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Filed Under Nothing
Buyers sort you into a category before they evaluate anything.
7 hrs ago
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Matt Trifiro
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Right Too Early
Being early and being wrong produce the same bank balance.
Aug 11
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Matt Trifiro
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Pick a Door. Any Door.
The market you enter determines the buyer you need, the story you tell, the metrics you watch, and the budget you burn.
Aug 8
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Matt Trifiro
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You Build the Market—or Inherit Someone Else’s
Why the strongest companies escape incumbent comparisons and set new measures of value.
Aug 6
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Matt Trifiro
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July 2026
The CMO Job Is Turning Into a Systems Job
The next marketing advantage won’t come from producing more campaigns. It’ll come from cleaner data, faster feedback loops, and better decisions.
Jul 5
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Matt Trifiro
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June 2026
AI Doesn’t Reward the Marketers Who Use It Most
AI turns clarity into leverage and confusion into forgettable output at scale.
Jun 30
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Matt Trifiro
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Designing Your Website for the Age of AI Agents
Your website used to be a persuasion surface for humans. Now, it's a reasoning surface for machines.
Jun 27
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Matt Trifiro
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The End of Fortress Marketing
Switching costs, proprietary tech, and data advantages are fading. What remains is taste, speed, and point of view.
Jun 25
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Matt Trifiro
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Stay in the Account
Why the leaders who keep their hands on the work are the ones who keep their jobs.
Jun 24
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Matt Trifiro
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The Long Game in Content
Why asking for nothing drives more revenue than the hard sell.
Jun 23
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Matt Trifiro
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Sell Like a Doctor, Not a Salesman
Why the icky feeling disappears the moment you stop trying to close
Jun 22
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Matt Trifiro
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One Team, One Scoreboard, No Priesthood
What changes when engineers and salespeople stop ranking each other.
Jun 22
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Matt Trifiro
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