Where Premium Brands Come To Grow
WHERE PREMIUM BRANDS COME TO GROW
Catherine spent two weeks being her own ideal customer – shopping the end-of-financial-year sales for a frying pan, a kombucha kit, a yoghurt kit and linen pyjamas – and turned it into a live case study of how premium buyers actually shop in 2026. She clicked plenty of Meta ads, and not one of them […]
Marketing is the hat that doesn’t come off. If you’re running a premium eCommerce brand and you’ve been quietly burning out – not from the hours but from the cognitive weight – this episode is for you. We explore three structural properties that make the marketing function qualitatively different from every other hat a founder […]
Everyone in Australian retail right now is having one of two conversations: “it’s quiet” or “what sale should we run next?” Our clients are having neither. They’re up year-on-year, they’re not heavily discounting, and they’re not throwing more money at ads. This episode unpacks exactly why – and what the brands who are quietly winning […]
There’s a step in the premium buyer’s purchase journey that almost no marketing advice acknowledges — and it happens right in the middle of your sales funnel, in the five minutes between clicking your ad and deciding whether to buy. It’s called the validation search. And once you understand it, you’ll see your entire marketing […]
If you’re running paid ads for a premium eCommerce brand and your ROAS isn’t scaling the way it should — or you’ve been posting consistently for years and growth is still flat — there’s a very good chance the problem isn’t where you’re looking for it. In this episode of The Brand Marketing Show, I’m […]
You scaled your ad spend. Your ROAS had other plans. There’s a specific kind of dread that sets in when you bump your Meta budget from $80 a day to $300 and watch your ROAS crater in real time. You do what any reasonable person would do. You blame the ads. New creative. New audiences. […]
Most ecommerce brands that are struggling to grow right now are stuck because they’re making one critical error. They don’t have the right overarching growth strategy in place. And I know what you’re thinking – “But I’m doing marketing! I’m sending emails, posting on social media, running ads, maybe even working on SEO.” Yes. You’re […]
Can we talk about the elephant in the room? You know the one. It’s that nagging feeling every time you open Instagram or check your ads manager. The constant, relentless need to produce fresh creative content – photography, videos, graphics, captions – when none of that is actually your core skill set. You got into […]
Look, I’m going to be honest with you. I’ve spent something like 25 years helping business owners scale their companies through mastering their marketing. I’ve seen brands go from kitchen table operations to seven-figure powerhouses. I’ve also seen brilliant products and passionate founders crash and burn. And after all that time, I can tell you […]
So we’re in early November now, and I have a question for you: how are those ad costs treating you right now? Yeah, I thought so. Look, I’m not going to sugarcoat this – if you’ve been running ads in the last few weeks, you’ve probably noticed your costs have gone absolutely mental. And it’s […]