How do you compete with a startup doing the same thing as you?
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Also known as Cheaper / Better / Faster, you get to pick two. How do you compete with a startup doing the same thing as you? You study them. It’s called Marketing. That’s what Marketing actually is, too many think it means promotion or advertising. see: Is Advertising Marketing? The Best Marketing Advice to Give a Startup
- Published in Advertising, Featured, PR, Search, Startups
Why Businesses Neglect Advertising (and why you shouldn’t)
Monday, 07 January 2019
Why do people think they don’t need to spend money on advertisements? It’s a great question and as one first posed to me in the new year; it felt like a calling to answer it. Why don’t businesses readily advertise?? Strap it, I’m going to criticize us all. Two reasons The internet has led a
- Published in Advertising
The Fore Steps to a Startup’s Addressable Market
Tuesday, 12 December 2017
Here’s the thing, I suck at golf and as an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur, I can’t fathom making myself available for 5 hours to putt around a golf course. Yet, succeeding as a founder might be as commonplace as hitting a hole in one… very least, it’s fair to say you have to shoot par. Rest assured,
- Published in Analytics, Brand Marketing, Display Advertising, Insights / Research, Startups, Targeting
A Giant Conversation
Friday, 05 May 2017
Why the future is now – and the secrets that could be the key to getting your next big idea funded. Whether it’s VC, sponsorship or grant, I had a chance, with Epsilon’s John Immesoete, to break down the startup ecosystem as it relates to media and technology. We discuss ever-changing role of today’s CMO, and why
- Published in Advertising, Austin, Brand Marketing, Industry, Startups
The Vision For Austin
Wednesday, 08 March 2017
You know that licking of your lips and grasping at air that one does when trying to put in to words a dream. How you think through, as you’re talking with someone, something you just can’t quite simplify. What I’m thinking about is not a dream but a vision. Something magical is happening by way
- Published in Austin, Brand Marketing