All Things Growth and Marketing

Every company wants a “strategic” product marketer, but not many know what that actually means. You can ship launch decks, update competitor comparison sheets, and still have zero influence on profit and loss.

Most product marketers are stuck in launch mode and never make it past messaging. Real product marketing starts after launch; when the market responds, when your GTM strategy gets tested, and when you have to adapt fast or get buried.

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Most email marketing courses still teach the easy part: sending campaigns, testing subject lines, and reading basic engagement metrics.

The harder part is building email into a channel that actually drives revenue. The latest email marketing data puts ROI at 10:1 to 36:1, with top-performing programs exceeding 50:1. Yet only 13% of teams use advanced personalization, despite 93% saying personalization improves leads or purchases.

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Product analytics is the process of using behavioral data to understand how people use a product, where they experience value, and what changes can improve activation, engagement, retention, and revenue.

That skill is becoming more important as analytics moves beyond static dashboards. Mixpanel’s 2026 State of Digital Analytics analyzed more than 22 billion user actions across eight industries and found that leading teams are increasingly using analytics to reduce time to value, identify friction, improve retention, and decide what to do next rather than simply report what happened.

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Most marketers burn half their LinkedIn budget trying to buy attention. They optimize for impressions, clicks, and engagement or metrics that look good in dashboards but don’t build pipeline.

The best advertisers treat every campaign as an experiment and every dollar as a data point—every test feeds a repeatable framework for growth.

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Meta ads are getting more expensive, and the platform is cracking down on the tactics advertisers used to pull.

Meta’s own numbers show it. In Q2 2026, the average price per ad rose 12% year over year, the second straight quarter at that rate, while impression growth cooled to 14% from 19% in Q1. Inventory is expanding more slowly and clearing at higher prices.

At the same time, broad targeting and automated placements have absorbed most of the manual work. Audience construction, the skill that used to separate good media buyers from bad ones, matters less every quarter.

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