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...
Marketing Belongs at the Beginning, Not the End

Marketing Belongs at the Beginning, Not the End

A company decides to enter a new market, acquire a business, launch a product, or change its leadership. The strategy is agreed upon, the timeline is set, and then someone says, “We should probably bring marketing in.” Usually followed by: “We’ll need a press release...
Stop Treating Creativity Like Dessert

Stop Treating Creativity Like Dessert

Too often, creativity as a part of the solution is treated like dessert. A bonus. Something you sprinkle on once the real work is done. Not necessary.  This is not just an outdated mindset but a risky one.  In a deficit economy where differentiation is...
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...