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Quickly discover what’s stopping your brand showing up across multiple buying situations and staying

Quickly discover what’s stopping your brand showing up across multiple buying situations and staying top-of-mind.
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Mental availability assessments for brand growth

SmilingCFO helps brands grow by increasing Mental Availability in the buying situations that matter most.

We identify the Category Entry Points (CEPs) buyers use to enter the category and retrieve brands from memory then show you where to focus to improve recall, preference, and market share.

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What is Mental Availability?

The likelihood a brand comes to mind in a buying situation.

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What are Category Entry Points (CEPs)?

Cues (needs, occasions, problems, triggers) that prompt brand retrieval in buying situations.

A SmilingCFO ‘Mental Availability Growth Blueprint’
provides you with

Ranked CEP priorities (defend/expand/disrupt)

Memory advantages and white space opportunities

Brief-ready direction to sharpen brand strategy, communications, and investment priorities

Mental availability growth map

This graph is an example of the insight included in the Blueprint. It is used to diagnose whether a brand has narrow relevance, or the CEP breadth needed for frequent choice and therefore growth.

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Useful articles and frameworks for your brand.

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Mental availability metrics EXPLAINED

Mental market share, mental penetration & network size.

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MENTAL AVAILABILITY vs brand awareness

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Mental availability REVIEW

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