Invisible in the Marketplace? How to Retarget Your Brand for Success

Orchestraight Team
February 19, 2026
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In today’s hyper competitive digital landscape, standing out with crystal clear brand positioning and authentic marketing is your secret weapon to crush competitors, attract loyal customers, and accelerate unstoppable growth.
Cory Hanscom, seasoned CMO and expert in brand architecture, reveals how modern businesses lose relevance when they fail to evolve their brand strategy to match shifting markets and buyer ambitions.
Drawing on over three decades of experience including leadership at 3M, Cory teaches solopreneurs and founders practical methods to diagnose brand drift, retarget smartly without losing valuable equity, and establish powerful, differentiated narratives that emotionally connect and command attention.
He explains how to narrow your focus on niche dominance, craft compelling value propositions, and avoid the content homogenization caused by unfiltered AI messaging. Cory shares tools to audit your brand’s precision, align your marketing to core business ambitions, and build authentic community engagement that drives real business outcomes.
Listeners will gain actionable insights into evolving their brands strategically, deploying targeted campaigns that resonate deeply, and confidently owning their market space.
Key Insights:
3:54 - Why On-Brand Marketing Fails
7:23 - Brand Targeting Self-Assessment
8:14 - The 8 Brand Positioning Roles
9:28 - You Can't Be Everything
11:40 - Strategy Before Tactics
13:59 - Commit to Your Business Model
18:12 - When to Retarget Your Brand
24:28 - AI's Marketing Sameness Problem
34:13 - Quality Over Quantity in Marketing
Connect With Cory: linkedin.com/in/coryhanscom
Brand Articulate: https://www.brandarticulate.com/
Follow Jake:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakestahl/
TikTok: @JakeTheMindMechanic
Podcast: https://thejakestahl.com/podcast/
Book: Own the Room: https://thejakestahl.com/books/
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