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Top of mind.
Bottom line.

We help B2B leaders deliver bottom-line  results from top-of-mind marketing.

Faisal Siddiqui

Chief Executive Officer

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We work in industries where deals take months to close, making it critical to stay top of mind. Yet brand has traditionally taken a back seat to demand generation and sales.

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case study

How Schneider Electric turned top of mind into bottom line

Our Schmoooth campaign proved that brand can shift perception and pipeline at the same time — delivering record results on both.

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What top of mind looks like

57%

found the campaign unlike anything else in the category

+12pt

increase in consideration and first choice

What bottom line delivers

+232%

increase in marketing qualified leads YoY

$22M

in revenue won 

*in market less than 6 months

“The best marketing I’ve seen in 10 years at Schneider”

Alliance Distribution Partner

The problem

You do ten things. You're known for two.

The market only knows a sliver of what you do, so you're not making it onto the shortlist. That perception gap costs revenue. We close it.

7/10 B2B deals go to brands already on a buyer’s day one shortlist. Which means if you’re not known early, you’re not chosen later.

Process

How we get you top of mind and keep you there

Drive coherence at scaleMost brand strategy dies in a PowerPoint. We build strategy your teams actually use, keeping thousands of assets focused on a few clear, distinctive ideas.

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Build memory, not just clicksMost buyers aren't in the market today. We create work that stands out and stays in their minds, so when they're ready to buy, you're already on the shortlist.

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Show up everywhereOne campaign won't change how the market sees you. We bring your brand to life across sales, product, leadership, and events, so every touchpoint reinforces the same story.

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“Working with CBC was a breath of fresh air. Schmoooth drove a 12-point increase in consideration and first choice, a 232% increase in marketing qualified leads, and $22M in revenue won — in less than six months.

Sarah Pires

VP, US Industrial Marketing

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“Creative Business Company has unique brand expertise that is very difficult to find. Their skills and approach result in exceptional quality work with the right amount of rigor and long-term focus.”

Sol Sender

Head of Brand Strategy & Governance

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“Most agencies take your business strategy and build a brand around it. Creative Business Co did something rarer — they handed it back stronger. Their work didn’t just define how we show up in market. It sharpened how we think about the business itself.”

Paul Stoddart

Chief Marketing Officer

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“For anyone cautiously considering brand, CBC are THE GUYS FOR YOU. Software developers are typically brand skeptical, but with logic, a lot of persistence, and their famous no B.S. approach, CBC managed to transform our leadership team from brand skeptics to brand advocates. I consider them essential partners helping power Callstack’s next phase of growth.”

Sławomir Kamiński

Head of Marketing

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“I’ve worked with a lot of third party vendors over the course of my career… NEVER has an external partner understood our business and our needs as well as Creative Business Company. The final output shows just how much pride they take in their work and their desire for us to be successful.”

Jeff Issner

Co-founder

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“Faisal worked with the global brand strategy team at Shell to develop a set of strategic equities that would serve as the foundation for the Shell brand globally. His approach was rigorous, analytical and thoughtful and ultimately this piece of work became known as the Shell way. A pleasure to work with.”

Sol Sender

Head of Brand Strategy & Governance

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“For anyone cautiously considering brand, CBC are THE GUYS FOR YOU. Software developers are typically brand skeptical, but with logic, a lot of persistence, and their famous no B.S. approach, CBC managed to transform our leadership team from brand skeptics to brand advocates. I consider them essential partners helping power Callstack’s next phase of growth.”

Sol Sender

Head of Brand Strategy & Governance

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“Creative Business Company has unique brand expertise that is very difficult to find. Their skills and approach result in exceptional quality work with the right amount of rigor and long-term focus.”

Sol Sender

Head of Brand Strategy & Governance

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“Hoopo is on a mission to re-imagine the charity space and Creative Business Company’s work is a game-changer in helping us make that happen. From the incisive brand strategy that helped us distill our key differentiator, to streamlining our portfolio of programs and offers, to the distinctive visual identity that helps us challenge the worn codes of the category, this wasn’t just a brand transformation but a business one. We have just launched the new brand and the response from our partners, donors and the community has been terrific.”

Sol Sender

Head of Brand Strategy & Governance

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“I’ve worked with a lot of third party vendors over the course of my career… NEVER has an external partner understood our business and our needs as well as Creative Business Company. The final output shows just how much pride they take in their work and their desire for us to be successful.”

Sol Sender

Head of Brand Strategy & Governance

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“Penny Appeal Canada is on a mission to change the shake up the Canadian charity space and Creative Business Company is critical to making that happen. They helped us re-think our go-to-market approach with rigorous evidence-based strategy and groundbreaking creative executions. A game-changer for our charity and trendsetter in the industry.”

Sol Sender

Head of Brand Strategy & Governance

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knowledge

Ideas your peers wish they’d said first

Every framework here comes from real engagements, tested against buying committees and commercial pressure. It's how we get clients top of mind long before a deal is on the table.

Why performance marketing won’t grow your brand

The rise of performance marketing has given us cheaper and more efficient ways to advertise, but has created very few big brands. Why?

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There are two types of CMO. Neither is enough.

One builds pipeline in their sleep and freezes at brand. The other crafts unforgettable campaigns and goes blank when the board asks about pipeline contribution. The best ones are both.

The moat AI can’t compress.

Every other SaaS advantage just got faster to copy. Brand is the one that still takes years to build — which is exactly why it still works.

We wrote the playbook

Day 1 or Die is our argument for why brand is the last defensible moat in enterprise B2B—and what to do about it. It is the philosophy behind everything you have just read.

Inside: the data behind the day one shortlist, the three shifts enterprise brands need to make, and the measurement framework to justify the investment.

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What do you want to be famous for?

In 30 minutes, we’ll show you how to turn your top-of-mind investments into bottom-line results. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll tell you. We take on a small number of clients at any given time.

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Top of mind.Bottom line.

How Schneider Electric turned top of mind into bottom line

You do ten things. You're known for two.

How we get you top of mind and keep you there

“Creative Business Company has unique brand expertise that is very difficult to find. Their skills and approach result in exceptional quality work with the right amount of rigor and long-term focus.”

Ideas your peers wish they’d said first

We wrote the playbook

Top of mind.
Bottom line.

Ideas your peers wish they’d said first