Not Enough Lobster In The Ocean: Trusting their gut leads to 90,000% revenue growth at Mint Mobile (Episode #11)

How I Made it in Marketing

Apr 4 2022 • 1 hr 9 mins

“We run the scientific method. Hypothesis. Experimentation. Observation. Analysis. Optimization,” Aron North told Daniel Burstein in our latest podcast episode. Great minds think alike. North’s approach is almost identical to Step #6 of the Landing Page Blueprint (https://meclabs.com/course/blueprint/).

Listen now to hear Aron North, Chief Marketing Officer and Commercial Owner, Mint Mobile (https://www.mintmobile.com/), discuss allowing for failure (when you follow the scientific method), trusting your gut, conducting a job interview with every single person coming into the marketing department, and more.

Some ideas from the stories North told in this episode:
– If you aren’t failing, then you aren’t trying hard enough
– Trust your gut
– Creative > Production
– All great creative begins with a strong consumer insight
– F.B.N.A (Free Beer No Assholes)
– Fastertizing

Related content mentioned in this episode

Headline Writing: How a junior marketer beat the CEO’s headline by 92% (https://marketingexperiments.com/copywriting/headline-testing)

How Marketing Skills Are Helping Employee Recruitment and Satisfaction: 3 quick case studies (https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/case-study/marketing-skills-employee-hiring)

500 Mangled, Stretchy Rubber Guys: Make sure you have the right marketing partner for your super creative plan – Podcast Episode #3 (https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/interview/direct-mail-podcast)

Creative Inspiration: 9 mini case studies of marketing campaigns and business ideas sparked by unorthodox inspiration (https://www.marketingsherpa.com/article/case-study/9-mini-case-studies-of-creative-marketing)

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This podcast is not about marketing – it is about the marketer. It draws its inspiration from the Flint McGlaughlin quote, “The key to transformative marketing is a transformed marketer” from the Become a Marketer-Philosopher: Create and optimize high-converting webpages free digital marketing course (https://meclabs.com/course/).


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