Three things I believe: A critical look at data-driven marketing

This was the original introduction on the homepage of the blog. Today I updated it with a new homepage, but I wanted to keep this short introduction on the blog so I could link to it as necessary. 

Three things I believe

  1. If you think marketing is hard, you are likely ignorant (not stupid)
  2. The most fundamental job of a CMO is to understand Customer Lifetime Value, but new customers are far more important than existing customers
  3. Brand marketing is very important but measuring it is mostly a waste of time

I will provide more background on each of those beliefs in the future. When I do I will link to them from this post.