“Be an outlier. Play a game no one else is playing.” With success in developing both corporate marketing and political campaigns, Phillips Stutts knows how to win big. As founder of Win BIG Media and Go BIG Media he helps clients across the board do just that. Recently, he’s trained his focus on fighting his own rare, incurable disease. We talked about overcoming obstacles, innovating, and winning this week on the On Brand podcast.

About Phillip Stutts

Phillip Stutts is fighting a rare, incurable disease. Diagnosed in 2012 with the esophageal disease, Achalasia, he spent five years ignoring it. Frankly, he put his head in the sand, taking medications that did more harm than good, and waiting for the inevitable. Then he woke up and said no more. His mission today is to find a cure and pursue a life of constant growth and giving. And he’s making progress.

Phillip is also the author of Fire Them Now: The 7 Lies Digital Marketers Sell…, an Amazon bestseller, and one of the masterminds behind the curtain of political marketing. With more than 20 years of political and marketing experience, Stutts has worked with multiple Fortune 200 companies, has over two decades of experience working on campaigns with billions of dollars in political ad spend, and contributed to over 1,200 election victories, including hundreds of U.S. House campaigns, dozens of U.S. Senate campaigns, and even three U.S. Presidential victories.

He is the founder and executive chairman of Go BIG Media (a political media firm) and the founder and CEO of Win BIG Media (a corporate marketing agency). Together, these companies have won more than 41 national awards for marketing and creative content.

Episode Highlights

“We’re competing using the most-winning formula in the world.” With success across the domains of corporate marketing and politics, Phillip shared the five-step formula his companies Win BIG Media and Go BIG Media use:

Customer research — “You have to have a deep dark understanding of your customers. It’s not just the Google Analytics.”
Find alignment — “Data drives everything. Tell me why you want to run for office and why you want to win? Then find what the audience wants and look for alignment.”
Build the brand — “It’s all about the brand.” But be careful. “Is it what you want or what the customer wants?”
A/B test — “Not guessing. Use this to find your positive and negative advertising. Or, as we call it, ‘comparatising.’”
Launch — “Finally, based on what works, launch a full-force campaign.”

What brand has made Phillip smile recently? To succeed today, Phillip says you have to, “Be an outlier. Play a game no one else is playing.” That’s why the brand he chose that made him smile was Arby’s with their new “Megetable”—a vegetable made of meat! More on Arby’s “Megetable” and being an outlier. Phillip wrote about these topics recently in a piece on Medium. To learn more, go to PhillipStutts.com.

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