Method

Double Loop Marketing™

The surest way to get and keep attention is to be a thought leader in your marketspace — and your marketspace is the online ecosystem you compete in. The outer loop reads that ecosystem and places you in it. The inner loop measures what happens next and feeds it back into the work.

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The engagement

Five steps Sheet 02
01 Ecosystem analysis Determine your competitive position in the ecosystem you already sit inside.
02 Orchestration Decide who the customer is, which ecosystems you will compete in, and where and how to compete in them.
03 Attention platform Set the scope and boundaries of the platform, then build the products, services and experiences that fit it.
04 Conversion How the message gets out, and which mechanisms actually convert.
05 Value regeneration A durable business model, with the feedback loops that improve performance over time.
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Practices

Ecosystem strategy

Mapping and analytics establish where your audience already gathers, what it reads, and who it trusts. The output is a position: the ecosystems worth competing in and the influence available in each.

Thought leadership

A blueprint for your platform: what to publish, where it has to appear, and the conversion path from reader to customer. More than one in five Harvard Business Review bloggers is a client.

Brand activism

Businesses that promote the Common Good need a position their leadership will hold under pressure. We work with the CEO on that position and on carrying it to employees, customers, investors, analysts and the wider ecosystem.

Regeneration

Regeneration strategy for organisations, communities and places, drawing on the frameworks of the Regenerative Marketing Institute — co-founded with Philip Kotler and Enrico Foglia, and the subject of Regeneration: The Future of Community in a Permacrisis World.

The Institute defines regeneration as the renewal of the Common Good — taking a place, an organisation or a community from crisis toward recovery. It reads across nine domains:

Social Economics Nature Work Culture Media Law Technology Politics

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