The One-Day CEO Marketing Reset

Let’s say you only had one day to reset how your company approaches marketing.

Not to brainstorm campaigns.
Not to review reports.
But to fix your mindset and rewire how your leadership team thinks about marketing.

What would you do?

Here’s the checklist I’d give any CEO who wants marketing to finally work — not just look busy.

1. Redefine What Marketing Is

Not “promotion.”
Not “advertising.”
Not “the creative team.”

Marketing is how you compete.
It’s how you grow your business, create profit, protect margin during it and earn loyalty after.

If you don’t see it that way, don’t be surprised when it keeps underperforming.

2. Put Marketing at the Strategy Table

Bring your CMO or marketing lead into the room when key decisions are made:

• Who do we serve? What segments exists? What is the value of each segment?
• What should we offer?
• How will we win?

If marketing is only looped in after the fact, you’ve already limited its value.

3. Separate Activity from Strategy

A campaign is not a strategy.
A content calendar is not a plan.

Audit all your current marketing activity. Ask:

“Does this connect back to how we grow, whom we serve, and what we stand for?”

If not, cut it. Or reframe it.

4. Make Metrics Matter Again

Ditch the dashboard full of fluff.

Pick a few metrics that tie back to real outcomes:

• Effective reach
• Mental availability
• Price elasticity
• Long-term CAC
• Repeat purchase rate

Less noise. More signal.

5. Review Your Brand Truth

Quick test:

• What is your brand known for?
• What does it look like when no logo is present?
• Would a competitor ever say the same thing?

If you’re not clear on these neither is your market.

Fix that.

6. Pressure-Test Your Pricing

Is your pricing based on cost or brand strength?

Is it building your positioning or undermining it?

Ask yourself:

“What does our price say about our value?”

Then align accordingly.

7. Commit to Building Memory, Not Just Awareness

If your marketing disappears tomorrow, would anyone notice?

If not, you’ve built reach but not memory.
Familiarity is the bedrock of future demand. Start seeding it today.

8. Train Your Team to Think Commercially

Marketing should know the numbers.
Finance should understand branding.
And everyone should speak the same language of growth.

Otherwise, you’ll keep running in circles.

9. Decide What You’ll Stand For and Stick to It

Confused brands don’t grow.
Consistent ones do.

If your message, tone, or look keeps changing, you’re not evolving you’re eroding.

Pick your story. Own it. Repeat it until people can say it without you.

A checklist is only the start. If any of this made you pause it means you already know something needs to change.

Are you ready to stop outsourcing marketing thinking and finally own it as a CEO?

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