Business & Brand Strategy

Uncover New Opportunities. Align Your Team. Drive Strategic Growth.

At Rysing Tide, we help organizations define where they’re going—and build the strategy to get there. Our approach brings clarity to your structure, product focus, and brand messaging, enabling smarter decisions, stronger team alignment, and the ability to seize new market opportunities. Whether you’re scaling, repositioning, or navigating change, we guide you through a cohesive business and brand realignment—so your strategy is focused, your offerings are clear, and your brand connects with the right audience to drive meaningful results.

The Rysing Tide Business & Brand Integration Process

Proprietary. Proven. Built to Align and Accelerate.

Our proprietary Business & Brand Integration Process is a waterfall-style methodology designed to align business direction, product strategy, and brand communication in a single, sequenced framework. It doesn’t just bring clarity—it creates momentum.

Each phase builds on the last, ensuring your goals, offerings, and messages are grounded in both what your business does best and what your target audience actually needs and responds to. We help you see what’s working, where opportunity exists, and how to align your internal resources and external messaging to support the growth ahead.

What We Deliver

Strategic Business Clarity

We start by identifying your growth goals, target outcomes, and potential blind spots. From there, we evaluate your current offerings and uncover emerging market opportunities—often identifying shifts in product focus that open the door to new growth. The result is a prioritized, actionable business strategy that’s responsive to the market and rooted in your core capabilities.

Audience-Informed Product & Brand Strategy

Our strategies are built around what your customers actually need—not just what you currently offer. We help refine your product positioning and craft messaging that resonates with your audience’s motivations, pain points, and decision-making patterns. This work bridges the gap between internal strategy and external perception—so what you say, sell, and stand for are all in sync.

Your Brand Playbook

All of this gets captured in a tailored brand playbook—a practical resource that aligns your leadership, marketing, and customer-facing teams. It includes strategic guidance, messaging frameworks, and positioning language your whole team can use with consistency and confidence.

 
SIMPLY WOWED, and what a huge, positive, and profound impact Ryan Hodgson has been for my creative marketing agency, Vivid Candi, but even more just to me as an entrepreneur and leader. He’s truly helped define “My Why” during this chapter in my life and once I figured that out, I have never seen my life jet rocket so positively and increase bandwidth more rapidly than now. I also am President & Chairman of a recently merged Malibu Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce, and Ryan’s expert advice has been a game changer, allowing me to scale at warp speed from a team of just a few to a team of nearly 100 in a matter of 8 months
— Chris Wizner, CEO & Founder, Vivid Candi