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Learn marketing as models you can argue with

Marketing is taught as a stack of named frameworks, which is why so much of it evaporates a week after the exam. A framework you have pushed on — clicked through, seen the edges of, found out where it stops being true — is a different thing from one you have highlighted. The block below is Rogers' adopter curve, and every segment in it does something when you click it.

Rogers' adopter segments. Click any one to see what it takes to reach it.

Labelled diagram · diffusion of innovationsFIVE SEGMENTS
Innovators2.5%Early adopters13.5%Early majority34%Late majority34%Laggards16%

Adoption spreads through five groups, and each needs a different kind of evidence before it moves — which is why one message never reaches all of them. Pick a segment to read what it takes.

The width of each band is its real share of the market.
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What people come here to do

You describe the goal in your own words and it asks questions back until the plan is one you would actually follow. These are the shapes that goal usually takes.

  • Pass a marketing module without memorising frameworks
  • Understand the strategy my own company keeps citing
  • Move from doing marketing to explaining it
  • Prepare for a marketing interview

What a marketing plan covers

Not a fixed syllabus — the plan is built around your goal and cuts what does not serve it. These are the topics it draws from, and whatever you get wrong comes back until it stops coming back.

Diffusion of innovation and adopter segments
Segmentation, targeting and positioning
Pricing and willingness to pay
Channels, funnels and attribution
Brand, differentiation and category
Reading a market and sizing it honestly

Other subjects

The mechanics are the same whatever the subject — a slider is a slider whether it is moving a coefficient or a rate of return. What changes is what it is a slider for.

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