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Thoughts on creative strategy, design, and building momentum.

Rifò: The Brand That Changed How I See Recycled Fashion
Giorgia Bettio

Rifò: The Brand That Changed How I See Recycled Fashion

Since I discovered Rifò something shifted: I found myself paying attention and reading more and more about recycled and regenerated fashion. Before discovering ...

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Teaching Branding and Positioning
Giorgia Bettio

Teaching Branding and Positioning

Group workshops on product branding and positioning in collaboration with CNA Treviso for entrepeneurs and on personal branding for people seeking work.

Let's make a Rust WASM Starfield
Erick Fernandez

Let's make a Rust WASM Starfield

A small Macroquad experiment: a browser-based starfield written in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly.

A Reality Check on Audience Segmentation
Giorgia Bettio

A Reality Check on Audience Segmentation

The gap between the audience you want and the one you actually have.

Substance Over Noise: The Kind of Marketing I Want To Do.
Giorgia Bettio

Substance Over Noise: The Kind of Marketing I Want To Do.

A reflection on Florence, long-term thinking, and the kind of marketing work I want to do more of: helping serious companies build lasting value without chasing short-term attention.

The Most Unreal Strategy in Tech: Why Epic Games Built a Community Before It Built an Empire
Giorgia Bettio

The Most Unreal Strategy in Tech: Why Epic Games Built a Community Before It Built an Empire

Epic’s journey is a case study in the quiet power of choosing a different strategy: learning over leverage, sharing over secrecy, community over control.

The "No-Marketing" Marketing Strategy of Alpinestars
Giorgia Bettio

The "No-Marketing" Marketing Strategy of Alpinestars

One of the first things I learned when I first joined Alpinestars, was that they didn’t use the word “marketing”. “We’re not a marketing company; we’re a produc...

Business Good for the Soul #2. Fioreria Dario: How a Small Italian Flower Shop Redefined Connection
Giorgia Bettio

Business Good for the Soul #2. Fioreria Dario: How a Small Italian Flower Shop Redefined Connection

Some weeks ago, I wrote about a small YouTube channel called *The Girl with the Dogs*. Just a girl, a camera, and a few wet, nervous dogs, nothing more. And yet...

The best marketing advice you can get? “It depends.”
Giorgia Bettio

The best marketing advice you can get? “It depends.”

It might sound vague, even a little frustrating, but that’s usually a sign you’re talking to someone who’s actually thinking about your situation, not trying to...

5 Branding Mistakes I Keep Seeing, Even in Smart Companies
Giorgia Bettio

5 Branding Mistakes I Keep Seeing, Even in Smart Companies

After 10+ years working with clients on branding, I keep seeing the same mistakes no matter the company size or stage. Here are the ones that come up again and...

Branding Bridges
Giorgia Bettio

Branding Bridges

Branding is the most powerful tool you have,and most people don’t know they have it. Done right, branding creates bridges. Not just between you and your custo...

Branding doesn’t slow you down.
Giorgia Bettio

Branding doesn’t slow you down.

I keep seeing this assumption that positioning sits somewhere between sales and marketing, like both teams should shape it together. To me, that’s a mistake. ...

From “GM” to Real Connection: My Web3 Community Journey as a Marketer
Giorgia Bettio

From “GM” to Real Connection: My Web3 Community Journey as a Marketer

I just found a little treasure in a jacket I apparently hadn’t worn since 2021: **stickers from the Ben Mezrich NFT Project.** That project was my real jump in...

How much should a logo say?
Giorgia Bettio

How much should a logo say?

Over the years, I’ve had more than one client ask for a logo that communicates everything, sometimes even five or six different concepts at once. And while it’s...

Lead with the one thing that matters most
Giorgia Bettio

Lead with the one thing that matters most

If your resources are limited (time, budget, team) here’s one decision that can make your outreach much more effective: lead with the product, not the company. ...

Love it or hate it, Dubai is giving us a masterclass in branding...so what can you learn?
Giorgia Bettio

Love it or hate it, Dubai is giving us a masterclass in branding...so what can you learn?

In Dubai, they don’t build living units, they build branded neighbourhoods. Depending on who you are, who your tribe is, or who you aspire to be, there’s a dist...

People don’t have time for lists.
Giorgia Bettio

People don’t have time for lists.

If your brand has multiple differentiators, you might not actually have one. We all want to say everything that makes us great. But here’s a quick test: take e...

Simplicity is Clarity
Giorgia Bettio

Simplicity is Clarity

I’m a minimalist at my core, and here’s why you should be, too: If you can’t keep it simple, you can’t say it simple. If you can’t say it simple, you can’t ...

Why “The Coffice” Is (Almost) a Perfect Name
Giorgia Bettio

Why “The Coffice” Is (Almost) a Perfect Name

Just back from Cologne, where I finally met a partner I’ve been working with for the past three years. Until now, she has only been a face on my computer screen...