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StrategyJuly 28, 20263 min

Redirection over reinvestment

Before you fund another channel, find the message that's already working — and aim it.

Reinvestment is the default growth move: put more money behind the plan. Redirection is the harder, cheaper one: find what's already earning attention and point it at the right target.

Almost every company is already saying something that works. A line in a sales deck that makes prospects lean in. A paragraph on an About page that gets quoted back to you. A single case a customer keeps referencing. That signal is usually buried under everything else the company also says — competing for the same attention it should be concentrating.

Redirection is the discipline of finding that signal and making it the center of gravity. You're not creating a new message; you're promoting one you already own and demoting the noise around it. It costs less because the raw material already exists and already has evidence behind it.

This is why we lead with redirection. Reinvestment assumes the story is right and the volume is wrong. More often, the volume is fine and the aim is off — and a small change in direction moves more than a large change in spend.

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