In our latest Misadventures in Marketing episode, Channel Surfing, Steve Haney and Peter Farago tackled a deceptively simple question: how do modern marketing teams figure out which channels actually work, especially when you are starting from a cold start? The short answer, as Steve put it, is that “there’s no... read more →
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At the AMA San Francisco Career Accelerator, one stark realization surfaced repeatedly: career frustration rarely comes from a lack of skill. It usually comes from misalignment. Marketing professionals are fluent in positioning, narrative, and signal. Yet when it comes to our own careers, many of us default to output over... read more →
Our flagship podcast, Misadventures in Marketing, is back with Season 3! In the first episode, Stage Ready, Steve Haney and Peter Farago unpack a topic that many marketing teams still underestimate: public speaking. Rather than treating speaking as a personal perk or a branding afterthought, Steve and Peter framed it... read more →
Marketing rarely fails because teams lack ideas. It fails because too many ideas compete for attention at the same time—without a clear story to connect them, or a structure to move them forward. Most senior marketers recognize this pattern instantly. The backlog grows, alignment slows, execution becomes more complex than... read more →
For most marketers, failure rarely comes from a lack of effort, intelligence, or creativity. More often, it comes from a far more uncomfortable reality: nobody is paying attention. In Episode 8 of Misadventures in Marketing, titled “When Nobody Cares,” hosts Steve Haney and Peter Farago confront this reality head-on. Rather than... read more →
In Episode 7 of Misadventures in Marketing, hosts Peter Farago and Steve Haney dive deep into one of the biggest tensions in marketing today: AI has made content creation cheap, fast, and endlessly scalable—yet capturing attention has never been more difficult. As Peter puts it, “Content is so cheap to... read more →
In this episode of Misadventures in Marketing, hosts Peter Farago and Steve Haney unpack one of the most misunderstood—and often mishandled—responsibilities for marketing leaders: how to show up in a board meeting. CMOs typically get a few minutes to convey progress, surface risks, and signal alignment across the entire GTM... read more →

