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Marketing strategy and execution — from positioning and messaging to channels and measurement.
Three different antique keys on a brass ring against sage green background — representing different audience persona types.
Marketing

How I Think About Audience Personas Differently Now

For years I built audience personas the way everyone teaches it: job title, pain points, a stock photo of “Michelle the Marketing Director.” It's not wrong — but it's incomplete in a way that costs deals. The layer that matters is personality matching.
15 Aug 2026 4 min read
Empty wooden picture frame leaning against a sage green wall — representing the framing problem in technical marketing.
Marketing

The Framing Problem in Technical Marketing

The first sign something was off: twenty minutes explaining COS architecture to a demand gen manager, precise and bottom-up, and she was polite but not engaged. The framing was the problem, not the product.
13 Aug 2026 5 min read
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