04/02/2026
Have you ever noticed how much unnecessary stress gets created in the name of "good marketing"?
Post every day or the algorithm will punish you. Share your personal struggles to connect with your audience. Plan 3 months of content in advance. Go viral. Be on every platform.
We hear it so often it starts to sound like fact. But most businesses following all of this advice aren't seeing better results. Their marketing team is just more stressed.
So I wrote about it. The marketing "rules" that sound important but don't matter a ton, and what helps instead.
Topics I covered:
- Why you don't need to post daily (and what consistency means)
- The "authentic and vulnerable" trap
- Content calendar anxiety
- The viral content myth
- Platform FOMO
- What drives revenue (not aesthetic grids, no matter how pretty they are)
You're an adult. I can't force you to ignore these rules. But I hope you'll think about where you learned them and whether they're serving your business or just creating burnout.