The Messy Middle Journal

Stories from the messy middle of marketing.

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Messy Middle Helpline — Case #061: The Skills Overview
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Messy Middle Helpline — Case #061: The Skills Overview

THE PROBLEM You have 15 specialist marketing brains. You're using none of them. gimmefy Skills are one-brief generators — each one built...

gimmefy · Apr 13 · 2 min read
Messy Middle Helpline — Case #060: The Executive Voice
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Messy Middle Helpline — Case #060: The Executive Voice

THE PROBLEM Your CEO's LinkedIn is a ghost town with a company logo. Thought leadership is not a blog post with your...

gimmefy · Apr 13 · 2 min read
Messy Middle Helpline — Case #059: The Funnel Fix
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Messy Middle Helpline — Case #059: The Funnel Fix

THE PROBLEM Leads do not nurture themselves — and most marketing teams confuse sending emails with building pipeline. You're generating leads but...

gimmefy · Apr 13 · 2 min read
Messy Middle Helpline — Case #058: The PPC Architecture
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Messy Middle Helpline — Case #058: The PPC Architecture

THE PROBLEM Throwing money at Google Ads and hoping for the best is not a media strategy. You're running ads across Google,...

gimmefy · Apr 13 · 2 min read
Messy Middle Helpline — Case #057: The Attribution Clarity
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Messy Middle Helpline — Case #057: The Attribution Clarity

THE PROBLEM Every marketing dollar tells a story — but only if you know how to read it. You're spending across five...

gimmefy · Apr 13 · 2 min read
Messy Middle Helpline — Case #056: The Conversion Detective
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Messy Middle Helpline — Case #056: The Conversion Detective

THE PROBLEM Traffic is expensive. Wasting it is criminal. You're spending on ads, SEO, and content to drive traffic. But your conversion...

gimmefy · Apr 13 · 2 min read
Messy Middle Helpline — Case #055: The Human Email
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Messy Middle Helpline — Case #055: The Human Email

THE PROBLEM Your email list is a graveyard of good intentions. You have the subscribers. You have the platform. What you don't...

gimmefy · Apr 13 · 2 min read
Messy Middle Helpline — Case #054: The Content Calendar
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Messy Middle Helpline — Case #054: The Content Calendar

THE PROBLEM Publishing content without a strategy is expensive noise. You're posting three times a week because someone said you should. But...

gimmefy · Apr 13 · 2 min read
Messy Middle Helpline — Case #053: The Consistent Voice
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Messy Middle Helpline — Case #053: The Consistent Voice

THE PROBLEM Your brand sounds different every time someone writes for it. The website sounds corporate. Social sounds casual. Email sounds like...

gimmefy · Apr 13 · 2 min read
Messy Middle Helpline — Case #052: The Brief That Works
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Messy Middle Helpline — Case #052: The Brief That Works

THE PROBLEM A bad brief wastes more money than a bad campaign — because it guarantees one. The brief is the most...

gimmefy · Apr 13 · 2 min read
Messy Middle Helpline — Case #051: The Data Persona
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Messy Middle Helpline — Case #051: The Data Persona

THE PROBLEM Your personas are fiction. Your customers are real. Someone made personas two years ago. They have names like 'Marketing Mary'...

gimmefy · Apr 13 · 2 min read
Messy Middle Helpline — Case #050: The GTM-in-an-Hour
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Messy Middle Helpline — Case #050: The GTM-in-an-Hour

THE PROBLEM Your launch plan is a Slack thread and a prayer. You're launching something new. There's a date on the calendar....

gimmefy · Apr 13 · 2 min read