The biggest myth about marketing

All of us experience marketing all day long, almost everywhere we look. Surprisingly, this causes most people think they understand the marketing game. That’s like eating a nice meal at a restaurant and proclaiming you can cook it yourself and run the restaurant. “I’m...
Entrepreneurs figure it out

Entrepreneurs figure it out

I’ve noticed something that all successful entrepreneurs say when they are interviewed about how they grew their crazy startups into big businesses. You also hear it in interviews with Olympic gold medal athletes. And when successful individuals talk about their...
How I got great PR results on the second try

How I got great PR results on the second try

Public Relations is one of the trickier parts of the marketing game. It’s not like digital advertising or email marketing, where you can push a button and make measurable things happen right away. A year ago, I hired a savvy PR agency to book me for speaking, podcast...

Scaling Points are everywhere, yet hidden in plain sight

I have been an observer and student of the Scaling Point for 25 years. It’s the strangest thing. It’s completely obvious on the outside, yet we don’t notice it or understand it. It’s hidden in plain sight. Like the joke about the fish that says to another, “How’s the...
What’s the difference between Product-Market Fit and the Scaling Point?

Beware the Startup ADD Trap

Discovering and executing on your Scaling Point is a necessary requirement for growing a little company into a big one. But why is it so rare? There are two reasons why Startup ADD is an almost universal disease that is very hard to cure. First, starting up requires...