By next year, the best marketers will earn more than ever, uncapped, tied to the growth they actually create.
The talent war has already started, and everyone wants to find their Don Draper.
Base + variable, tied to revenue driven
Execution is becoming *way* cheaper thanks to AI. One person with the right tools can create as the same marketing assets as a team did two years ago. So as a business, you don't need to pay for assets anymore - you pay for results.
Your real personas aren't demographics. They're psychographics: clusters of pain points, language patterns, and failed solutions. And there are way more of them than you think.
The brands winning are the ones with 15-20 pain-point-specific personas, not 3-4 demographic buckets.
One 9-figure brand I work with has 19 sub-personas and runs different ad sets to each of them. They’ve doubled their growth rate in the last two months.
The best creative inspiration comes from brands selling to YOUR audience but in different categories. A vitamins brand might learn more from a meal prep service than from another vitamins brand.
Ad performance data from top-spending brands in ADJACENT categories
VOC data from her own brand
Observational gaps — audiences she can see in the data but isn't currently reaching