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Marketing playbook

A SaaS messaging framework that turns your feature list into a story a buyer can follow

Feature lists make buyers do your job. The four-part order a stranger can follow, the three kinds of homepage headline, and the words that empty a message. Lesson 5 of the playbook.

12 min read
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Marketing playbook

How to pick a beachhead market so your first customers come from one place

Selling to everyone leaves every page generic. What a beachhead market is, five questions to pick yours in one sitting, and when to widen. Lesson 4 of the playbook.

5 min read
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Marketing playbook

How to position a SaaS product so buyers get it on the first pass

Buyers misunderstand products described from the inside. Five written questions, one two-hour sitting, and the one-sentence test. Lesson 3 of the playbook.

5 min read
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Marketing playbook

B2B SaaS marketing strategy: the five systems every company needs

Channels are not a strategy. The five systems that are, the symptom when each one breaks, and how to tell which is your bottleneck. Lesson 2 of the playbook.

6 min read
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Marketing playbook

Marketing for technical founders: you built the product, now nobody knows it exists

Why capable founders feel lost at marketing, the advice that wastes their budget, and the order of operations that fixes it. Lesson 1 of the playbook.

6 min read
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AI & Automation

How to build a custom marketing dashboard with Claude Code

Stop losing a day a month to manual reporting. Build a lean dashboard with Claude Code, and keep it small enough to stay useful.

6 min read
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SEO & content

B2B SaaS SEO with AI: how a small team builds organic into a top channel

Volume loses. How a lean team uses AI to make organic a top revenue channel: strategy first, bottom-funnel pages, and the workflow that runs it.

6 min read
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Measurement & attribution

Multi-touch attribution for early-stage SaaS

First-touch attribution lies. Track two things instead of a fancy model, and report what actually drives pipeline.

6 min read
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AI & Automation

How to build an AI-native marketing stack on a startup budget

The lean stack I actually run: the tools by layer, what to skip, and the wiring move that beats spending more.

6 min read
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Hiring & team

Fractional marketing leader vs. your first full-time hire

An honest framework from someone who has done both: when to go fractional, when to hire full-time, and how to choose.

6 min read
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Demand generation

How to build a B2B SaaS demand engine from scratch

The real order of operations for taking marketing from zero to a primary revenue channel, from a first marketing hire.

6 min read
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AI & Automation

11 marketing tasks early-stage SaaS teams should automate with AI

The 11 tasks I automate with AI, with the real before-and-after on each, and the ones to keep human.

6 min read
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AI & Automation

AI marketing automation for B2B SaaS: the playbook behind a two-person team

Most teams use AI like a smarter Google. Here is how to treat it as a system that runs your marketing, with a real example.

7 min read

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