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Chandan Mishra
Chandan Mishra writes about marketing, go-to-market strategy, and the human side of technology. This magazine is where those notes live.
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7-Signal, B2B Intent Score Framework for Teams Without a Six-Figure Marketing Budget
Most demand gen teams don’t have an intent problem. They have a scoring problem. A signal…
Everyone Wants High-Intent Buyers. Good Luck Finding Them.
There is perhaps no more frustrating phrase in B2B marketing right now than “high intent.” Find…
Marketing Is Not About Reaching People. It Is About Understanding Why People Respond.
For years, marketing has been treated like a reach problem. How many people did we reach?…
Why “Nobody Gets Fired for Buying the Big Name” Still Decides B2B
There’s an old line in enterprise software: nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. It’s decades…
Stop Improving Your Product. Improve How It Feels.
You’ve been handed a budget to improve the Eurostar, the train that runs under the Channel…
Why the Opposite of a Good Idea Is Often Another Good Idea
Most marketing decisions are made by elimination. You list the sensible options, you remove the risky…
Customer LTV Is Not a Finance Metric. It Is a Growth Signal
Enterprises track everything, transactions, campaigns, renewals, product usage, support tickets, and dashboards across every function. Yet…
When Products Stop Being Products and Start Becoming Identity
Something important is changing in consumer culture. People are no longer buying many products only because…
The Sephora Kid Effect: How Gen Alpha Turned Skincare Into Status
The “Sephora Kid” effect is a viral phenomenon involving Gen Alpha (children roughly ages 8–14) who…
Why Familiarity Often Beats Innovation in Marketing?
Familiarity in marketing is the quiet sense of comfort a buyer feels when something seems known,…
How to Write a Brand Positioning Statement That Actually Makes People Notice
For years, positioning was taught as a strategic discipline. Define the audience. Define the category. Define…
Top 10 Marketing Communities and Groups you should join
Marketing can feel noisy today. There is content everywhere, advice everywhere, frameworks everywhere, and opinions from…
Top 10 Most Promising and Most In-Demand Marketing Jobs in 2026
Something important has changed in marketing. A few years ago, the most desirable marketing roles were…
How to Build a Brand Personality People Can Feel
Brand personality is the human vibe of a brand, how it would feel if it were…
We Buy Identity, Not Products, Why Product Positioning essentially Is Identity Design
Walk into any store, physical or digital and you’ll see the lie we’ve all agreed to…
How “Cool” Is Manufactured and Who Decides It
Cool feels like magic when you’re on the outside of it. You see something and you…
Why Minimalism Feels Premium
Minimalism isn’t just a design trend. It’s a psychological signal. When you see a clean website…
Why luxury copywriting sounds cold and why it works
Luxury copywriting has a strange effect on people. It can look almost empty on the page,…
Why “Soft Life” and “Quiet Luxury” Became Emotional Movements
At first, both looked like aesthetics. “Soft life” showed up as slower mornings, fewer notifications, cleaner…
Why Luxury Is Often About Safety, Not Style
Luxury is usually sold as beauty. Better design, better materials, better craftsmanship, better taste. That’s the…
The Psychology of “Treat Yourself”
It usually happens in a small moment. You’ve had a long day. Or a long week.…
Why We Don’t Want Products, We Want Rituals
You don’t really want the coffee. You want the morning Rituals. You want that first sip…
Why We Copy Each Other More Than We Admit
You know that moment when you buy something and tell yourself it was your idea? Not…
Swipe Is the Smallest Gesture That Changed the Internet
If you want to understand modern attention, don’t start with algorithms. Start with the thumb. Swipe…
The Story of Crocs, How an Ugly Shoe Became a Cultural Icon
It didn’t start as a fashion statement. Crocs didn’t begin in a design studio with moodboards…
Why do some brands feel like a lifestyle, not a product?
Some brands don’t feel like products. They feel like a version of you. You don’t just…
Why Some Brands Become Culture and Most Don’t
Brand stories are not “about your founder journey.” They’re not your origin myth, your product features,…
Top 10 Trends Defining B2B Marketing in 2026
B2B marketing in 2026 is not simply “evolving.” It is being re-architected. The older playbook assumed…
Traditional SEO Is Being Replaced by Search Everywhere Strategies
Traditional SEO was built for a world where intent began on Google, discovery happened on ten…
The Story of Anthropic and Claude
It begins in the world’s most famous AI castle: OpenAI. From the outside, everything looked perfect—breakthrough…
The Future of Social Listening is narrative Intelligence
Social listening was born in an era when the internet behaved like a giant public square.…
Social Listening in the AI Era, When the Conversation Moves, the Listener Must Evolve
Social listening is the discipline of systematically tracking and interpreting what people say online, about your…
How AI Will Change Marketing in 2026 for companies and customers
In 2026, the marketing impact won’t be limited to faster content creation. The deeper change is…
Your Brain Isn’t Neutral, The Psychology Behind Everyday Bias
We like to imagine we’re rational adults walking around with opinions and principles, carefully making choices…
Why Intent Beats SEO? The Invisible Step Before Search
In 2026, buyers don’t start with a query, they start with a belief. If you don’t…
Social commerce, the feed is the storefront now
Social commerce isn’t “ads on social” anymore. It’s a complete shopping journey happening inside the feed…
Search has moved from Google to Social Media & ecosystems
By 2026, social media is no longer just influencing discovery, it is where discovery starts. More…
Marketing Has Changed, 10 Major Shifts Teams Haven’t Noticed Yet
Marketing didn’t change overnight. There was no big announcement, no dramatic collapse. It changed quietly, while…
AI Quietly Stole the Top of the B2B Marketing Funnel
When you want to understand a new concept, you don’t go hunting through ten brand blogs…
We Perform, How Social Media Is Rewriting Human Behavior
We’re not just living life anymore. We’re performing life for validation, belonging, and proof that we…
Top 10 Social Behaviors That Only Exist Online
The internet didn’t just move human conversation onto screens, it quietly rewired how we think, behave,…
Top 10 Human Psychology Stats That Explain Why People Really Buy
Marketing often looks like a game of tools, tactics, and algorithms, but beneath everything sits one…
Top 10 Rules for B2B Brands to Get Discovered in the AI Era
There was a time when marketing felt linear. You created content, optimized keywords, built backlinks, and…
The Future of Search (SEO), Why Brands Must Become Entities, Not Just Websites
In my 20 years leading marketing teams, I have seen a lot of “tectonic shifts.” I…
How Calm App Conquered the Chaos
In 2012, the world buzzed with a frenetic energy. Smartphones were ubiquitous, notifications incessant, and stress,…
The Story of Canva, How a Simple Idea Made Design Possible for Everyone
In the sun-drenched streets of Sydney, Australia, a young woman named Melanie Perkins dreamt a revolutionary…
The Inspiring Journey of Duolingo
In the bustling heart of Pittsburgh, amidst the hum of Carnegie Mellon University, a playful idea…
Rewriting Baby Formula, The Bobbie Story
In the sterile world of baby formula, where giants cast long shadows and innovation slumbered, a…
The Story of Zoho, Building a Global Software Company from India
In the heart of Chennai, India, amidst the cacophony of honking rickshaws and bustling street vendors,…
The Story of Salesforce
The year was 1999, and the tech world was a gold rush. Marc Benioff, a young…
The Netflix Story, From DVD Rentals to Streaming the World
In the late 90s, amidst the booming era of Blockbuster giants, two unlikely heroes embarked on…
Pins & Needles, The story of Pinterest
In the bustling heart of Silicon Valley, amidst the clash of tech titans and the buzz…
From Burbn to Billionaires, The Instagram story
In the heart of Silicon Valley, amidst the buzz of opportunity and the hum of ambition,…
From Garage to Global Stage, The Epic Rise of YouTube
In the dimly lit confines of a Silicon Valley garage, three friends huddled around a flickering…
The Story of Twitter
Imagine a world before 140 characters could spark revolutions, ignite trends, and connect millions. In 2006,…
The Story of Snapchat
In the hallowed halls of Stanford University, amidst the clinking of coffee cups and hushed whispers…
Air Mattress to Empire, The Airbnb Odyssey
The year was 2007. San Francisco pulsed with innovation, but Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, two…
The Rise of Facebook
In the hallowed halls of Harvard University, amidst the murmur of ambition and the scent of…
How to Build an AI SEO Strategy That Makes Your B2B Brand Visible Inside AI Search
The way B2B decisions are made is being quietly rewritten. Buyers no longer start their search…
Why Local Brands Are Winning, and What Marketers Can Learn
One of the most interesting shifts in the market right now isn’t happening in boardrooms or…
Why Buying Local Is Quietly Becoming a Competitive Advantage
Last year, I left the city I had lived in for years and moved to small…
What I Realised Working as a Fractional CMO
You Don’t Get the Full Picture and You Never Will One of the first things you…
Reviews Were Never About Opinions. They Were About Risk.
For a long time, marketers treated reviews as sentiment: good, bad, neutral. Star ratings were used…
The B2C Marketing Framework
B2C marketing looks chaotic from the outside. Trends appear overnight. Products go viral for no obvious…
The B2B Marketing Growth Framework for 2026
B2B buying didn’t become more complex in recent years. It became more human. The biggest shift…
Has AI Replaced Search, or Are We Asking the Wrong Question?
Every few years, someone declares that search is dead. First it was social.Then marketplaces.Now it’s AI.…
The Most Expensive Thing in Marketing Is Making People Think
One of the most persistent mistakes in marketing is the assumption that more information, more choice,…
Why More Choice Often Leads to Less Buying
The modern conversation about choice overload in marketing effectively began with a table of jam. In…
How the Internet Decides for You (Before You Think It Does)
When people make decisions online, it feels personal. Intentional. Rational. We like to believe we are…
The Psychology of Waiting, Why Speed Isn’t the Real Advantage?
We like to believe the success of 8-minute delivery is about speed, but speed is just…
How Digital Behavior Shapes Expectations Across Platforms
One of the most profound forces shaping modern markets is not innovation itself, but memory. Human…
Why GTM Teams Struggle to Convert Trust Into Revenue
Most go-to-market teams don’t struggle with awareness.They struggle with confidence. Today, buyers trust brands long before…
Decision Fatigue in the AI Era
We have never had more help making decisions.And yet, we have never felt more exhausted by…
We Decide Before We Understand, Every Day, in Small Ways
Think about decisions that didn’t feel technical at all. Choosing a doctor.Picking a school.Trusting a brand…
Marketing Was Never About Selling. It Was About Helping People Choose.
Marketing has never really been about products. Not features.Not funnels.Not dashboards, growth hacks, or clever CTAs.…
Personalization Is No Longer About Targeting, It’s About Belonging.
For years, personalization meant one thing:brands knowing more about customers. Names in subject lines.“Recommended for you”…
We Don’t Log In Anymore. Human behavior is now Digital
What’s the last thing you remember about logging in? Typing a password.Hearing the dial-up tone.Consciously stepping…
How the Attention Economy Is Redesigning Physical Spaces
For Gen Z, sharing isn’t an add-on to life, it’s part of how life is processed.…
Why GTM Breaks in the AI Era and Why the Fix Is Still Human
We are living in the most automated, data-rich, AI-accelerated era of go-to-market the world has ever…