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A CEO and a marketer standing on opposite cliffs with an open gap between them — the Trust Gap

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Article

Your Business Is Stuck. Stop Blaming Your Marketer.

Six questions every CEO has to answer before hiring, or firing, another marketer.

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Article

76 Cents of Every Marketing Dollar Is Being Wasted Right Now

What happened when Chad pulled the real performance data and went line by line.

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Confessions of a Failed Marketer: How I Stopped Pleasing and Started Leading

Chad on years of smiling, nodding, and guessing what the CEO actually wanted.

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Teaching Episodes

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Teaching

This Is Why You Hate Your Marketing Job

First, do you believe in what you're marketing? Second, can you actually get results?

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Teaching

Your CEO Can’t Tell You Why The Company Exists

How to get a real, signed Vision out of your CEO's head instead of reading tea leaves.

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Teaching

Growth at All Costs Is Costing You the Right Customers

Behind the scenes: When Disruptive Advertising walked away from a $1M contract...

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Interview Episodes

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Interview

I Interviewed the CEO Who Almost Fired Me

Chad and the CEO on the other side of his own near-firing, told from both chairs.

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Interview

We Fired 450 Clients in One Year

Why walking away from almost half a client base was the best growth decision Disruptive ever made.

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Interview

"We Walked Away From a $1M Client."

The math behind saying no to seven figures, and what it protected instead.

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The 18-Question Indispensable Checklist

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The Indispensable Marketer

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