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The game of wasting money

Knowing ourselves—what we like, what we’re best at, what we value above everything else—is what makes us different.
Joel Kelly Oct 25, 2021

The noise before defeat

“The bold move is the right move, except when it’s the wrong move.”
Joel Kelly Oct 18, 2021

Will your marketing work?

Your marketing position is a core part of the structure of your strategy, and of your business. In short, it’s the answer to these five questions:
Joel Kelly Oct 12, 2021

What does “strategy” mean?

What does “strategy” even mean? What’s your definition? Do you see it as just a “synonym for expensive,” as one economist called it?
Joel Kelly Oct 4, 2021

Average is deadly

“Because George believed he was supposed to find a solution, he did.” Whether we believe it or not, our beliefs affect our actions and our abilities.
Joel Kelly Sep 28, 2021

How to not fit in

The hardest part about creating a marketing position that’s right for your ideal customers is that it’s necessarily wrong for your non-ideal customers.
Joel Kelly Sep 13, 2021

It’s a slip and not a fall

At the age of 49, only a few years before being elevated to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln considered himself a flat failure. And on that evening in 1858, after watching the election results come in at the telegraph office, he walked home defeated.
Joel Kelly Sep 7, 2021

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