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  • Why Premium Buyers Don’t Buy From Ads Alone – and What They Do Instead

    If you’re running paid ads for a premium eCommerce brand and your ROAS isn’t scaling the way it should — or you’ve been posting consistently for years and growth is still flat — there’s a very good chance the problem isn’t where you’re looking for it. In this episode of The Brand Marketing Show, I’m […]

  • How Smart eCommerce Brands Market Differently When Times Are Tough

    If your eCommerce marketing used to work brilliantly and lately it’s feeling like you’re pushing harder for smaller returns — you’re not imagining it. The landscape has genuinely changed. And the instinctive responses most brand owners reach for when results decline are almost always the ones that make things worse. In this episode, Catherine Langman […]

  • The Afterpay Day Dilemma: How To Show Up Without Selling Out

    Let’s talk about the week you’re probably having… Petrol prices have hit $2 a litre – and heading higher – thanks to the US-Israel strikes on Iran disrupting global oil supply. Cost-of-living anxiety is back with a vengeance. And Afterpay Day officially kicks off on the 19th, though half the brands on your feed have […]

  • There Is No Silver Bullet Growth Strategy: The Death of “Set & Forget” Marketing

    February is not only the shortest calendar month but also typically the slowest sales month for eCommerce and – because of that – is often the month that I see business owners make fear-based snap decisions that end up hurting their profitable growth long-term… Remember when you bought that course that promised the “exact funnel” […]

  • When Boring Gets a Makeover: Why Most Brand Content Falls Flat (And How to Fix It)

    Have you ever noticed that most brand content is so… forgettable. It’s not that brands don’t try. They’re producing more content than ever. Social posts, emails, product descriptions, blog articles, ads. The volume is enormous. But most of it lands with a thud. No engagement. No emotional response. If you even notice it at all… […]

  • Discount Detox: How One Brand Rebuilt After Years of Discounting Dependency

    Two weeks ago on the podcast, we went deep on the damage that constant discounting does to your brand. The profit erosion. The customer conditioning. The way it trains your audience to never pay full price. We talked about the four buyer types and how constant discounting only speaks to one of them — while […]

  • One Platform, No Plan B: The Danger of Building Your Brand on Borrowed Land

    Stop and think for a moment about where your customers come from. Is it mostly Meta ads? Mostly Instagram? Have you built a following on TikTok that’s driving a lot of your brand awareness? Now here’s the uncomfortable question: If that channel disappeared tomorrow — not scaled back, not got more expensive, but actually disappeared […]

  • The Discount Trap: Why Constant Sales Are Killing Premium Brands

    In the last 2 weeks alone I’ve had three brand owners come to me, all with the same story. They’ve been told by marketing “experts” that every single EDM, every Meta ad needs a discount incentive. Every website needs a countdown timer or some other kind of FOMO bells and whistles. One of them showed […]

  • Reflect, Reset, Design: Your 2026 Planning Framework

    We’re in that strange, liminal week between Christmas and New Year. The turkey’s been eaten, the presents have been opened, and there’s this quiet space before the new year kicks off. It’s a natural time for reflection as well as for looking ahead. I know many of you are ambitious and have big goals you […]

  • Your 14-Day Christmas Marketing Plan: What To Prioritise With Your Marketing Now

    We’re in the first week of December now. Which means you’ve got roughly 14 days of meaningful marketing time before most of your customers mentally check out for the holidays — and before your shipping cut-off dates make the whole thing a bit irrelevant anyway. Now, I know what you might be feeling right now. […]