The DEW Test — Kelford Labs Daily
The test before the change.
The test before the change.
By making it a habit.
Writing prompts for marketing content.
New goals, new growth.
What I’ve learned from 300 daily newsletters.
Which would you rather do? Increase your effort or your insight?
Marketing efforts don’t fail. They stop. Like New Year’s Resolutions, our marketing efforts simply peter out and fade away over time.
Knowing what to say in our marketing is one of the most frustrating challenges business owners and marketers like you and I face every day.
The most important concept in strategy is commitment. Not a commitment to do the same thing forever. Not a stubborn resistance to change. But a commitment to truly give a direction your all.
Why do we put off marketing work we know we should be doing? The fact is, if we aren’t confident an action is going to create positive results, we won’t do it. We’ll procrastinate. We’ll avoid it. We’ll make excuses. It’s not because we’re lazy, it’s because we’re scared.
All of us can get caught in the trap of believing we can simply work our way out of trouble. Hustle culture has taught us that the answer to any given problem is to throw time and effort against it. But the truth is, if you’re going in the wrong direction, going faster doesn’t help.