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SD#39: Purpose, sleep, and liminal creativity

October 9, 2022 Hi friends, Welcome to another edition of Seven Dawns, your weekly newsletter on marketing, productivity, psychology and more. Our seven ideas this week: 1. (Marketing) The industry has gone too far into ‘purpose’ and forgot to pay attention to growth A couple of weeks ago, the news of Yvon Chouinard, the 83-year-old […]

SD#36: Inspiring emotion, failure and savings

September 18, 2022 Hi friends, Welcome to another edition of Seven Dawns, your weekly newsletter on marketing, productivity, psychology and more. Our seven ideas this week: 1. (Marketing) The best ideas don’t start with a grand theory, they start with a little tinker In 1971 Carolyn Davidson was a young graphic design student at Portland […]

SD#32: Availability bias, financial sorcerers and climate action

August 21, 2022 Hi friends, Welcome to another edition of Seven Dawns, your weekly newsletter on marketing, productivity, psychology and more. Our seven ideas this week: 1. (Marketing) Creating assets specifically for each channel is more effective than repurposing them Most marketers know the potency of spreading their media dollars across multiple channels. But the […]

SD#30: Branding, sleep deprivation and doing nothing

August 7, 2022 Hi friends, Welcome to another edition of Seven Dawns, your weekly newsletter on marketing, productivity, psychology and more. Our seven ideas this week: 1. (Marketing) How brands work The reason brands exist, at the bottom line, is to make the bottom line work harder. They do that by making it more likely […]

SD#29: Subscription models, journaling and crypto

July 31, 2022 Hi friends, Welcome to another edition of Seven Dawns, your weekly newsletter on marketing, productivity, psychology and more. Our seven ideas this week: 1. (Marketing) Subscription models should take into consideration the perceived utility others derive relative to ours Our perception of value is not simply a case of “utility minus price”, […]

SD#27: Choice, financial freedom and compound returns

July 17, 2022 Hi friends, Welcome to another edition of Seven Dawns, your weekly newsletter on marketing, productivity, psychology and more. Our seven ideas this week: 1. (Marketing) Consumers don’t want choice, but to be more confident in the choices presented The average American adult makes 35,000 decisions every day — from what they wear […]

SD#26: Temptation bundling, recessions and advertising words

July 10, 2022 Hi friends, Welcome to another edition of Seven Dawns, your weekly newsletter on marketing, productivity, psychology and more. Our seven ideas this week: 1. (Marketing) Brand budgets should be going up not down during a recession It’s no surprise that marketing budgets are usually the first to be cut in a downturn. […]

SD#25: Recession marketing, apophenia and getting things done

July 3, 2022 Hi friends, Welcome to another edition of Seven Dawns, your weekly newsletter on marketing, productivity, psychology and more. Our seven ideas this week: 1. (Marketing) During a recession, organisations that double down on marketing come up on top after the storm From retaining a long-term view and the importance of excess share […]

SD#24: Choice, the false compromise fallacy and investing

June 26, 2022 Hi friends, Welcome to another edition of Seven Dawns, your weekly newsletter on marketing, productivity, psychology and more. Our seven ideas this week: 1. (Marketing) The biggest mistake marketers make is believing choice is a good thing. It isn’t Consumers don’t want more choice, but to be more confident in the choices […]

SD#23: Drama in ad fraud, millennials and productivity addiction

June 19, 2022 Hi friends, Welcome to another edition of Seven Dawns, your weekly newsletter on marketing, productivity, psychology and more. Our seven ideas this week: 1. (Marketing) Ad fraud shenanigans getting out of control Last week, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) released a mind-blowing report on ad fraud. For years Bob Hoffman and […]