Archive of posts from January 2024

Daily Post #2244 • January 31 2024 • Craft

Lessons from 11

I built my first products at 11…

Daily Post #2243 • January 30 2024 • Experience

Closest is best

How to be bigger than attention:

Daily Post #2242 • January 29 2024 • Resilience

Influencers and used-car salesmen

Warning:

Daily Post #2241 • January 28 2024 • Momentum

What is consistency?

Consistency is…

Daily Post #2240 • January 27 2024 • Experience

Over-simplifying or Over-complicating

If you want social post engagement, engage with people who want to engage.

Daily Post #2239 • January 26 2024 • Experience

Marketing and bullies

I thought I was about to get my butt kicked.

Daily Post #2238 • January 25 2024 • Experience

Brand entitlement

Many brands feel entitled to market share.

Daily Post #2237 • January 24 2024 • Craft

Remember who you’re creating for

I made edutainment for >20 years.

Daily Post #2236 • January 23 2024 • Experience

Bold brand

I dare to be bold with your brand.

Daily Post #2235 • January 22 2024 • Momentum

Five steps to killer product marketing

Step 1: Spend time in your customers’ world daily.

Daily Post #2234 • January 21 2024 • Experience

Brand is like a bank

Your brand is like a bank account.

Daily Post #2233 • January 20 2024 • Experience

New marketing

Marketing’s evolved.

Daily Post #2232 • January 19 2024 • Momentum

One of two things

You’ll be rewarded for 1 of 2 things (choose wisely).

Daily Post #2231 • January 18 2024 • Momentum

Consistency

Y’know what’s hard… but unlocks everything?

Consistently writing.

Daily Post #2230 • January 17 2024 • Craft

What people think edutainment is

What people think edutainment is:

  • Take existing content
  • Add jokes and memes
  • Pat yourself on back

What edutainment actually is:

  • Deeply understand topic
  • Integrate with niche culture
  • Pat audience on back

Make their day and they’ll make yours.

Daily Post #2229 • January 16 2024 • Experience

Customer segmentation and asking

Great content marketing needs great cultural understanding.

Daily Post #2228 • January 15 2024 • Momentum

Choose wisely

You’ll be rewarded for 1 of 2 things (choose wisely):

Daily Post #2227 • January 14 2024 • Craft

Shokunin Kishitsu

You know what the market is desperate for?

Daily Post #2226 • January 13 2024 • Experience

Switch sides

Rather than “sales people” and “account managers”…

Daily Post #2225 • January 12 2024 • Momentum

Define perfect

Is the perfect pencil pristine and untouched, or half-length and gnawed from daily use?

Daily Post #2224 • January 11 2024 • Experience

Shokunin and Sushi

Jiro Ono teach you a LOT about marketing and brand.

He’s “the best sushi chef in the world.”

Daily Post #2223 • January 10 2024 • Momentum

Increasing signups

Y’know what increases your signups?

Daily Post #2222 • January 09 2024 • Craft

6 Business Lessons from Games

6 Business Lessons from Games (that apply to most businesses):

  1. Enjoy uncertainty, it’s the game.

  2. Encourage creativity, it’s how to win.

  3. Intrinsic > extrinsic motivations.

  4. Failure = learning, just don’t quit.

  5. Storytelling moves people.

  6. Gamify it and we’ll do anything.

Daily Post #2221 • January 08 2024 • Experience

Spot the opportunity

See if you can spot the opportunity…

(65% of businesses can’t):

  • 86% of businesses use video for marketing
  • 65% of those videos are just “presentations”
  • Edutainment market worth 10 Billion by 2025
  • 90% of customers discover products on YT
  • 88% of customers decided to buy on YT

My takeaways:

  • Everyone’s watching.
  • The bar is so low.
  • There’s no better time to build brand.
Daily Post #2220 • January 07 2024 • Experience

Money vs Brand

Money and Brand are opposites.

Daily Post #2219 • January 06 2024 • Experience

Why did the marketer cross the road?

“Why did the marketer cross the road?”

Daily Post #2218 • January 05 2024 • Experience

When content marketing plans change

When content marketing plans change, content strategy change can feel really, really chaotic.

Daily Post #2217 • January 04 2024 • Craft

Best practices are holding you back

Marketing best practices are holding you back.

Daily Post #2216 • January 03 2024 • Craft

Bad strategy

‘Create content’ is a bad strategy.

Daily Post #2215 • January 02 2024 • Craft

100 year plan

Big things take time.

Daily Post #2214 • January 01 2024 • Experience

Marketing is dating

Marketing is asking for a date.

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