Archive of posts from April 2024

Daily Post #2334 • April 30 2024 • Experience

Wasted marketing investment

Most marketing ‘investment’ is wasted…

Daily Post #2333 • April 29 2024 • Experience

Marketing steak

The market stopped sweating the details.

Daily Post #2332 • April 28 2024 • Craft

Will AI replace creators?

If you believe what you read in the news,
You’d think AI will replace creators.

Daily Post #2331 • April 27 2024 • Experience

Parenting and Marketing

Good marketing and good parenting have a few things in common.

Daily Post #2330 • April 26 2024 • Momentum

Narrow channels

LinkedIn / X / etc. are ‘wide’ channels.

Daily Post #2329 • April 25 2024 • Momentum

Small channels

When everyone communicates on one shared channel (like Twitter),

Daily Post #2328 • April 24 2024 • Momentum

It’s a lie

It’s a lie.

Daily Post #2327 • April 23 2024 • Momentum

Do more of what works

Do more of what works.

Daily Post #2326 • April 22 2024 • Experience

Edutainment is not

Edutainment is not:

Daily Post #2325 • April 21 2024 • Craft

Go to the edges

The status quo wants developers writing JS, Rust and Go.
But there are plenty who want your Ruby, Swift and Python.

Daily Post #2324 • April 20 2024 • Experience

Those who know most

Those who have no expertise, do not know.

Daily Post #2323 • April 19 2024 • Momentum

The answer lies in truths

Do you have a 'system'?

Daily Post #2322 • April 18 2024 • Experience

Don’t break it

Go all in.

Daily Post #2321 • April 17 2024 • Craft

Be excellent

“Post 64 times a day”…

Daily Post #2320 • April 16 2024 • Momentum

Napkin strategies

Social strategy:

Daily Post #2319 • April 15 2024 • Craft

64 times a day

“Post 64 times a day”…

Daily Post #2318 • April 14 2024 • Momentum

Gardening and product design

After gardening all day…

Daily Post #2317 • April 13 2024 • Experience

Finding time for greatness

Yesterday’s newsletter issue generated a lot of positive responses.

Daily Post #2316 • April 12 2024 • Craft

So good they’ll deplatform

This week’s issue of The Productoon newsletter dug into how we don’t need to be limited by social media platforms and their algorithms.

Daily Post #2315 • April 11 2024 • Momentum

Content ABCs

3 ingredients of great content.
Which are you missing?

Daily Post #2314 • April 10 2024 • Craft

Driving and videos

What great videos & driving a car have in common:

Daily Post #2313 • April 09 2024 • Experience

Without Meta

Can you advertise without Meta?

Daily Post #2312 • April 08 2024 • Experience

The best ad ever made

Some say it’s the best ad ever made.
Why?

Daily Post #2311 • April 07 2024 • Narrative

Nothing is as it seems

It feels like a weekly occurence at this point.

Daily Post #2310 • April 06 2024 • Narrative

Illuminate, Don’t Dazzle

AI generated images impress at first sight.

Daily Post #2309 • April 05 2024 • Narrative

Forget the playbook

16 May 2023, when Clear announced thir app was returning…
The market was a totally different place.
We weren’t celebrating the leader.
We were cheering the underdog.
But why were were cheering?
After they’d vanished?

Daily Post #2308 • April 04 2024 • Craft

What your content says about you

Your content says more about you than you think.

Daily Post #2307 • April 03 2024 • Craft

Make friends + make lives better

Ignoring community = business on hard-mode.

Daily Post #2306 • April 02 2024 • Narrative

Invite us on the ride

Clear (a to-do list app) launched in 2012.
Debuted #1 ‘top grossing’ in the US App Store.

Daily Post #2305 • April 01 2024 • Momentum

Grow a Redwood

Not growing as fast as you’d like?

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