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The marketing mistake that costs more than your ad spend
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- The Brand Marketing Show
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- Jul 22, 2026
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- 2224
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Summary
"If I could just crack Meta, I'd be able to scale." I hear a version of this almost every week – and it's almost always wrong. In this episode of The Brand Marketing Show, I make the case that growing a premium brand was never about pulling one lever. It's a whole system, and it fails quietly in several small places at once. I walk through the small silent leaks that hide behind healthy-looking numbers, the "wrong machine" problem (and why I'd have gone broke marketing my first business the way Huggies markets nappies), and the most expensive thing in your business – which isn't your ad spend. You'll leave with a better question than "what's the one thing," and a practical way to find the one constraint actually holding your brand back. Find this episode and more at https://www.productpreneurmarketing.com/episode-326/ ecommerce marketing, premium brand marketing, how to scale ecommerce, product based business, marketing podcast, conversion rate, customer research, small business Australia