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🤌🏻 Bottom-Up Mentality
🧱 Building Brand Foundations
🥃 Creating Demand (Awareness)
🍾 Converting Demand (Hunting)
📦 Sustaining Demand (Farming)
🚚 Export, Distribution & RTM
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🧱 Building Brand Foundations

Why You Should Build Your Bottom-up Category Before Building Your Brand
Instead of Fishing In The Same Pond As All The Others
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Chris Maffeo
The Back Bar Cheat Sheet
How to Categorize Bottles in 4 Simple Types (Knowing How to Fill Gaps and Avoid Dusty Bottles on The Shelf)
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Chris Maffeo
Understanding the Real Problems Your Brand Can Solve
Instead of Inventing Solution in an Echo Chamber, to Problems That Don't Exist.
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Chris Maffeo
The King is dead-Long live the King Mindset
small, consistent habits to build your brand bottom-up
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Chris Maffeo
The Target Occasion Checklist
The Power of a Focused Drinks Strategy: The Biggest Mistake Brands Do, Trying to Appeal to Everyone (with Nobody Knowing What to Do with Your Bottle…
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Chris Maffeo
Nailing your Drink Strategy
Instead of copying trendy cocktails or creating a fancy one nobody wanna make
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Chris Maffeo
The "Sell-in Ring Road" Checklist
How to Adapt Your Messaging to "Traffic Conditions" (i.e. Competitors on Your Route) While Staying Consistent.
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Chris Maffeo
The Brand's Storytelling Big Bang Cheat-Sheet
The 6 Bottom-Up Steps Top Drinks Brands Get Right, Evolving their Storytelling (That Will Save You $100K in Useless Brand Assets)
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Chris Maffeo
The Sales Team Hiring Checklist: 4 Simple Steps to Choose The Right Person
Avoiding Having to Search Again in 3 Months' Time After Losing Important Customers
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Chris Maffeo
The Brand Training Blueprint: The 3 Steps to Deliver a Short and Value-Adding Training That People Will Remember
instead of the fluffy storytelling and tens of botanicals nobody care about
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Chris Maffeo
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