The Playbook

Thinking and doing

In the Trenches — war stories AKA what I'm doing in marketing

Guides & Tools — frameworks, calculators and reasoning

Team & Hiring

The Marketing Team of One

One operator with the right tools beats three specialists. The prize is bigger than a cost saving.

Team & Hiring

What's the Point in Humans?

AI writes the copy, builds the pages and optimises the bids. So what is your marketing team for?

Owned Data

The 1st Party Marketing Method

Own the channel, the customer and the data. Then your marketing compounds instead of expiring.

Profit Maths

ROAS Is Not Profit

A 4.0 RoAS can lose money. A 1.8 RoAS can scale. The difference is unit economics.

Profit Maths

Discount Impact Calculator

See what a discount really does to your profit.

1 min Product Pages

Get to the point

I like it when people get to the point. So do visitors to your product pages.

1 min Merchandising

Show them what you’ve got

Nobody wants to scroll through ten pages to find a product. Promoted filters can help.

1 min Merchandising

Make exploring easy

Here's what to do when customers buy the wrong thing.

30 secs AI Search

AI Info Page

A page written for LLMs, not shoppers? Yes.

30 secs Navigation Happy Little Doers · September 2026

No more junk drawers

Lazy navigation hurts sales. Unfortunately, I got lazy.