Data needs help reading the room

Data needs help reading the room

I left the recent  Boston Product Management Association (BPMA) and Lokalise event thinking about Data from Star Trek. An extraordinarily capable android, curious about people, still working to understand the subtleties of human life. Humor. Social cues. The distance...
Connecting Past the Touchpoint

Connecting Past the Touchpoint

Helping buyers carry product value into the conversations that determine a decision is what your business depends on.  Your buyer needs to explain this to someone else. Why are you making it so hard for them? They understand the product. They can see where it fits....
Stop Asking Your Messaging to Predict the Future

Stop Asking Your Messaging to Predict the Future

You don’t need to know exactly what your business will become to give people a reason to believe in it. You do need to decide what you’re building toward, and which parts of that conviction can survive a change of plans. “I don’t want to go public with a message we...
Agnostic Traffic is the New Domain Authority

Agnostic Traffic is the New Domain Authority

Yesterday’s antitrust ruling against Google could be the starting gun for a new era in digital marketing. For years, we’ve been conditioned to think in a binary: organic traffic versus paid traffic. We need to move beyond the narrow obsession with the channels...