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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.

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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Spend last.
Decide first.
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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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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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Known offline.
Invisible online.
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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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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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Decide what
you are for.
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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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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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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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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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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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