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Practical writing on brand strategy, performance marketing, web design and SEO. No hot takes — just the lessons we keep coming back to in client work, written by the people doing the work.

Updated weekly · 2026 24 essays · 6 categories

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N°. 023 SEO

The SEO playbook for boutique B2B agencies

Forget keyword stuffing. The compounding traffic strategy we've used to take three clients past 50k organic visits a month — without a single piece of AI-generated content.

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N°. 022 Branding

Tone of voice is a contract, not a vibe

How to write a tone-of-voice document that actually changes what gets shipped. Templates, anti-patterns, and the one-page test we run on every client deck before sign-off.

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N°. 021 Web Design

Landing pages that convert without lying

The structural decisions — above and below the fold — that move conversion from 1.8% to 4.6% on a typical B2B site. Annotated teardowns of three pages we recently shipped.

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N°. 020 Case Study

How Nordstem became the obvious choice in 6 months

A walk-through of a 24-week engagement: what we changed, what we kept, what surprised us, and the two metrics that tell us the rebrand actually worked.

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N°. 019 Performance

What we stopped measuring (and why our clients grew faster)

Five vanity metrics every B2B brand still reports on, and the four leading indicators we replaced them with. With the actual dashboard we use internally.

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N°. 018 Strategy

The positioning question we ask in every kickoff

One sentence. We won't begin a project until the founder can answer it without flinching. Why it works, why most teams skip it, and how to write yours this afternoon.

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