Journal — GrowNav

Strategy · Websites · Search · Social · Content · Performance

Journal — GrowNav

How we think about websites, search, content and paid media — written up properly, so you can judge the thinking before you buy any of it.

All writing.

The glazed corner of a modern office building, shown as a website hero.
Websites

Your website is not a brochure. It is infrastructure.

Every channel you pay for ends at the same destination. Treating that destination as a design exercise is why marketing budgets quietly underperform.

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Performance

Spend last.
Decide first.

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Performance

Most Meta budgets are spent before the offer is ready

Paid media is the fastest way to test a message and the fastest way to waste a quarter. The difference is decided before a single ad goes live.

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Social

The LinkedIn advantage nobody in manufacturing is using

Your buyers are technical, cautious and already researching you. There is one channel where that behaviour is visible — and most of your competitors have abandoned it.

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Search

Known offline.
Invisible online.

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Search

SEO for businesses that already have a reputation

If people know you offline and cannot find you online, the problem is rarely content volume. It is usually structure, and it is usually fixable.

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Content

One shoot, forty assets: how a content system actually works

Running out of things to post is not a creativity problem. It is a production problem, and it is solved on the day of the shoot.

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Strategy

Decide what
you are for.

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Strategy

Positioning is a business decision, not a tagline

It decides what you build, what you charge, who says yes and who walks away. Handing it to a copywriter at the end of a project gets it exactly backwards.

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Business

How To Find the Best Upcoming NFT

The simple tools and methods used by the best collectors and traders in the space — 2021 really was the breakout year for NFTs. We saw a huge surge in demand, especially for the generative avatar genre. Supply boomed

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Community

Stop Creating 10,000 NFT Collections

They’re not going to make you rich, nor will you learn something from it. Here’s what you can do instead. — If you’re intrigued about the instant riches of selling out a collection of 10,000 NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and

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Crypto

How to Launch an NFT Project by Yourself

Creating 10,000 auto-generated artworks, deploying a smart contract to the Ethereum / Polygon blockchain, setting up some tools, etc. — There is so much to do from launching to running an NFT project. Creating parts for

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Business

Why I left the Bored Ape Yacht Club

In late November 2021, as part of Treeview’s business development exploration for opportunities in combining Metaverse technologies with Web3, I joined the Bored Ape Yacht Club (Link to the Post). Since joining

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