Key takeaways
- A pillar page on marketing strategy: how to connect positioning, analytics, content, and execution into a system that compounds instead of resetting
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Strategy is not a presentation. It is a set of decisions that stays coherent under pressure.
A good strategy survives:
- channel changes,
- algorithm updates,
- team turnover,
- and the temptation to chase tactics.
This pillar is a map of the system.
The three layers
- Positioning: what you are, for whom, and why it matters.
- Distribution: how you reliably reach the right people.
- Measurement: how you learn and allocate resources.
Most teams fail because one layer is missing.
Measurement is not reporting
Reporting tells you what happened. Measurement tells you what to do next.
If your dashboards do not change decisions, they are decoration.
Supporting essay:
Sensemaking beats planning
Markets move faster than plans. You need an operating rhythm:
- collect signals,
- turn them into hypotheses,
- ship small experiments,
- keep what works.
Supporting essay:
Avoid redesigns without strategy
Design is not strategy. A redesign can improve UX, but it cannot fix unclear positioning.
Supporting essay:
A practical weekly loop
- One metric review (what changed, why).
- One distribution action (publish + repurpose).
- One product/offer iteration.
- One systems improvement (automation, documentation, QA).
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