Effective Marketing on a Budget
The common shotgun style approach may actually hurt your business growth if you are working on a limited budget.
Death to “Corporate” Marketing
To effectively market, you need to catch people’s attention, not blend in with how all the other industry ads look.
Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid
Marketing Heads insist “it’s a numbers game” and standardize campaigns to reach more people, neutering creativity in the process.
Differentiated vs Distinctive
Becoming distinctive can actually be much easier and less expensive than the cost to differentiate…
Someone’s Head Has Got to Roll
Since Marketing Heads are evaluated on a short-term basis, they don’t have enough runway to see returns from investing in brand-building.
The Best Blog Post Ever Written
I drove past a place called “Best China Restaurant” hundreds of times and instinctively knew that this was not, in fact, the best out there.