests back into their GTM
- How to get feedback from buying committees you don’t ordinarily get access to- How to know if you have a market understanding problem or execution problem? (incl. real examples of each)
- The lead and lag indicators that indicate a company lacks the market understanding to effectively grow
- The issues with using surveys for quantitative research
- How you can use AI to complement your market research efforts
- Low cost approaches to doing B2B market research
- Ways to get your company to start investing in market understanding
- How to get market and buyer truths
- What strong resistance to pricing tells you
- How qualitative conversations uncover what dashboards and CRM data can’t
- The benefits and drawbacks of relying on sales teams for market understanding
- What conditions need to be in place for large B2B companies to change providers
- The limitations of relying on customers for market insightHelpful Links:
Where to find Jack:
- LinkedIn
- Website
Where to find Ryan:
- LinkedIn
- Content Lift Website
Where to find The Push:
- LinkedIn
- YouTube Music
- Instagram
- TikTok
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In Part 3 of this series, the rubber hits the road.
After breaking down brand diagnostics and strategy in the previous two episodes, this episode moves into what gets built: brand assets, how to prioritise them, and how they compound (or don’t) over time.
Brand Strategist Jack Ferguson is your host.
He discusses:
Which brand asset is the most important, and whyWhat Asset Hierarchy is and how to think about itThe trade-offs between ease of consumption and distinctivenessWhen a name change is strategically justified, and when it’s notWhat separates a strong brand name from a weak one How to think about building vs identifying distinctivenessHow to maintain equity during brand refreshesWhat it means to “smash your brand”Helpful Links:
Find Jack:- On LinkedIn
- At His Personal Website
Follow The Push:
- On LinkedIn- On Instagram
- On YouTube Music
- On TikTok
- At The Push Website -
A Brand Strategy is often dismissed as ‘fluff’ because it’s poorly defined, inconsistently applied, and confused with tactics, communications, advertising, or visual identity.
In Part 2 of this series, we move beyond the theory of brand as a function of memory and why buyers buy to define specific strategic outputs, explain how they’re informed, and model scenarios in which they’re used. This episode presents a unifying idea of brand strategy that holds up for marketers and remains accessible to non-marketers.
This episode covers:
How brand strategy operates as a set of outputs that shape decisions across an organisation Scenario modelling across two distinct operating environments: a B2B accounting firm and a high-urgency B2C retailer How an effective brand strategy aligns incentives, operating models, and capability, not just communications and advertising outputs Why most competitive advantage comes from structure, not messaging or creativity A practical test to determine whether something is strategic or tacticalThe core outputs of brand strategy, how they’re informed, and how they’re used The role of memory, association, and expectation in reinforcing or violating brand strategyBrand Strategist Jack Ferguson hosts this episode.
Helpful Links:
Where to find Jack:
- Find Jack on LinkedIn
- Find Jack at his Website
Where to find The Push:
- Follow The Push on LinkedIn
- Subscribe to The Push on YouTube Music
- Follow The Push on TikTok
- Follow The Push on Instagram
- Visit The Push Website
Resources Mentioned:
- RSPCA Commercial
- Budweiser + Jay Z Commercial
- 2013 Budweiser Super Bowl Ad -
Most definitions of ‘brand’ focus on what a company produces, like logos, names, and design systems, but fail to explain what brand is, how it drives commercial outcomes, and how it is measured.
In Part 1 of this series, we define brand comprehensively while keeping it accessible to marketers and non-marketers alike. From that foundation, we break down how brand shows up in real buying situations, how it influences decision-making through different memory systems, and how it can be measured through awareness, salience, distinctiveness, and risk.
In Part 1, we discuss:
What is happening in the mind during a purchase decisionThe role of working memory in evaluation vs long-term memory in reducing riskWhy most brand interactions never make it past sensory filteringThe relationship between brand building (long-term memory) and activation (working memory)Sensory, working, and long-term memory, and how each shapes brand outcomesThe commercial implications of brand: awareness, perception, and risk reductionBrand Distinctiveness vs Brand DifferentiationHow category entry points trigger brand recall in real-world situationsThe practical discussion of how brand heritage affects commercial outcomesWhy diagnostics are the foundation of any credible brand strategyThe difference between internal (team/founder) and market diagnostics, and why both matterWhy most definitions of brand are incomplete, and what is commonly missedA unifying definition of brand grounded in perception, memory, and behaviourThe ontology of brand: its tangible existenceHosted by Brand Strategist Jack Ferguson.
Where to find Jack:
- LinkedIn- Website
Where to find The Push:
- The Push on LinkedIn
- The Push on YouTube
- The Push on TikTok
- The Push on Instagram
- The Push Website
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Most revenue growth actually comes from rising demand, and brands that recognise early can move to service it.
In this episode, Jack Ferguson breaks down where marketers create the most value inside a business: identifying emerging demand and helping organisations innovate to meet it.
Drawing on Mats Georgson’s Demand Point Constellation Theory, and using examples from Uber, McDonald’s, Intuit, Swiffer, and others, Jack explains how marketers can uncover these demand points through real-world observation and customer insight.
This episode covers:
• What a Demand Point Constellation is and why it matters
• How Uber won with the Demand Point Constellation
• How McDonald’s discovered the real job of a milkshake
• How Intuit and P&G watched customer behaviour to drive product innovation
• Why marketers should think like demand detectors inside organisations
• Practical ways to uncover demand through social listening, ethnography, and customer conversationsHelpful Links:
Jobs to be Done Framework
Where to find Jack:
LinkedIn
Website
Where to find The Push:
LinkedIn
YouTube
Instagram
TikTok
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Buyers don’t experience brands as funnels. They encounter them mid-scroll, mid-conversation, mid-doubt, mid-purchase, to name a few examples. So why does marketing still plan as if people move predictably from awareness to purchase?
This episode's guest Jelena Veselinovic joins host Jack Ferguson to rally against this phenomenon while drawing on 25+ years of marketing experience, including 18 years at Coca-Cola and 3.5 years as Head of Brand Marketing at Miro.
Now operating as a fractional Head of Brand, she blends classical marketing science with a philosophical background to challenge the deterministic assumptions still embedded in boardrooms. If the world behaves probabilistically, effective marketing must evolve accordingly.
We cover:
How Honey’s overnight collapse is the best case study on brand promise riskWhy Costco removes marketing traps and caps marginsHow Coca-Cola institutionalised product as their brand coreHow Newtonian cause-and-effect thinking misreads buyer behaviourWhy marketing is better understood as shaping conditions rather than controlling behaviourHow brands lost narrative authority to reviews, creators, and AIWhy deterministic marketing is both disrespectful and ineffective How to build brands that thrive upon contact with realityHelpful Links:
- Determinism
- Quantum Mechanics
- The Quantum State of Branding Article
- Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam Video
Where to find Jack:
- LinkedIn
- Website
Where to find Jelena:
- Rewire Your Mind Substack
- LinkedIn
Where to find The Push:
- LinkedIn
- YouTube
- Instagram
- TikTok
- Website -
In this episode, Brand Strategist Jack Ferguson discusses sonic branding and the new opportunities that are emerging for marketers with AI.
Jack recently created a song for his own brand using AI which sparked a bigger conversation about sonic branding, accessibility, and audio ownership. Sound is one of the most underused brand assets available today and smaller brands have more access than ever.
Jack discusses:
- AI-generated music and the associated considerations for brands
- How AI can be used to make broader auditory assets
- Why hearing is one of the most stimulus-efficient channels humans have
- How audio is becoming more accessible for smaller brands
- Magnum’s ASMR strategy
- Why the opportunity is with hearing compared to the other “always-on” senses
- Many real-world brand examples and case studies
Jack’s Links:- LinkedIn Profile
- Jack’s Personal Website
The Push Links:
- Follow The Push on LinkedIn
- Find The Push on YouTube- Follow The Push on TikTok
- Follow The Push on Instagram
- Visit The Push Website
Resources Mentioned:
- Pizza Before The Hut
- Dominos Phrase
- Keno Jingle
- Microsoft Startup Sounds
- Magnum ASMR- Rivers Advertisements
- Toyota's Sonic Branding Guide
- AO, Let’s Go Jingle
- McDonald’s I’m Loving It Jingle
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In this episode, Brand Strategist Jack Ferguson hosts Strategic Growth Architect Mats Georgson, former Global Brand Director at Sony Ericsson, to discuss how brands achieve large, sustained growth and how most category-based thinking caps it.
Mats was the first marketer to work on Bluetooth, giving him deep, practical insight into rapid global adoption, and years later completed a research project analysing how 150 brands achieved disproportionate growth. Together, Jack and Mats explore why some brands defy gravity, while others struggle to break free of their category constraints.
Jack and Mats discuss:
- How brands grow via Demand Point Constellations
- How the iPhone leveraged demand points to grow
- Launching Bluetooth and the story behind its overwhelming success
- How Mats saw a client quickly jump 20% in revenue without advertising
- Uber’s Demand Point Constellation
- How to escape the gravitational pull of a category
- Why innovation is hard for marketers and what can be done about it
- Why few brands grow primarily through gaining market share
- The problem with comms and advertising being asked to do things they can’t do
- Why marketers need to think like detectivesHelpful Links:
Mats’ Demand Point Constellation Thesis
Links to Jack:Jack's LinkedIn Profile
Jack's Website
Links to Mats:
Mats’ LinkedIn Profile
Mats’ Website
Links to The Push:The Push LinkedIn Page
The Push on TikTokThe Push on Instagram
The Push on YouTube Music
The Push Website
Referenced in Episode:
Blue Ocean Strategy
Ehrenberg Bass Institute
Apple losing its App Store trademark caseCategory Entry Point
Jobs to be Done Framework -
In this episode, Jack Ferguson hosts Leigh Anne Cappello, former VP of Marketing for Play-Doh and one of the leaders during its 50th anniversary period, to discuss how scent, memory, and brand DNA combined to create one of the most recognisable brands.
From the Play-Doh perfume release to prescience calendars to the penetration of the brand's scent, this episode is an exploration of what it takes for a brand to stick.
In this episode Leigh Anne discusses:
Why the Play-Doh perfume product was createdThe considerations that went into Play-Dohs 50th AnniversaryThe numbers behind Play Doh’s distinctive smell penetrationA product that didn’t have the desired commercial impact because Brand DNA wasn't consideredHow marketers can use prescience calendars for stronger cultural relevance Moments of failure are often the strongest opportunities to build lasting customer relationships. Design Thinking and its benefits to marketersHow Play Doh started off as an accidental innovationHow to utilise Brand DNA and Brand Essence to improve commercial outcomesHow large organisations can create safe spaces for real innovation (without betting the company)Why prototyping, learning in public, and “getting it wrong” often leads to better brand outcomesHer unique business model and why she operates that wayLinks to Leigh Anne and Jack:
- Leigh Anne's Blog
- Leigh Anne's LinkedIn Profile
- Jack's LinkedIn Profile
- Jack's Website
Links to The Push:
- LinkedIn Page
- Website
- YouTube Page
- Instagram Page
- TikTok Page
Referenced in this Episode:
- Brand Sense by Martin Lindstrom
- Watts Wacker
- Georgina Melone
- Gary Serby
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This episode explores disproportionate leverage and how it shows up when immersion is treated as critical brand building work, not a nice-to-have.
Rather than chasing deliverables or premature answers, your hosts examine immersion as a diagnostic imperative, the strength required to defend it, and the consequences of bypassing it.This episode is co-hosted by Brand Strategist Jack Ferguson and Brand Identity Designer Tutai Marongere.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
Why Tutai deliberately told a client the work would take “as long as it takes”
How Tutai did three months of immersion without producing a single output, but then created an output that ended all debate instantly
How Jack sees immersion as a way of articulating the unsaid
How Tutai believes dreaming about a brand became his signal that the work was finally ready to be done
How Tutai sketched a concept on a fogged-up shower screen as the result of immersion, not inspiration
How Jack uses recorded customer interviews to reveal truths that transcripts and summaries consistently miss
Why both Tutai and Jack believe that “when you know, you know” is a real diagnostic threshold, not a creative cliché
Why both Tutai and Jack believe the brand work that lasts is always found in the detailsHelpful Links:
- Find Jack on LinkedIn here
- Find Tutai on LinkedIn here
- Visit Jack’s personal website here- Follow The Push on LinkedIn here
- Follow The Push on YouTube here
- Follow The Push on TikTok here
- Follow The Push on Instagram here- Visit The Push website here
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Christmas is often thought of as a seasonal moment.
In reality, it’s one of the strongest examples of brand heritage and cultural embedding ever built.
This episode analyses Christmas as a brand system. It examines how it formed, how it survived bans, wars, secularisation, and media fragmentation, and why its relevance continues to compound without central ownership, governance, or constant persuasion.
For senior marketers, this offers an opportunity to examine endurance at the system level and understand how meaning persists when channels change, attention fragments, and authority disappears.
This episode breaks down the ritualistic architecture underneath Christmas. It explores the structures that organise behaviour, repetition, and memory over time. More importantly, it shows why brands do not need to invent architecture of this magnitude themselves. They can identify, attach to, and strengthen existing cultural architectures to gain leverage, relevance, and resilience without relying on perpetual novelty or escalating spend.
This episode was hosted by Brand Strategist Jack Ferguson.In this episode, Jack discusses:
A clearer way to think about brand heritage as a system, not a story or origin mythHow Coca-Cola strengthened Christmas’ ritualistic architecture for sustained commercial advantageHow changing rituals in the West create new points of cultural leverage for brandsThe language and structure that recognises and explains cultural embeddingRitualistic architecture and how it creates repetition, memory, and defence over timeHow brands can attach to existing cultural systems rather than manufacturing meaning from scratchIdentifying where your brand could embed, even without scale, ownership, or permissionHelpful Links:
- Find Jack on LinkedIn here- Follow The Push on LinkedIn here
- Follow The Push on YouTube here
- Follow The Push on TikTok here
- Follow The Push on Instagram here
- Visit The Push website here
- Visit Jack’s personal website here
References:
https://www.marketingweek.com/mcdonalds-bigger-than-jesus-christ/
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/consumer/explore/brand/Coca_Cola
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
Saturnalia
Sol Invictus
Kalends of January
Feast of Fools
Feast of the Ass
Washington Irving
Charles Dickens
Coca-Cola AI Christmas Ad
Haddon Sundblom
The Party Barrel Origin Story for KFC -
Most brands try to eliminate waste.
This episode explains how this approach is limiting.
We break down Positive Wastage, how it shows up in practice, and why it repeatedly drives brand growth, marketing outcomes, and long-term relationships, even when not intentionally planned for.
Your co-hosts are:
- Brand Strategist - Jack Ferguson.
- Brand Identity Designer - Tutai Marongere.In this episode:
Jack shares how positive wastage shows up when you build things without forcing outcomes including meetups that weren’t profitable, and being truly social on social media.Tutai shares how attending a rain-soaked business event trying to sell logos led to a complete reframe on his entire business creating far greater value than the original goal.Jack shares how brand growth often comes from indirect exposure rather than being directly engaged with, using examples like Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater soundtracks, Play-Doh’s smell, and default system sounds to explain how salience is driven.Tutai shares how a two-minute human interaction on his first day at a job turned into years of client work and ultimately introduced him to Jack.Jack and Tutai discuss how being overly outcome-focused kills upside, and how openness and participation creates brand growth that cannot be planned but can be allowed for.Helpful Links:
- Find Jack on LinkedIn here
- Find Tutai on LinkedIn here
- Visit Jack’s personal website here- Follow The Push on LinkedIn here
- Find The Push on YouTube here- Follow The Push on TikTok here
- Follow The Push on Instagram here
- Visit The Push website here
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Building your own personal brand as a marketer matters more than ever. It helps you stay respected, protect your career options, and operate with more authority in workplaces that often default to tactics over strategy.
In this episode, brand strategist Jack Ferguson breaks down how to build a personal profile that strengthens your positioning in the job market.
Jack shares:• The meeting where he’d finally had enough: The moment his internal positioning collapsed and why it pushed him to build his own brand as a marketer.
• How marketing differs from finance, ops and accounting: Closed systems vs open systems, and why marketers navigate entropy, culture shifts and demand cycles instead of neat levers.
• How to shut down “does this tactic work?” questions: Reframes that stop you accepting a frame that undermines your expertise.
• How to position yourself within a company: Building internal buy-in, establishing standards, and preventing others from treating you like an order-taker.
• How to job-proof your career: How to grow your profile and make your personal brand a market signal.
• How the informal job market works: Why 70–80% of roles never hit Seek or LinkedIn, why senior roles are usually filled long before they’re advertised, and what this means for you.
• Why great marketers don’t apply for jobs: How to build yourself into someone who gets the tap on the shoulder.
Helpful Links:
- Find Jack on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackfergusonmymm- Follow The Push on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thepush
- Follow The Push on TikTok here: thepushmedialab (@thepushmedialab) | TikTok- Follow The Push on Instagram here: Instagram
- Visit The Push website here: For Senior Marketers...By Senior Marketers | The Push
- Visit Jack’s personal website here: Brand Strategist + Marketing Consultant — Jack Ferguson
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In this episode, host Jack Ferguson breaks down the real drivers of revenue growth by going back to first principles. No tactics worship, just the underlying forces that move product.
He talks about:
- How 28 retail launches helped him isolate the true impact of tactics
- You can grow revenue and still lose market share, and why many brands mistake this for promotional success.
- The danger of trying to compensate for weak demand with better creative or more advertising.
- What marketers should obsess over first, and why understanding category growth is upstream of every promotional conversation.About Your Host:
Jack Ferguson is an evidence-based brand strategist with 15 years experience in marketing across 25 industries.
Helpful Links:
Find Jack on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackfergusonmymm/Follow The Push on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thepushFollow The Push on TikTok here: thepushmedialab (@thepushmedialab) | TikTokFollow The Push on Instagram here: InstagramVisit The Push website here: For Senior Marketers...By Senior Marketers | The PushVisit Jack’s personal website here: Brand Strategist + Marketing Consultant — Jack Ferguson -
Two marketers who never planned to be marketers break down exactly how they fell into the industry. One came through science. One came through life coaching. Both arrived here by accident.
How and why Jack lost money on his very first client
Jack Ferguson and Ben Reeves are this episode's co-hosts.
Listen in to hear:
How a podcaster launched Ben’s marketing career
How different Jack found the automatic respect given to marketer's vs those with a scientific background
The story behind Ben’s first client and why that business never scaled
The moment Jack realised he was a marketer before he understood what it was
How Ben ended up in marketing despite having no career plan to do so
The challenges Jack faced shifting from scientific, evidence-based thinking to an opinion driven industry
Why Ben walked away from hospitality to try life coaching before becoming a marketer
How scientific thinking still shapes Jack’s brand strategy work today
How a decade across agencies, tech and brand has shaped Ben’s entire marketing worldviewThis episode pulls back the curtain on how Ben and Jack both got started in marketing.
About your co-hosts:
Jack Ferguson is an evidence-based brand strategist
Ben Reeves is an experienced ecommerce strategistHelpful Links:
Find Jack on LinkedIn here: Jack Ferguson | LinkedIn
Find Ben on LinkedIn here: Ben Reeves | LinkedIn
Follow The Push on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thepush
Follow The Push on TikTok here: thepushmedialab (@thepushmedialab) | TikTok
Follow The Push on Instagram here: Instagram
Visit The Push website here: https://bethepush.com/
Visit Jack’s personal website here: https://jackferguson.co/
Visit Ben’s website here: https://benreeves.co/
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Every marketer has questioned whether this career’s really for them; especially after getting blamed, burning out, or being abandoned when times get tough.
Chanel Clark joins Jack Ferguson and shares stories of being pushed out, made redundant on day one of lockdown, and writing $8 ad copy to survive, before turning it all into The Marketing Club, a 12,000+ strong community that’s kept countless marketers in the game.
In this episode:
- Jack talks about why marketing becomes the easiest function to blame, and how to stay credible when the business turns on you.
- Chanel talks about the moment she was told she didn’t belong, and how that early rejection became the fuel for everything that followed.
- Chanel talks about the humbling months writing $8 ads and risky cold emails that led to her next big break.
- Chanel talks about rebuilding confidence after getting pushed out of roles despite strong performance.
- Jack talks about how “it’s marketing’s fault” becomes corporate code for “we don’t understand our business.”
- Jack and Chanel talk about belonging, rejection, and why the marketers who stay are the ones who’ll reshape the profession.
If you’ve ever thought “maybe marketing isn’t for me,” this one will hit home.
Co-Hosted by
Brand Strategist Jack Ferguson
And
Founder of The Marketing Club and Independent Consultant Chanel Clark
Helpful Links:Find Jack on LinkedIn here: Jack Ferguson | LinkedIn
Find Chanel on LinkedIn here: Chanel Clark | LinkedIn
Follow The Push on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thepush
Follow The Push on YouTube here: The Push - YouTube
Follow The Push on TikTok here: thepushmedialab (@thepushmedialab) | TikTok
Follow The Push on Instagram here: Instagram
Visit The Push website here: https://bethepush.com/
Visit Jack’s personal website here: https://jackferguson.co/
Visit Chanel’s website here: Chanel Clark - Marketing Consultant
Visit The Marketing Club’s website here: The Marketing Club
Follow The Marketing Club on Instagram: Instagram
Follow The Marketing Club on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-marketing-club-au-nz -
Every brand wants to stand out, but few are willing to break the rules to do it.
In this episode, Jack dives into the world of rogue brand building, the unconventional, often scrappy ideas that make brands unforgettable.
He explores how some of the world’s most unconventional brand strategies broke through.
He covers:
• Bumble’s guerrilla campus campaign that turned curiosity into growth
• Red Bull’s early illusions of popularity and how they seeded salience
• Jeep’s illegal-looking parking stunts that embodied its “go anywhere” positioning
And most importantly, how thinking beyond media habits and into your customer’s actual life can make your brand feel inevitable.
Helpful Links:
Find Jack on LinkedIn Here: Jack Ferguson | LinkedIn
Find Jack's Website Here: Evidence-Based Brand Strategy & Marketing Consulting | Jack Ferguson
Visit The Push Website Here: For Senior Marketers...By Senior Marketers | The Push
Find The Push on LinkedIn Here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thepush
Find The Push on YouTube Here: The Push - YouTube
Find The Push on TikTok Here: TikTok - Make Your Day
Find The Push on Instagram Here: https://www.instagram.com/bethepush
- https://brogan.com/blog/guerrilla-marketing-example-5-jeep-outdoor-parking/
- Red Bull Out of the Box Marketing
- Bumble Early Days Brand Building
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Every marketer has lived through a project that started smoothly and ended sideways.
In this episode, co-hosts Jack Ferguson and Ben Reeves discuss scope creep. They share war stories, practical scoping habits, and mindsets that keep you sane when a client says, “Can we just add one more thing?”
If you deal with unclear briefs, have underquoted projects before, or work with clients who expect magical turnarounds, this one’s for you.
On this episode:
Jack shares how instant quotes backfire when clients haven’t done discoveryBen shares a story of a national retailer who cut retainers from 100 hours to 30, and what broke firstHow Ben dealt with a client who ignored hours, then blamed outputJack shares a story of a prospect who wanted a full brand refresh price “on the spot”Why marketers should document everything, even internal emails and sign-offsHow to protect your boundaries without sounding defensiveAnd
Why sometimes letting a client learn the hard way is the most strategic move you can makeYour co-hosts:
- Jack Ferguson is an evidence based brand strategist
- Ben Reeves is an experienced ecommerce strategistHelpful Links:
Find Jack on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackfergusonmymm/
Find Ben on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benreevesco/
Follow The Push on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thepush
Follow The Push on TikTok here: thepushmedialab (@thepushmedialab) | TikTok
Follow The Push on Instagram here: Instagram
Visit The Push website here: For Senior Marketers...By Senior Marketers | The Push
Visit Jack’s personal website here: Evidence-Based Brand Strategy & Marketing Consulting | Jack Ferguson
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