Master brand positioning and storytelling from a strategic and executive perspective. It’s not just about campaigns; it’s about building authentic narratives backed by marketing analytics to truly connect with audiences. Discover a critical view that prioritizes strategic consistency and long-term impact over short-lived tactics.
Many products include layers that only certain groups of users actually use, while others pay the same price without perceiving any imbalance. The ProRAW mode on the iPhone by Apple, for example, enables professional-grade photo editing: photographers value it, but most users don’t even know it exists. Product maturity lies in understanding what truly drives purchase, what retains users, what defends against competitors, and what is simply excess.
Dynamic pricing promises to optimize revenue by adjusting prices in real time, yet it often clashes with consumer perception. Balancing efficiency, scarcity, and capturing the customer’s maximum willingness to pay, this strategy can lead to prices perceived as opportunistic, eroding trust. An analysis of when it creates value—and when it crosses the line into perceived greed.
Marketing is an amplifier, not a substitute for reality. It works when there is a solid foundation of product, processes, and experience; it fails when it is used to mask structural shortcomings. Pushing storytelling beyond real delivery capacity leads to frustration, loss of trust, and operational debt. When marketing promises what an organization cannot deliver, the problem is not the narrative, but the structure behind it.
Price is never inherently expensive or cheap; it always depends on the value delivered. Low cost usually implies measurable trade-offs: narrower seats, cheaper materials, simplified processes. Perceived value cushions the experience, but does not change reality: low cost delivers adjusted expectations, not absolute quality.
The screen democratized access, leveled the stage, and turned the pixel into a battlefield, but it also flattened impact and drove up the cost of attention. In a saturated market, a product no longer competes only on attributes; it competes on meaning. The only thing that cannot be replicated is the concept that connects emotion and identity, because in an oversaturated world, we don’t remember what we saw, we remember what moved us.
In e-commerce, success often feels provisional, and revenue tends to outrank the narrative. When sales dip, past achievements barely buy time, and analysis speeds up—driven by data, pressure, and doubt. But growth isn’t an absolute merit, nor is decline automatic incompetence. What sets strong teams apart is their ability to diagnose without panic, to distinguish what’s within their control and what isn’t, and to redefine the path that leads—once again—to growth.
The funnel was never a snapshot of reality, but a tool to model and organize our actions with potential customers. Simply measuring and automating can lead to mechanical marketing. By contrast, recognizing patterns, accelerated stages, and human unpredictability allows the funnel to be used as a more powerful tool, balancing efficiency with understanding.
In B2B environments, the relationship between marketing and sales isn’t always a harmonious one. Their level of alignment depends on internal balance, corporate culture, and, in many cases, the particular dynamics of the industry itself. In this post, I explore how to strengthen collaboration between both teams, which metrics to share, and how to establish feedback processes that enhance message coherence and commercial effectiveness.