WE ARE—

A DATA DRIVEN PROCESS

We are a team of brand strategists who have developed a logical business process to determine a company’s competitive advantages and translate them into brand strategies and tactics that create market leaders.

“If you can’t describe what you’re doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.”

– W. Edwards Deming, the father of Statistical Quality Control

WE ARE …

Focused on growing SMBs

Small and Medium Sized Businesses have long been the lifeblood of the American economy. We are passionate about leveling the playing field by building the marketplace power and financial value of private enterprise brands.
Our process has created market leaders for a decade.
Our focus is on private enterprise from $1 million to $300 million.
We are collaborative but decisive. We will be direct about our process findings and recommendations.
If you are unwilling to enact change regardless of new data, it does not make sense to hire us.
If you believe your brand can be your most valuable intangible asset in the marketplace, we are a good fit.

Meet the BrandScan Team

Jeff Hedrich

Jeff Hedrich’s career has taken him from award-winning magazine journalist to political media consultant, to advertising agency creative and then to brand strategist and owner of a branding agency. His role in developing the Brand Scan Process is a natural extension of his desire to develop best practice methodologies to branding, and upgrade the power and value of private enterprise brands.

The through-line in Jeff ’s career is a capacity to cut through complexity — of a story, candidate, product or brand — and reveal and communicate singular, persuasive truths. Revealing and communicating what is most valuable about a brand has become Jeff’s focus since 2011, when he began the transformation of his firm from an advertising agency (Prodigal Media) into a branding agency, now known simply as Prodigal and based in Boardman, Ohio,

A blue-collar upbringing drives Jeff’s work ethic, three decades of relevant experience accelerate his ability to understand relevant aspects of a client’s business, and a belief that entrepreneurial companies are at the core of creating wealth and value for communities brings added purpose to his life’s work.

“It doesn’t matter what your customers think of you — only what they think of you relative to your competition.”

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