Daily Lab: Before you can measure, you must make
Sometimes, we’ve got to create the information we want to measure.
Sometimes, we’ve got to create the information we want to measure.
The anxiety that comes with the uncertainty of marketing isn’t a requirement to do great work.
Because the job isn’t over when we’ve made the sale—a new job is just beginning.
We can’t just deliver on our promise—we have to overdeliver.
Overdeliver because you’ve made the tradeoffs they value most.
Find minds already changed, already needing the type of thing you sell.
To grow a sustainable business, though, marketing costs need to go down over time, not up.
Does that mean we accept less from or for ourselves? No, it means we find things we want to do.
If your marketing is struggling, unless you’re doing nothing, you’re probably doing too much.
It’s not enough to merely present ourselves to the market and tell them that we have what they need.
Which would you rather do? Increase your effort or your insight?
It takes more than selling to do great marketing.