Daily Lab: Contract into relevance
Don’t expand, focus.
Don’t expand, focus.
What to post on Threads or other networks.
One is more valuable than the other.
What makes you boring makes you special.
We should re-label most “best practices” as “classic mistakes.”
Before we get to the art or the science, we have to ask ourselves: What’s the value, and what’s the distance?
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.
If you do too much, you’ll never be able to effectively demonstrate it all.
Welcome to the background commentary and recommended reading for the “Always Know What to Say” mental model and the “Making Marketing Messages” framework exercise.
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.
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.