March Monthly Digest

Here's my best-performing post in March:

"So a VC brings me in to audit this scale-up’s marketing engine."

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I came across a high-value post this month from Kieran Flanagan. The new rules of marketing.

Here's my thoughts on his post:

1. Is distribution everything? Yes, once you've nailed solving a meaningful problem in a way people are willing to pay for.
2. Channels will never bend to fit with products. Spot on.
3. Marketing Ops to AI Ops. Not quite there yet but it's moving in the right direction.
4. The freemium apps opportunity is HUGE.
5. B2B creators is still niche, but growing.
6. M&A only for product or sales isn't quite right. Deals vary for different reasons but some include: acqui-hiring (getting the team), competitive moat, quickly enter a new market or geography, strategic diversification, advantages to economies of scale or regulatory reasons. Typically reasons for M&A exceeds merely distribution as it's a complex and expensive process with a high failure rate.
7. "Marketing takes over more of the customer journey" - coming soon but not quite there yet.
8. "Fall in love with the craft "- I reckon the best marketers were always doing both data & brand building.
9. Centralise domain expertise and decentralize regional knowledge. I've seen this in multiple companies; this isn't new. I'm also not a fan - I reckon pods with dedicated focuses outperform horizontal structures.
10. "Marketing is so much fun right now" It's always been fun.

That's it, short & sweet.