Daily Lab: Don’t buy the best practice
Or: “The best is bad, actually.”
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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.
Daily Lab: Make your words count
The magic’s not in writing paragraph after paragraph and attempting to capture every element all at once.
Daily Lab: This is all strategy is
Strategy is simply the structure to work efficiently to get what you want.
Daily Lab: Focus exercise
A quick exercise to hone your marketing focus on your most valuable actions and clients:
Daily Lab: Do less, demonstrate more
If you do too much, you’ll never be able to effectively demonstrate it all.
Daily Lab: Progress breeds patience
Marketing is a lot easier, a lot more fun, and a lot less stressful when you’re patient.
Commentary: Always Know What to Say
Welcome to the background commentary and recommended reading for the “Always Know What to Say” mental model and the “Making Marketing Messages” framework exercise.
Money-Making Marketing in 5 Steps
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.
What’s your bicycle of the mind?
Marketing cannot save a company, nor can it make one.
Spinning Your Marketing Wheels
You know the expression: “All roads lead to Rome.” There are lots of ways to get to the same place. It applies to marketing. There are a lot of ways to do marketing, and an awful lot of them will work.
"You'll get eaten alive."
In 1916, the Saturday Evening Post published “Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Business Man” by Robert Updegraff. In the story, the titular Adams becomes a sought-after consultant to business leaders who know they've been blinded by their own narrow perspective.
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