FIELD NOTES

Guides to
marketing discovery.

Research, worked examples, and explainers about how people discover brands.

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Education & service discovery

How to plan a free service sample

Define a small task, participant preparation, time, and a finished result. A worked session brief shows how to introduce your expertise and review participation.

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Founder brands

How to connect founder content to your company

Choose a customer task, show a work decision and its evidence, state the offer, and review what people understand. A fictional example shows a founder post before and after revision.

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Communities & events

How to prepare for a business event

Choose an event, prepare an introduction and a listening question, agree on follow-up, and review what you learned. A worked example shows the notes to keep.

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Events & education

How to improve free webinar attendance

Measure live attendance and replay viewing, check the joining path, and test changes that help people reach the lesson. Use a worked example to evaluate reminders, access, and pricing.

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Social strategy

How to check an AI-generated social media plan

Review audience assumptions, verify sources and local details, and turn a recommendation into a bounded test. A fictional worked example shows the decisions to record.

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Newsletters & audience

How to invite social followers to your newsletter

Define the newsletter promise, test a voluntary signup path, preserve subscription records, and review the response. A worked example shows how to revise the invitation.

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Content operations

How to keep product marketing content current

Map content to the tasks and claims it depends on, assign release checks, and verify corrections across tutorials, creator posts, and embedded videos.

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Brand identity

How to announce a new brand name

Connect the old and new names, explain what changes for customers, and check the places people find and contact your business.

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Paid awareness

How to plan a paid awareness test

Set a total spending cap, define the audience question, and separate delivery from response and completed actions. A fictional worksheet shows CPM and average frequency.

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Creator collaborations

How to plan a shared creator post

Agree on the audience lesson, contributions, credit, and publication roles before inviting a creator. A worked brief shows how to plan and review one shared post.

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Partnerships & events

How to choose local marketing partners

Find organizations that serve a related audience, agree on a shared activity, and review one small test. A real directory walkthrough and fictional plan show the process.

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Audience research

How to find unspoken audience questions

Observe a real task, separate actions from explanations, and test the missing knowledge. A worked example helps marketers turn audience research into clearer educational content.

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Social & local awareness

How to measure social media store visits

Define a store visit, keep intent signals separate, and compare the change with a baseline. A worked example helps social teams and local businesses agree on targets.

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Educational content

How to turn portfolio work into marketing content

Explain a creative brief, show your decisions, label concept work, and share project lessons with prospective clients.

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Positioning & messaging

Who owns brand positioning?

Give positioning decisions a clear owner, gather customer evidence, resolve disagreements, and help your team apply the chosen direction.

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PR & measurement

How to measure PR and brand awareness

Build a checkable PR report with fair competitor comparisons, clear message tests, audience research, and practical limits on attribution.

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Social & communities

How to build a social content publishing workflow

Choose audience questions, adapt each post for its channel, verify publication, and record responses and production time.

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SEO

How to prepare service pages for Google indexing

Check access, rendered content, and the task a visitor can complete before revising an unindexed service page.

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SEO

How to diagnose a sudden Google ranking drop

A practical process for confirming a search decline, finding its scope, testing likely causes, and choosing the next action.

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