Hi all,

This was a question I was faced with after I discovered the strip club customer acquisition strategy. More about that here

https://rookieceo.co/oh-theres-more-to-the-strip-club-story/

We conducted surveys with customers and prospects. People were aware of our reputation. But how much had it hurt the brand?

That was a more difficult question to get a candid response to. Prospects and customers seemed to answer differently depending on who they were talking to or what their agenda was. There was a lot of virtue signaling going on too.

So we decided to partially rebrand (no name change) with the tag line: UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

We changed marketing collateral, visited every customer in person and re-introduced out new team and we took out ads in industry publications.

I chose this path because I was unsure of how much, and what value to assign to the name of the company and I did not want to risk any collateral damage. Would I make the same choice again? I'm not sure. This is one of those judgement calls that for me still isn't clear cut.

Expect a lot of these in your leadership journey. What choice would you have made?

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