Nov 11, 2025
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11 min read
Stop optimizing tactics for offers no one wants. Test your offer with conversations, landing pages, and pilot programs to get feedback fast.
Oct 28, 2025
12 min read
Your agency wins with big budgets and long timelines. You win with simple, profitable growth. Classic principal-agent problem. Here's what you do about it.
Oct 21, 2025
13 min read
Double down on what works, or take a chance on something new? That’s the explore-exploit tradeoff and you MUST understand it to be good at marketing.
Aug 19, 2025
10 min read
Your customer doesn’t have an 8-second attention span. They’re just overloaded. This post explains why that myth persists—and what marketers should do instead.
Aug 5, 2025
Great marketing means doing less, but better. Scope control is how you do that, and it means you need to get really good at saying no.
Jul 28, 2025
Marketing doesn’t mean lying, cheating, or deceiving. Find the right people and the right time and give them what they need. It’s matchmaking, not manipulation.
If you think you know where your career is headed, you’re probably wrong. Here's how my failing board game business morphed into a successful marketing agency.