I used to think a good meeting was a long one. Then a board member asked why we'd spent two hours in a room to make one decision. It was not the right call. Here's what I changed since.
Why Your Product Listing Is Now Talking to a Machine, Not a Person
The first reader of your product listing is no longer a person. It is an AI system, parsing your page to decide whether your product deserves to be part of the answer it gives someone else. And that system reads completely differently from the way a human does.
The Customer Who Never Opens Your Page
There is a sale happening right now, somewhere, for a product you sell. The customer never visited your listing. They asked an AI assistant. Your product either made the shortlist or it did not.
The Secret to Keeping Your Customers Forever: Data-Driven Insights
Your customers are leaving clues everywhere. In their clicks, their returns, their silence. The brands that listen to that data do not just retain customers. They build relationships that last.
What Happens to Culture When Everyone Owns a Piece of It
Culture is not a document. It is the sum of thousands of small decisions people make when nobody is watching and nothing is forcing them to make the right one.
The Hire Who Reminded Me Why We Started Giving Equity
When we first started offering ESOPs, it was partly strategic. What happened next was not something I had planned for.
What Inventory Management Has to Do With Your Brand Reputation
Nobody thinks of inventory as a brand decision. And that is exactly why so many genuinely good brands are quietly damaging their own reputation through something that never makes it onto the marketing calendar.
The Amazon PPC Trap. Spending More and Selling Less.
"Our ads are performing great. We're losing money though." ACoS healthy. CTR healthy. Every chart green. The bank account, meanwhile, was having a completely different conversation.
The Brand Everyone Trusts Spends Less Than You Think
Page eleven. Two clients, same category, same price point. One had nearly double the ad budget. The smaller spender was outselling them.
The Three Conversations Every Growing Business Needs to Have Before It Is Ready
A founder I know spent eighteen months building toward a target that half his team did not even know existed. Not because he was secretive. Because he assumed everyone understood where they were going. He had said it in all hands. It was on the website. It was obvious, to him, in the way that... Continue Reading →