Marketing LinkedIn Is Eating Marketing: 31% of Business Marketing Now Happens There LinkedIn used to be the world’s most boring social network — a graveyard of résumés, jargon, and humblebrags. Today, it’s the hottest stage in B2B marketing. What was once a platform for job hunters has quietly become the go-to arena for thought leadership, community building, and lead generation. The By Tobias Dahlberg • 2 min read
u1492637478_A_simple_wheel_in_the_middle_of_the_frame_against_1ca4b7ed-9a3a-43f1-9a93-823cab5ba971_1 Agency Growth The Case for Radical Simplicity: Why Cutting 80% of Your Clients And Services Is How You Scale Profitably Most agencies and consultancies aren’t failing because they’re bad. They’re failing because they’re busy. Busy chasing revenue. Busy adding services. Busy saying yes to everything. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: growth doesn’t come from addition — it comes from subtraction. If you want to scale, By Tobias Dahlberg • 4 min read
Entrepreneurship The Case for Radical Simplicity: Why Cutting 80% of Your Clients And Services Is How You Scale Profitably Most agencies and consultancies aren’t failing because they’re bad. They’re failing because they’re busy. Busy chasing revenue. Busy adding services. Busy saying yes to everything. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: growth doesn’t come from addition — it comes from subtraction. If you want to scale, By Tobias Dahlberg • 4 min read
u1492637478_Simplicity_--ar_21_--v_7_01d1f90b-9ba3-4d45-a4a6-7a08f3da0230_2 Entrepreneurship The Case for Radical Focus: Why Cutting 80% of Services (and Chasing Profit, Not Revenue) Is How You Scale Most agencies aren’t failing because they’re bad. They’re failing because they’re busy. Busy chasing revenue. Busy adding services. Busy saying yes to everything. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: growth doesn’t come from addition — it comes from subtraction. If you want to scale, you need By Tobias Dahlberg • 2 min read
u1492637478_Two_creative_consultants_a_man_and_woman_shot_edito_3f8b3257-b5d9-4ddd-9f74-8fed0d9f0f20 Agency Growth The Imagination Economy: Creativity as Capital Why the Future Belongs to Those Who Can Conceive What Machines Can’t In Brief In an age when AI can do almost anything, the only thing that matters is what hasn’t been imagined yet. The industrial economy was built on muscle. The knowledge economy was built on memory. By Tobias Dahlberg • 4 min read
two people future Global The Future Of Work: Revaluation of Labor How the Meaning of Work—and Value—Is Being Rewritten in Real Time In Brief We are witnessing a once-in-a-century revaluation of human worth. Not financial worth, but existential worth — what it means to contribute, create, and count. For decades, work was identity. We introduced ourselves by what we did, By Tobias Dahlberg • 5 min read
Entrepreneurship AI’s Effect on Junior Roles — Why Your “Cheap Labor” Model Just Died Executive Summary For years, agencies and marketing teams ran on a simple equation: hire young, bill high, burn fast. Juniors filled the decks, wrote the copy, built the reports — cheap labor feeding expensive machines. That model just hit a wall. AI now does 80% of what junior staff were hired By Tobias Dahlberg • 2 min read
Entrepreneurship The Great Collaboration: Entrepreneurs Forming Alliances to Compete By Tobias Dahlberg • 2 min read
Entrepreneurship Creating Modular Project Templates to Scale Repeatable Work By Tobias Dahlberg • 2 min read
window refelctions Entrepreneurship How To Build a $2M Marketing Engine with a 3-Person Team Why the Old Models Are Breaking Traditional agencies were built for another era — when stability was higher, and the only way to scale was to hire. But high fixed costs and overhead create fragility. Many agencies today struggle with thin margins, high stress, and the constant chase for billable hours. By Tobias Dahlberg • 1 min read
Entrepreneurship Founder Loneliness: The Untold Epidemic in Creative Hubs Done Here’s the part of entrepreneurship that doesn’t make it into the glossy founder profiles: loneliness. Creative hubs like London, Lisbon, Austin, or LA are supposed to be the cure — buzzing coworking spaces, startup events, rooftop mixers, and endless Slack groups. On paper, it’s the perfect antidote to By Tobias Dahlberg • 2 min read