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Make What Matters
Impossible to Ignore

The Truth

The Graveyard of Businesses is Littered with Great Ideas Marketed Poorly

The world isn’t short on good ideas.  It’s buried in them.  The graveyard of business is full of great ideas marketed poorly.  They were smart.  Useful.  Honest.  But nobody felt them.

Somewhere along the way, the owners stopped seeing what made them special.  They got too close.  Too used to it.  They started talking about specs and features, numbers and tactics—the measurable stuff—and forgot the part that can’t be measured.

People don’t want your product.  They want what it does for them—and what it says about them.

A car gives both utility and meaning.  It moves you—and it tells the world who you are.  A computer, a shirt, a beer—they all do the same.  They make life work, and they make life mean something.

When a business forgets that, the story dies—and when the story dies, everything else follows.

The Work

I don’t invent magic.  I pull it back into view.

I go inside a business and strip away everything that’s dulling the signal—the noise, the jargon, the marketing autopilot—until what’s left is the thing that still makes it worth caring about.

Then I rebuild everything around that truth: the story, the look, the tone, the experience.

Because when the story is right, the business starts breathing again.  People stop tuning it out.  They start feeling it.

And when they feel it, they buy—not just the product, but the better version of themselves that comes with it.

Dane Shakespear in a suit sitting confidently in a chair.
Ok, sometimes I wear a suit.

The Framework

How it Works

Discover the Truth

Go beneath the surface.

What’s really happening?

What story are you telling—on purpose or by accident?

Find the Magic

Every business has a spark that started it.

Most just forgot where they left it.

We find it again.

Write the Story

We shape that truth into words people can feel.

Not clever. Not loud. Real.

The kind that sticks because it’s honest.

Align Everything

Every signal—visual, verbal, behavioral—has to hum the same note.

If it doesn’t match, it doesn’t belong. Everything communicates.

Fix What's Broken

Cut the friction.

Kill the noise.

Simplify until the truth stands on its own.

Rebuild the Presence

Now the business looks and sounds like what it actually is.

That’s when credibility turns into connection.

Show it Off

Tell the story to the world.

Not by shouting—but by being unmistakably clear.

Protect the Clarity

Meaning fades when it’s not protected.

We build systems and culture to keep it sharp,

so nobody ever forgets why it matters again.

The Story is the Signal. Meaning is the Magnet.
Clarity is what makes people move.

When a business remembers why it exists and tells that truth well, it stops begging for attention and starts earning it. That’s the real work. That’s what I do. That’s how you make what matters impossible to ignore.

“Most entrepreneurs are following best practices that bury the very thing that makes them great.”

Dane Shakespear

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