Daily Lab: We do what we like
People tend to do things they like, and they tend not to do things they don’t like.
People tend to do things they like, and they tend not to do things they don’t like.
A quick exercise to hone your marketing focus on your most valuable actions and clients:
It’s a little silly to make such a basic point, but groups don’t really buy things—people do.
Welcome to the background commentary and recommended reading for the “Always Know What to Say” mental model and the “Making Marketing Messages” framework exercise.
Today, we’re going to combine a little bit of science with a little bit of art to help you figure out what to say when you’re asked what you do.
All the social media posts, paid ads, press releases, and website redesigns in the world won’t get you profitable customers if you’re not talking to the right person, about the right thing, in the right way, at the right time, in the right place.
For the past five and a half years we've been The Family Knife. But we've also been something else. It's something one of our favourite clients told us this summer: "You're not The Family Knife," she said, temporarily breaking our
The reason your marketing is struggling is not because you don’t know what to do. It’s not struggling because you don’t know what to say. It’s struggling because you hate it.
Marketing cannot save a company, nor can it make one.
As a business owner, your job isn’t to talk people into buying from you. You’re not trying to persuade. Instead, your job is to permit.
1. I provide very little documentation The strategy we’ll create together is ultimately yours, so formal documentation needs to be created on your end (with help and support) so that it doesn’t get rejected by your organization’s immune system. And I’m confident you know exactly what
Darwin said that he “followed a golden rule, namely, that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once.”