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Where to Spend Your First Dollar When Clients Already Search for You
Demand already exists for your service. The real question isn't visibility — it's whether you're fishing in the right pond.
Aleksandr Kosenko
Lifelong learner, Product marketing manager, Data Analyst --- I help people and companies make successful products, ranging from courses to interactive museums and apps.
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Your Positioning Has 5 Cracks — A Real Marketing Plan Teardown
I tore apart a real marketing plan and found five positioning mistakes that solo businesses keep making. Each one looks minor until you see them stacked together.
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Your Strategy Goal Says 'Years' but Your Plan Says 'Month'
When a strategy's ambition and timeline live in different universes, everything built on top crumbles. Here's the mismatch most strategists miss.
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Your Strategy Deck Gets Closed in 30 Seconds — Here's What's Missing
A freelance strategist sends a 30-slide PDF. The client scrolls, closes it, asks: "What am I supposed to do?" The fix isn't better design — it's structural.
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Your Marketing Strategy Is an Essay — Three Rules to Make It a Working Document
Most marketing strategies are pretty words and trendy channels with zero logic. Three rules turn a pile of slides into a document someone can act on.
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Night Shift leaves the blue subpixels lit — an amber diode keeps melatonin at 26 pg/mL
Your body decides what time it is from light hitting the retina — and a glowing screen counts as noon. Night Shift doesn't fix that; the blue subpixels are still lit.
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10 Questions I Ask Before Every Ad (After Wasting $400)
I burned $400 on an ad that brought zero clients. Now I run every creative through these questions before hitting Publish.
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Your Ad Works Fine — The Landing Page After It Is Bleeding Money
The ad copy isn't your problem. The friction after the click — wrong pages, unreadable phones, missing captions — is where your budget actually disappears.
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How to quote deadlines you actually hit — and what to do when a meteor lands on you or a colleague
Ten days before the trade show, a producer showed up with new client data — and every template had to be redrawn. The rule that saved it came from Burger King, not project management.
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Your Best-Looking Ad Probably Isn't Your Best-Performing One
The ad you almost deleted might outperform the one you're proud of. Here's how to evaluate creative with a process, not your taste.
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A $0 Text Post Outsold a $15K Video Ad 28-to-1. Here's Why.
Beautiful ads with hollow messages get scrolled past. Learn the one framework that turns your product's real value into words your audience actually responds to.
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Same one-week deadline, three iterations instead of one
Same week, same brief, same skills — three very different outcomes. The difference isn't talent or effort, it's how early you're willing to show something rough.