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Notes on marketing & PR

Practical thinking on full-funnel marketing, brand and communication, across a wide range of industries.

5 Jul 2026·6 min

How modern SEO actually works in 2026

SEO stopped being about keywords and backlinks a while ago. Here's what actually moves rankings now, and where most brands still waste their effort.

SEOContentStrategy
2 Jul 2026·6 min

Bizarre marketing that had no business working, and worked anyway

Some of the most effective campaigns broke every rule in the deck. A look at strategies that sounded insane in the meeting and printed money in the market.

CreativeStrategyBrand
30 Jun 2026·6 min

How modern PPC works: you feed the machine, it does the bidding

Automated bidding took the knobs out of your hands. That's not a loss of control, it's a shift in the job: your edge is now data, creative and offer, not manual bids.

PPCPerformancePaid media
26 Jun 2026·6 min

Deploying performance marketing without setting money on fire

Most performance budgets leak before the first ad even runs. A boring sequence beats a clever one: fix the funnel, prove the economics, then pour fuel.

PerformanceGrowthStrategy
24 Jun 2026·5 min

What a real communication strategy looks like

A communication strategy isn't a content calendar or a logo. It's a small set of decisions about who you're for, what you stand for, and what you'll say no to.

CommunicationPRBrand
20 Jun 2026·6 min

Full-funnel marketing: turning scattered tactics into one system

How to connect performance, brand, content and PR into one system that actually moves the metric, instead of burning budget on channels that never talk to each other.

StrategyMarketingBrand
10 Jun 2026·5 min

PR in a skeptical market: earning trust when every claim is doubted

Communication strategy for any market where every claim gets doubted, and how to turn that scrutiny into an advantage.

PRCommunicationReputation