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One Clean Journey From “Contact Sales” to First Meeting
Most B2B “lead problems” are not lead problems. They are “we never got them to a meeting” problems. The ad did its job. The landing page did its job. A real person at a real company filled out “Book a demo,” “Talk to sales,” or “Get pricing.” ...
Customer Trust Is the New Currency, Here’s How to Earn It
Your customers expect to be tricked (unfortunately). They have seen bait pricing. They have fought to cancel. They have waited on hold while a chatbot loops them around in circles. Regulators are reacting, and headlines keep coming. In this climate, trust is not a motto. Trust ...
Launch Plans Ship Products. GTM Wins Markets
Confusing a launch plan with a GTM strategy is one of the fastest ways to stall growth. A launch plan gets the first version out the door. A GTM strategy is the system that guides how you choose customers, why you win, how you reach them ...
Monday’s AWS Ripple: Logins, Payments, and Lost Revenue
On Monday, October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services experienced a major incident centered in its US-EAST-1 region. The problem began in the early morning hours Eastern Time and manifested as DNS resolution trouble plus a fault tied to the internal health monitoring of network load balancers—arcane ...
Fire the Client
There is a certain kind of account that arrives wrapped in urgency and praise. They hire you because you are the expert, then argue with every recommendation. They promise payment, then fall behind and ask you to keep going because the work is too important to ...
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Stop Selling To “Everyone” And Start Selling To Someone Real
If you do not know who your product is for, it will not sell. The market is not cruel, it is just busy, and when your buyer is a blur it moves straight past what you ...
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Stay high with the lows and stay low with the highs.
Entrepreneurship rewards the steady hand. Results surge, then stall, then surge again. If your energy, decision quality, and communication track those ...
Most of Your Revenue Lives in Success, Not Sales.
Listen to your least happy customers or watch your revenue shrink... Many leadership teams claim to value their customers. Then they ...
The Double Lens of Innovation: Can vs. Should
Every marketing or product department knows the scene: a spark of an idea lights up the room, momentum builds, and before ...
Unfollowing 2,000 Pages Taught Me More About Marketing Than Any Playbook
I’ll be honest: I’m totally overwhelmed and burned out. I’ve hit a wall. Not the kind of wall you slam into ...
The “One-Page” Test Every Q4 Marketing Plan Must Pass
Every fall, as Q4 begins, companies confront one of the most crucial exercises of the year: preparing for action in Q1. ...
Traffic Down, Revenue Up: Winning with Zero-Click Conversion Strategies
Growth is getting harder. Customer acquisition costs are rising, paid channels are oversaturated, and the search landscape is being rewritten by ...
Your “Great Culture” Won’t Save You from Missed Deadlines
A short video recently popped into my social feed. It wasn’t a TED Talk or a thought leadership seminar — just ...
Startups Don’t Die from Competition, They Die from Within
It’s the age-old tale of man vs. himself. Only this time, he’s leading a startup, wearing Allbirds, quoting Naval, and hoarding ...
Why Tech Fluency Must Be a Core Leadership Skill
The days when executives could say, “I’m not a tech person,” are over. Technology is no longer just a department—it’s embedded ...
MVP vs. MLP: What Founders Get Wrong About Early Product Design
The MVP—Minimum Viable Product—has become gospel in startup circles. Build fast, test fast, fail fast. But in today’s crowded market, viability ...
Stop “Romanticizing” Chaos: Discipline Is the Real Founder Superpower
The startup myth goes like this: work 20-hour days, pivot constantly, chase the high of the new. That’s what makes a ...
Build a Leadership Team That Challenges You, Not Just Follows You (Without Chaos)
Most founders build their first leadership teams for speed, comfort, and alignment. Understandably, you’re strapped for time and need people who ...