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How People Become “Known” in the Online Space

How People Become Known in the Online Space

Every post, every piece of content, every video they share connects deeply with their audience because it’s genuine and relatable.   They openly share: What they’re working on right now How clueless they were when they first started The prejudices…

You can’t prompt your way to becoming an expert

You can't prompt your way to becoming an expert

AI really helps people who already know what they are doing. But for others, it has created the illusion that you can prompt your way to expertise.   Real expertise comes from understanding the deep underlying mechanisms, which we learn…

Email Marketing = Permission Marketing

Email Marketing is Permission Marketing

Email Marketing = Permission Marketing.   The term, coined by Seth Godin, means this: “Permission marketing is the privilege (not the right) of delivering anticipated, personal, and relevant messages to people who actually want to get them.”   Yet, many…

Healthy Food has a marketing problem

Healthy Food has a marketing problem

Healthy food has a marketing problem, and most companies are ignoring it.   Food brands keep obsessing over how to sell the most products, but that’s a downstream way of thinking.   The right question is: How do we get…

Small Experiments, Big Results

Small & Low Cost Experiments

Word of Mouth Marketing is the single most powerful marketing tool, after all.   Although you don’t have complete control over it, you can still run various small, low-cost experiments to help your customers spread the word about your company…

How to Design a Pricing Page That Converts

Basecamp Pricing

Learn to create pricing page like @basecamp     Plans are super clear—easy to spot differences Honest, no-BS descriptions help you pick fast Features in bullets = quick and painless reading Pricing upfront, no sneaky fees—Pro Unlimited is a flat…

What plays a huge role in marketing

What plays a huge role in marketing

“No money on advertising is not equivalent to no money on marketing.”   Product creation plays a huge role in marketing. Please don’t forget this fact.   The product is the leading side of marketing, not the doing side of…

Why do you need to be an upstream marketer?

Upstream Marketer

Heroism is revered worldwide, a phenomenon deeply rooted in mythology through to the present day. The need for a “Save The Day” hero, however, is a sign of something gone wrong, a sign of failure not success. It’s high time…

Create something worth talking about.

Create something worth talking about

This is a perfect example of fanocracy. Peter Askew (@searchbound), affectionately known as “Onion Guy” by his customers, received this response from an 88-year-old customer. “The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing it feels like magic to your fans. Fans…

Marketing is not something you do at the end

Marketing is not something you do at the end

Marketing is not something you do at the end. A great product is great marketing in itself. The product always plays a huge role—no one will buy an average-quality product just because it’s been advertised well.   In B2B, it’s…

Pain-Free Marketing Doesn’t Exist

Pain-Free Marketing Doesn’t Exist

As companies grow wealthier, they increase their marketing budgets. The most experienced marketers often resist trial and error because they feel obliged to spend the funds on running ads that show instant results to management. That’s how they stay relevant…

Observation is Key in Marketing

Observation is Key in Marketing

A salesperson selling hospital beds spent a day observing patients.   They quickly realized that simply understanding the hospital’s needs wasn’t enough.   They saw how nurses had to constantly help patients whenever something fell or a task was difficult.…

Ad Truth

Ad Truth

Nobody needs to love your ads as long as they increase sales. No strings attached.   “If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative. Awards are nice, but they do not pay the bills. I do not regard awards as an…

Marketing is Nonlinear

Marketing is Nonlinear

Marketing is nonlinear.   You don’t have to follow a strict sequence.   You already know why you started.   May be your personal frustration Complaints you heard from others Idea from nowhere to make it better Stay curious. Experiment…

Never Sugarcoat Anything

Never Sugarcoat Business

Never Sugarcoat Marketing Marketing is challenging and governed by complex underlying factors. Successful companies and influencers make it look easy, but it’s not. Every campaign, industry, and business is different. You won’t get the same results twice. Find the truth…

I want to buy a mattress

Casper Sell Sleep

Customer: I want to buy a mattress. Competitor 1: I sell mattresses.Competitor 2: I sell mattresses.Competitor 3: I sell mattresses.Competitor 4: I sell mattresses.Competitor 5: I sell mattresses.Competitor 6: How have you been sleeping this past week?   Now you…

Scarcity in Marketing

Scarcity in Marketing

There are two types of product scarcity commonly used to boost sales:   Scarcity based on quantity – for example, “Only two seats remaining at this price!” Scarcity based on time – for example, “Final day to purchase!” Be careful:…

The European Union has a marketing problem

The European Union has a marketing problem

The European Union has a marketing problem.   It continues to act as if nothing has changed, ignoring realities such as declining birthrates, poor customer service, entrepreneurs leaving the EU, Online entrepreneurs registering companies elsewhere, weak immigration policies, and interference…

Marketing is always out of syllabus.

Marketing is always out of syllabus

Marketing is always out of syllabus.   Charlie Munger once told this story:   In a rural Texas school, a teacher asked, “If there are nine sheep in a pen and one jumps out, how many are left?”   “Eight!”…

How to find a SaaS Idea

How to find a SaaS Idea

Great insights from @Pauline_Cx on how to find a SaaS idea?   → Read 1-star reviews of existing tools → List what sucks → Fix one   Congratulations, you now have a good business base. Most valuable innovations come from…

Customer Experience Rule: Stop Adding, Start Removing

In UX, less is usually more

Removing friction often matters more than adding features. Users get frustrated by anything that slows them down or makes a process complicated.   Your authentication page doesn’t need:   Email login Sign-up form OTP Something as simple as “Login with…

Marketing is a puzzle solved by the real world.

Marketing is a puzzle solved by the real world.

When Peter Askew tried building a business around VidaliaOnions.com, it wasn’t just luck that helped him. After a lot of effort, he teamed up with Aries Haygood, the owner of A&M Farms.   Gradually, he started selling onions online, and…

You Can’t Miss the Hit

You Can’t Miss the Hit

Are you even a marketer if you haven’t been punched by the market at least 50 times?   “Even if you think you can crack it, the truth will still land a few blows.” That’s okay and that’s natural.  …

The internet hasn’t made marketing easier

The internet hasn’t made marketing easier

The internet hasn’t made marketing easier just noisier. It’s like having more walls to throw spaghetti at to see what sticks.   Before the internet, figuring out what worked took a ton of time and money. Now, with AI, the…

There should be enough of a market

There should be enough of a market with a need

Pieter Levels @levelsio   One of the most important things I’ve ever read was this by @shl “The market you’re in will determine most of your growth”  It sounds basic but it’s not. You think how much you work on your…

Commodities Become Brands When You Tell the Story

Commodities Become Brands When You Tell the Story

Socks are a commodity, but @LittleMissMatch knew how to market standing out.   Mattresses are a commodity, but @Casper knew how to market better sleep.   @BYDCompany is a commodity, but they knew how to market affordability.   Water is…

The Value of an Outsider’s Eye

The Value of an Outsider’s Eye

From time to time, seek opinions from outsiders to gain a fresh perspective on how things really work.   Being too deeply involved in your business can create a veil you can’t remove.   Their objective view can reveal things…

Three Types of Marketer

Three Types of Marketer

Fragile Marketer: Who relies on social media followers, SEO, and getting Google sales rep advice to run Google Ads; ignoring customer service team advice, not bothering with inputs from product developers.    Robust Marketer: Mostly focusing on paid advertising (social…

Marketing is full of probabilities

Marketing is full of probabilities

Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge. — @nntaleb   You can’t be sure how it’s going to work out,…

Don’t become a commodity

Don’t become a commodity

Once you become a commodity, even a price increase of 50 cents will be perceived as expensive by customers.   Example: Supermarkets   Many staple goods, like basic groceries, are commoditized, so price sensitivity is very high. Customers quickly notice…

Status goes deeper than you think

Status is basically your perceived position in a social hierarchy how much respect, admiration, or influence people believe you have compared to others.   It can come from many sources:   Material: wealth, possessions, job title, home, cars. Social: who…

Don’t underestimate or overestimate marketing

Don't underestimate or overestimate marketing

Don’t underestimate or overestimate marketing.   Always give it the respect it deserves.   If you underestimate it, you’re going nowhere.    Many entrepreneurs still believe a great product alone will bring customers. But no matter how great you think…

Who is the real SEO Expert?

Who is the real SEO Expert

SEO Expert: This is how you can rank your website.Google: Everyone has a plan until they get hit by my algorithm.SEO Expert: Yep, I’m an ex-SEO now.   Google’s the real boss when it comes to SEO. They keep changing…

“Are You Really in the Game?”

“Are You Really in the Game”

Are you even a marketer if your campaign has never made any sales?Are you an investor if you’ve never lost money?Are you even an entrepreneur if you’ve never felt completely clueless?Are you even a salesperson if 100 messages have gone…

Anyone can do marketing

Anyone can do marketing

Anyone can do marketing, if they have   Brain — to think strategically and creatively. Common sense — to keep things practical and focused on real problems. Action — because ideas alone don’t move the needle. Patience — since results…

Tinkering goes a long way in marketing

Tinkering goes a long way in marketing

Marketing is the only profession where, even if you don’t know what you’re doing, simply tinkering with your product based on assumptions about your customers can still take you a long way.   Here’s what 21st Century greatest thinker says…

You will only find when the wind goes down

You will only find when the wind goes down - DigitalMarketingJobs.org

When the wind dies down, it’s easy to tell which is a bird and which is just paper. The same goes for marketing. Just because you’re getting sales doesn’t mean your product truly solves the customer’s problem. Sometimes, clever campaigns,…

Learning Marketing is a never ending process

Learning marketing is a never ending process - DigitalMarketingJobs.org

Marketing is one of those fields where, even after 20 years of experience, you might still not know exactly how to do it right.   That’s because marketing touches every part of the business from understanding your customer’s story to…

It’s never too late to learn marketing.

Its never too late to learn marketing

After getting hit by Google’s algorithm changes, many content creators and entrepreneurs have started relearning the basics of marketing.   Before the algorithm shifts, most didn’t prioritize email marketing — a risky move given how volatile the content business can…

Everything is straightforward until you know…

Real Learning - Digitalmarketingjobs.org

Selling is straightforward until no one replies. Marketing is straightforward until you don’t get any results. Copywriting is straightforward until no one reads your copy. SEO is straightforward until Google pulls the plug.   Real learning starts when you keep…

Marketing is a conjoined twin of innovation

Marketing and Innovation

Marketing isn’t something you do at the end—it’s woven into your entire story   The reason behind your innovation (your story) How you serve customers (customer service) How you shape their journey (customer experience) How you set your pricing (pricing…