Nate is Learning
Hey. I’m Nate Guggia. Every year I talk with hundreds of Marketing, Brand, and Recruiting leaders. I use this newsletter to distill what I’m hearing.

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Mar
24

Anti-Hustle Culture and the Need for Attention

This narrative around hustle culture is played. It has been for years. And the anti-hustle culture commentators have become triter and more idiotic than the stuff they claim to be speaking out against.
2 min read
Mar
21

Buckets of Revenue

I've found that simplifying revenue opportunities and talking about them in the most straightforward terms helps the people around you understand how they can support money-making activities.
1 min read
Mar
17

News: I've got a new jobby job :)

A quick update on my new role and company.
1 min read
Mar
14

Market to Your Entry Points

Spend less time trying to influence the decision-makers that only operate off personal recommendations, and more time trying to give the people they trust things to recommend.
Mar
10

Product Hunt’s Race to the Bottom

Quality and relevance don’t apply when you can be the best at front-loading the launch.
Mar
09

Technological Fog and the Lost Skill of Connecting Dots

It’s time that we loosen our dependence on tools, step out of the fog of digital scoreboards, and get back to being curious about how our buyer operates IRL.
1 min read
Mar
03

Screenshots of LinkedIn Interactions I Just Can't Delete (Friday Fun)

Sometimes I have to take screenshots to remind myself how wild LinkedIn has become.
1 min read
Mar
02

Marketing’s Race to the Bottom: Why Margins Are the Wrong Business Metric

If your brand is about changing the way your market thinks, behaves, operates, or solves problems, then adoption, fulfillment, influence, and connection are infinitely more valuable than maximizing margins.
1 min read
Feb
28

Is the Tech Industry Entering the Freelancer Era?

Spoiler alert: No.
2 min read
Feb
24

The Plight of Brand Marketing

I don’t see sales, brand, and marketing as either/or’s. They are both/and’s that strategically fit together. That said, it’s really hard to sell into an environment where nobody knows who you are.
2 min read