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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 ...
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 swings, the company becomes a passenger. The job is to be the driver. “Stay high with the lows and stay low with the highs” is ...
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 fund Customer Success like a help desk or outright ignore it altogether, misguided by the confidence that their product alone will win retention, and wonder ...
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 long, the whiteboard is overflowing with add-ons, enhancements, and “what ifs.” The energy feels electric. But if every idea is pursued without pause, that energy ...
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 once and bounce back from, but the slow, grinding kind that wears you down until you finally notice you’re exhausted. I realized I had subscribed ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Why Repeat Customers Are the Backbone of Business Survival
Many small business growth strategies include the dangerous assumption that success comes from acquiring more customers. However, customer acquisition without customer ...
The Power of Sequenced Campaigns in Sustainable Growth
Effective marketing requires strategic campaign sequencing to guide prospects methodically through each stage of their buying journey. Random, disconnected marketing tactics ...
Why Shiny Object Syndrome Is Your Biggest Business Threat
Every entrepreneur knows the adrenaline rush of a new idea. The promise of opportunity is exciting, it feels innovative, creative, and ...
How Great Brands Tell the Same Story in Ten Different Places
If your brand’s story changes depending on where people find you, you're not telling a story. You're improvising. In a world ...