Daily Lab: Brilliantly irrelevant
Simpler, not smarter.
Simpler, not smarter.
The price you pay for a strategy.
If you don’t know How, Why doesn’t matter.
Do the writing part last.
As little as possible, as long as possible.
By focusing on just one single thing.
The anxiety that comes with the uncertainty of marketing isn’t a requirement to do great work.
If your marketing is struggling, unless you’re doing nothing, you’re probably doing too much.
The magic’s not in writing paragraph after paragraph and attempting to capture every element all at once.
Strategy is simply the structure to work efficiently to get what you want.
That’s the only hard question.
Welcome to the background commentary and recommended reading for the “Always Know What to Say” mental model and the “Making Marketing Messages” framework exercise.