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Marketing Lessons from Outliers & Non-lifers You Never Considered

Lifer: a person who has made a lifelong commitment, usually in a certain career. Some of the most influential humans in recent history have made powerful statements by doing the complete opposite and bestowed powerful marketing lessons along the way. Like who, you say?
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Inside Amazon Marketplace, The Wild West of E-commerce

The numbers can do the talking. The Amazon Marketplace contributed $135 billion to Amazon’s 2017 sales with an estimated 5 million sellers on the platform (and growing). Without a doubt, a huge sub-culture of business! So how does it work? Is it easy to become a seller? Let’s find out, shall we?
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The Direct To Consumer Business Trend (And How To Get In)

With their sharp marketing and simplistic designs, they seem to have come out of no where: MVMT, Warby Parker, Casper, Everlane. Where the hell did all these direct-to-consumer companies come from and is there any room to begin your own? There is more hope than you think.
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Performance Trumps Delivery: Measuring Individual Success on Any Startup Team

Anyone can show up to work; not everyone can perform. As much as we emphasize “delivery,” team’s often forget about the most important element of every role: performance. So where do you start and what do you measure? Get ready to find out.
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Book Review: Influence (The Power of Persuasion For Busy People)

It’s all around us but we rarely call it out: persuasion. The concept of influence can be distilled to 6 actionable principles that you can immediately start using in a resource-strapped startup.