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SD#40: Fake content, shorter work week and brands

October 16, 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 important things in life are nothing at all, ever, to do with retailers and brands Most of the people who inhabit our world cannot see the […]

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#38: B2B, stoics, and idea generation

October 2, 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) B2C is our past, B2B is our future The fastest-growing companies in the world don’t sell fizzy drinks and designer shoes anymore. These days, the fastest-growing companies […]

SD#35: Systems vs goals, happiness and sharing meals

September 11, 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 dirty tricks of social media One of the ongoing patterns in cyberland is the lag time between the point at which a platform achieves great success […]

SD#34: TEA, eSports, persuasive dissent and shamelessness

September 4, 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) Making behavioural change easy When marketing goods or services, it’s critical to take any impediments out of the process. We know this of website use – the […]

SD#33: Market orientation, sacred beliefs and doing less

August 28, 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 more a company copies a competitor’s strategy, the more it loses the ability to create its own There is a long and rewarding literature on the […]

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#31: Digital delusion, Brahman and Einstein’s focus

August 14, 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 digital delusion of the marketing industry Digital media have been the primary cause and the primary beneficiary of delusional thinking in marketing. The fascinating thing is […]

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”, […]