Here’s my own provocative statement: this post is a long one, but if you truly want to help Waterloo Region tech companies become more effective at marketing, then you’ll read the whole thing. A couple of weeks ago, Ryan Burgio over at Stryve Marketing shared the provocative Waterloo: We can be better at marketing. In that post, he presented and briefly discussed five […]
Improper optional stopping increased the average False Discovery Rate…This generates two possible costs for a company. The first is a cost of commission. Facing a false discovery, the company will needlessly switch to a new treatment and incur a switching cost. The second cost of a false discovery is a cost of omission. Erroneously believing to have found an improvement, the company stops […]
Tactics are important, obviously – they’re the part where stuff gets done – but they have to work for you, and not the other way around. I’m just gonna come right out and say it: start-ups and scale-ups doom themselves with well-intentioned, but dangerously stifling, overemphasis on marketing tactics. And I’m not going for hyperbole here. I mean the literal meaning of […]