Writing

Marketing Doesn’t Have to Be a Dread: It Can Be a Meaningful Journey You Take People On

October 7, 2024
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Do you dread marketing? What if it could be a meaningful journey instead? Discover how understanding human nature can transform marketing from a necessary evil into a force for positive change. Read on to reframe your view of marketing.

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Front-Burner Problems are the Lifeblood of Your Business

October 4, 2024
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All of us in life have plenty to work with, to think about, and plenty of problems to solve. We are always prioritizing — often in…

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Using AI Chat to Turn Your Offer into Customer Dilemmas

October 3, 2024
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One of the biggest challenges that we all have, with our marketing hats on, is to switch our perspective from “expert” to “customer.” When we…

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Learning Easiness

October 2, 2024
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Niklas Luman was one of the most prolific social science writers of the Twentieth Century. He has become more well known lately because of inventing…

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My Basic Ideas In a Nutshell

July 13, 2021

At its core, my method is a means of harmonizing the needs of capitalism and the needs of human beings; of maximally harmonizing the requirements…

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Why did THIS popover work for me?

December 24, 2019

Given that I just wrote about how annoying it is to get email signup popovers earlier that day, it struck me as odd that this…

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Hey there pretty lady, whaddya talk about I call you sometime?

December 23, 2019

Some years ago, internet marketers decided it would be very clever start pushing large forms in people’s faces that ask them to sign up for…

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I can’t read the ant text of your email on my iPhone.

December 22, 2019

So much we are crafting our careful email on our full-size computer; we are then reviewing our careful email on the full-size computer; and 75%…

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Dubsado: The emotional moat can be the essential ingredient for a company

December 20, 2019

The makers of Drift published a great little book called This Won’t Scale. Play #8 in this was Build an Emotional Moat Around Your Brand.…

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Please don’t jiggle

December 19, 2019

Dear designer-marketer: You think you are being cute by just making the thing you want me to pay attention to… jiggle a little. I am…

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