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How we think.
Written from work we have done rather than summaries of the internet. Short, direct and occasionally uncomfortable.
Things we’ve learned the expensive way
- More traffic doesn’t fix a bad offer.
- Brand problems often disguise themselves as media problems.
- A strategy nobody uses is decoration.
- Good AI disappears into the work.
- Sometimes the website isn’t the problem.
The longer versions
- Why most growth problems aren't actually advertising problems.When growth stalls, the first instinct is to change the ads. In our experience the ads are rarely the constraint. Here is where we actually look, and in what order.
- What we look at before increasing paid media spend.Scaling spend is easy. Scaling spend profitably is a checklist. This is ours, built from running media for consumer brands, a Fortune 500 retailer and a global manufacturer.
- When a company needs a fractional CMO instead of another agency.Agencies execute a scope. A fractional CMO decides the scope. Most companies that are on their third agency in two years were never missing an agency.
- How we approach a brand reinvention.Most rebrands are cosmetic resets on top of an unchanged strategy. Ours start by finding out what the business has become, and end when the market can tell what changed.
- How we approach launching something nobody has searched for yet.Search-driven playbooks assume demand already exists. When you are creating a category, the demand has to be built. Here is how we do it, learned from launching platforms of our own.
- How AI can connect a company's operations instead of becoming another disconnected tool.Most companies "doing AI" have bought a tool. The ones getting value have connected an operation. The difference is where the intelligence lives.
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