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Picking up a cereal brand you’ve never tried before can feel like a spontaneous decision — for many peop…
The channel consumers carry in their pockets deserves the strategic weight their purchasing behavior already grants it.
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Most Tesla owners probably aren’t flooring it at every light — and the car may be…
The shape of a vehicle determines its real-world performance far more than the numbers on a spec sheet suggest.
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The stack of misdelivered mail on an apartment lobby table might be one of the most expe…
Address hygiene remains one of the highest-ROI fixes in marketing, yet most organizations treat it as an afterthought.
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The most honest question a team can ask before running an experiment may be: are we actu…
A landing page test only produces insight when the hypothesis carries real risk of being wrong.
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Social ads and search ads aren’t really competing with each other — for many peopl…
Allocating budget by channel rather than by cognitive state guarantees that money flows to the wrong task.
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The loyalty card sitting at the back of someone’s wallet, half-stamped and forgott…
A CRM strategy built on reaction alone is a retention strategy that forfeits retention by default.
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The way a company treats its best existing customers isn’t always as strategic as…
Knowing what ABM means and building the organizational infrastructure to execute it are fundamentally different capabilities.
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Not every customer is worth saving, and that’s where the profit hides
Profit grows when companies stop rescuing every account and start investing selectively in high-potential relationships.
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When a brand emails you a birthday discount for a product you returned, it tends to say…
Personalization works when it begins with customer behavior analysis, and fails predictably when it does not.
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The companies that are quietly thriving with AI in their marketing tend to have somethin…
AI did not break account-based marketing; it revealed that the majority of programs labeled ABM were glorified batch-and-blast with better targeting…
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Google+ launched without ads, and that silence spoke louder than any campaign
Withholding the pitch can function as the most powerful pitch of all, if the underlying architecture supports extraction later.
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People don’t search the way businesses name things — and websites that ignore that…
Keywords are customer conversations happening in plain sight, and site architecture should be built from that dialogue outward.
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Caltech astronomers say a hidden planet may be quietly reshaping the outer Solar System…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. I've been to the Atacama Desert in Chile exactly once in 2022, an…
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Research suggests one overlooked part of the immune system may help explain why some peo…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. There's a pattern most of us have noticed, even if we've never pu…
Local Consequences
Research suggests AI may not take your job directly — but people who learn to use it wel…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Open any feed right now and someone is predicting which jobs arti…
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Research suggests you may not be bad at languages — you may just be trying to learn them…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. There is a story a lot of us tell about ourselves, and it goes li…