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A MOMENT TO THINK · THE BOOK

The full series as one volume.

Twenty-one essays on what marketing becomes when the customer's agent does the matching directly. Bound together with a preface, contents page, and afterword. A4 format — read on screen, or print at home.

93 pages 21 essays + preface A4 PDF 0.6 MB
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What's inside

PrefaceMarketing was a workaroundp. 1
I. Architecture
01.Cloud beneath the cloudp. 6
02.The perimeterp. 8
03.India fixed its banks. No bailout.p. 10
04.In the Kingdom, but sovereign?p. 16
05.Not a data problem. A timing problem.p. 24
06.MarTech is mostly taxp. 29
II. Operating model
07.The CMO no longer owns the customerp. 34
08.The golden record was always a liep. 38
09.The hub is now the bottleneckp. 42
10.Three decades of ROMI. Zero audits.p. 45
III. Accountability
11.When the agent decides, who answers?p. 49
12.After the underwriterp. 53
13.The campaign is the unit of nostalgiap. 57
14.Your customer just hired counselp. 61
15.After the dazzlep. 65
IV. What comes next
16.Is the agent the COO?p. 68
17.The next regulator is your agentp. 72
18.The agent kills brand. Then rehires it.p. 75
19.After the clickp. 78
20.Marketing was the matching workaroundp. 82

What you're getting

A Moment to Think is the digital-first edition of the series — a single bookmarked PDF you can read, share, or pass to a colleague. A4 format prints cleanly at home. The chapter exhibits and tables are embedded inline. A printed paperback edition is in production for executive distribution.

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