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Marketing Ideas

40 harsh truths every marketer needs to hear πŸ’Š

Hard won lessons from 10+ years in marketing

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Tom Orbach
Mar 19, 2026
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  1. Every marketer should be familiar with Wikipedia’s β€œList of Internet phenomena”. You can’t influence the internet if you don’t understand internet culture.

  2. Trust is the new moat. Vibe coding lets anyone ship an app in 3 hours. The only real separator between serious companies and weekend projects is brand and reputation. This will only get more true in 2027-2028.

  3. Pricing is marketing. If you charge too little, people assume your product is bad.

  4. Oracle shipped their first product as β€œVersion 2”. There was never a Version 1. Larry Ellison knew no one trusts a first draft. Perception of maturity is real. Position every launch as already-battle-tested.

  5. The best marketers I know spend more time studying psychology than studying marketing. Cialdini is a good place to start.

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