A reflection from recent conversations in the tech community Over the past few weeks, nearly every industry event I’ve attended has had one consistent theme: AI. From panel discussions to hallway conversations, the topic keeps surfacing not just as a technology trend but as something already reshaping how organizations think about growth. What struck me […]
And What Better Decision Design Looks Like When go-to-market strategies fail, execution is usually the first thing blamed.The reality is less comfortable. Most GTM efforts break upstream, long before campaigns launch or sales teams engage. They break at the decision level. Decisions about where to focus, who to prioritize, and what to say are often […]
The Quiet Collapse of GTM You’ve got something real. The product’s strong. Feedback from early customers is solid. Sales is bringing in leads. The team is launching campaigns. On the surface, this should be working. But growth isn’t steady, it’s spiky. Some weeks the pipeline surges. Other weeks, nothing lands. Campaigns generate clicks, not decisions. […]
Last year, a founder in financial services told me, “We need to sound credible, but we can’t sound like everyone else.” They had invested in content. Their credentials were sharp. But their message felt like it could belong to any of their competitors. What they needed wasn’t more data. They needed a story. In regulated, […]
Think about the last time you searched for something. Did you scroll through three pages of Google results? Or did you glance at the snippet or ask ChatGPT for a summary? That simple shift in your own behaviour is the heart of why AEO and GEO matter. Discovery has moved from search results to instant […]
I’ll never forget one of my early executive conversations about market strategy. A fellow leader was eager to anchor our growth plans to the concept of Total Addressable Market (TAM). Slide after slide painted a picture of billions in opportunity if only we believed hard enough. But the reality was harder to admit: our product […]
Businesses often turn to marketing services first: blog posts, email campaigns and ad designs. These feel tangible and actionable. What’s often missing is a strategic framework. Without a guiding structure, even the best deliverables can fall short. The confusion is understandable, yet costly. Research from the Content Marketing Institute shows that 57% of marketers still […]
Most growing companies are investing in marketing, but too often, it’s all execution and no direction. Campaigns are running. Teams are producing. Agencies are delivering.But the message is off, the results are uneven, and no one is steering the ship. What’s missing isn’t effort. It’s marketing leadership. Why Founders Are Turning to Fractional CMOs If […]
Why I Started Wynn & Howe And Why Strategic Marketing Needs a Rethink Startups don’t usually stall because of bad products.They stall because no one knows how to talk about them. I started Wynn & Howe because I kept seeing the same pattern: brilliant founders with promising products, stuck in neutral. They had development teams, […]
Strategic Marketing for Visionaries Who Move Fast 3 WAYS TO JUMPSTART YOUR GO-TO-MARKET (Without Hiring a Full Marketing Team)Most startups and project teams hit a wall when it’s time to scale. The product is strong, but the story is unclear. The team is capable, but marketing execution is inconsistent. Hiring a full team is expensive […]
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