Books on strategy are not in short supply. The business section of any airport bookshop will give you fifteen variations on the same three ideas, dressed up in different case studies. The ones worth reading are rarer, and they tend to share a quality: they make you think differently about problems you thought you already…
A strategy on a page is a single document that captures the essential logic of a go-to-market plan: who you are targeting, what you are offering, why it matters, and how you intend to win. Done well, it replaces a 40-slide deck that nobody reads with one sheet that everyone actually uses. Most marketing strategies…
Mobile strategy is the set of decisions that determine how a business reaches, engages, and converts customers on mobile devices across the full customer lifecycle. It is not a question of whether to have a mobile presence. It is a question of how mobile behaviour shapes your go-to-market approach, your media mix, and your product…
A decision making strategy is a structured approach to how choices get made inside an organisation, covering who decides, what information they need, and how quickly they act. Without one, decisions default to whoever shouts loudest, whoever has the most slides, or whoever booked the meeting room. In marketing, that pattern is expensive. Most marketing…
Psychographics in marketing is the practice of segmenting audiences by their values, beliefs, attitudes, interests, and lifestyle choices rather than demographic characteristics like age, income, or location. Where demographics tell you who bought something, psychographics tell you why they bought it, and that distinction matters more than most marketing plans acknowledge. Done well, psychographic segmentation…
The bottom of the pyramid refers to the largest and poorest socioeconomic group in the global economy, roughly 4 billion people living on less than $10 a day. C.K. Prahalad’s argument, first made in his 2004 book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, was that this population is not a charity case but…
Empathy marketing is the practice of building strategy around a genuine understanding of what customers feel, fear, and want, rather than what a brand wants to say about itself. Done well, it shifts every commercial decision, from product positioning to channel selection, closer to the customer’s actual reality. Most brands claim to do this. Very…
Leadership and trust are not built through vision statements or culture decks. They are built through the accumulation of small, visible decisions made under pressure, and whether the people around you saw you hold the line or fold when it mattered. In a commercial environment, trust is a functional asset. When it exists, teams move…
Patagonia’s sustainability strategy is one of the most studied and most misunderstood in modern marketing. The “Don’t Buy This Jacket” campaign, launched in 2011, looked like brand suicide on the surface. A company telling customers not to buy its products. But it wasn’t a stunt. It was a deliberate commercial position, built on a coherent…
The STAR framework, which stands for Situation, Task, Action, and Result, is typically used in job interviews and case studies. Applied to a SaaS go-to-market strategy, it becomes something more useful: a structured way to document what you did, why you did it, and whether it actually worked. Most SaaS companies are good at describing…
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