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UNPOPULAR OPINIONS
ON MARKETING
Most marketing advice is comfortable, safe, and wrong.
This is where we say what we actually think.


Your Website Can Look Great and Still Say the Wrong Thing.
A website can be beautiful and still communicate the wrong thing. Good design is not about personal taste, trends or how many elements you can animate. It is about creating the right impression for the business. Every choice, from colour and typography to copy and structure, should be based on what the brand needs to say.
Jana Schilling
Aug 207 min read


If Your Brand Strategy Changes Nothing, It Is Not a Strategy.
A brand strategy is not a polished PDF that disappears into a folder. If it does not influence decisions, communication, design and internal behaviour, it is not doing its job. A useful brand strategy gives a company direction, helps people choose what fits and reject what does not, and turns abstract ideas into action.
Jana Schilling
Aug 206 min read


Without a Brand You're Toast.
A good product can win customers. Performance marketing can find more of them. For a while, that can look like a complete growth strategy. Then clicks become more expensive, competitors become more aggressive, and every sale requires another payment to a platform. The company discovers that it has built an efficient way to capture demand, but very little that creates demand in the first place. Brand is what makes people remember you before the ad appears, trust you before the
Fabian Menzel
Jul 238 min read


Your Competition Is Irrelevant.
Companies watch competitors because it feels like strategy. A rival launches something, management panics, and suddenly someone else’s roadmap becomes your priority list. Your competitors do not know the future. They are guessing too. The useful information is not in their campaign, their pricing page, or their latest press release. It is in the lives of the customers both of you are trying to serve. Know the competition. Understand the customer. Then choose your own way. Com
Fabian Menzel
Jul 237 min read
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