Speaking to everyone makes a brand invisible, so a sharper niche is better.
Recurring revenue is not the same as recurring relationships; churn can replace a customer base.
B2B buyers are still people, and plain language signals confidence.
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Speaking to everyone makes a brand invisible · Recurring revenue is not the same as recurring relationships · B2B buyers are still people, and plain language signals confidence
Nick Stagge is an entrepreneur and writer whose essays connect e-commerce marketing with the realities of building a business.
In the account of starting 20 businesses before one found its footing, they describe learning to sell a service before building the company around it.
The writing also examines how e-commerce brands can grow without losing sight of churn, profitability, and customer value, and why B2B brands can communicate with more clarity and personality.
The Grounded Company is part of their work.
Readers evaluating the business or seeking a signature book, show, or earlier body of work should ask for more detail.
Stagge makes marketing ideas concrete by linking them to the choices and pressures founders face.
In the subscription essay, recurring revenue looks attractive until churn and repeated customer dissatisfaction expose the difference between predictable billing and lasting relationships.
In the positioning essay, the broad claim that a business serves “everyone” gives way to specific e-commerce problems: stalled growth or rising revenue with shrinking profitability.
They connect those problems to acquisition, retention, and conversion rather than treating marketing channels as isolated fixes.
The B2B branding essay makes a related case for plain language and personality without abandoning substance.
Alongside this practical analysis, the account of business failures and the reflection on stepping away from hustle culture show a more personal, reflective voice.
Readers may follow Stagge for the combination of operator-focused marketing explanations and candid lessons about the uncertain work of building a business.
Nick Stagge writes about e-commerce and B2B marketing, but their recurring arguments are narrower than the topic labels suggest: speaking to everyone makes a brand invisible, recurring revenue is not the same thing as a recurring customer relationship, and serious business products can still be explained in plain, human language.
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Underneath the marketing essays runs a longer personal argument about failure, trust, and letting the market pull an idea instead of pushing it.
Speaking to everyone makes a brand invisible
Stagge argues that growth is constrained less by market size than by message clarity.
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When a company says its product is for everyone, the website fills with vague promises about efficiency, innovation, and growth, and the brand starts to sound like every other company in its category.
Narrowing the audience sharpens the language and makes the product's value obvious.
They apply this directly to agencies: full-service positioning produced sameness, and conversations and results improved once the focus narrowed to one buyer.
Stagge describes the company adapting its focus to founder-led eCommerce brands and centering its work on customer acquisition cost, lifetime value, and conversion efficiency. They name two situations they kept seeing among those founders: marketing that works well enough to sustain the business but will not unlock scale, and revenue that grows while profitability shrinks.
Recurring revenue is not the same as recurring relationships
Stagge lays out the standard case for subscriptions: predictable revenue, a product embedded in the customer's routine, and loyalty that builds through repeated fulfillment.
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They then describe the pressure the model creates.
A subscription turns each purchase into an ongoing agreement with expectations of reliability and consistent value.
Dissatisfaction accumulates across multiple billing cycles instead of ending at one purchase.
Churn is the mechanic they say is most misunderstood: subscriptions only work when a customer's lifetime value significantly exceeds the cost of acquiring them, and convenience can start to feel like a loss of control.
Stagge lists the categories where the model has spread, from razors and vitamins to coffee, meal kits, pet food, skincare, software, and socks. Their central illustration is a subscription brand that looks healthy from the outside while quietly replacing nearly its entire customer base each year: the revenue looks recurring, but the relationships are not.
B2B buyers are still people, and plain language signals confidence
Stagge contrasts the traditional B2B style—dense technical language, acronyms, feature lists, and a deliberately sterile tone—with a newer approach that borrows clarity, personality, design, and occasional humor from consumer marketing.
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The old approach assumed business buyers were purely rational and that creativity would undermine credibility.
The result, they argue, was interchangeable messaging in which words like “innovative solutions” lost nearly all meaning.
Substance still matters—reliability, performance, return on investment—but Stagge treats clear and personable communication as a sign of confidence rather than frivolity, especially because buyers now research online long before a salesperson is involved.
Stagge points to software companies publishing thoughtful essays about the philosophy behind their product, a cybersecurity firm making advertising that reads more like storytelling, and a payments platform introducing humor into an industry that took itself seriously. In each case, the company treats customers as peers rather than as anonymous leads moving through a funnel.
In recounting twenty businesses that failed or faded, Stagge says the pattern was usually a slow fade rather than a dramatic collapse, and each time they doubted whether they were cut out for the work.
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What changed at The Grounded Company was not the idea or the market timing.
They sold the service before building the company, so there was a client before there was infrastructure and proof before there was belief.
They describe the newsletter as being about the honest middle between starting and succeeding, the part nobody puts on LinkedIn.
The venture that hurt most was Honey Headphones.
Stagge had raised a $250,000 check to build a headphone brand, and someone else on the team took the money and left.
They say that cost them the automatic, easy version of trust rather than money.
The name Grounded goes back to a skate and snowboard magazine Stagge started in 2007 and returned to about fifteen years later.
The early Grounded magazine and the later Grounded Company share a name and, in Stagge's telling, an instinct. But the operating principle changed from willing an idea into existence to waiting for demonstrated demand.
Unplugging is a stated priority, not a productivity tactic
Alongside the operating essays, Stagge writes short personal posts about deliberately spending more time unplugged, outside, and alone with their thoughts, leaving the phone behind and walking with no soundtrack or notifications.
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They say the habit makes them feel more at peace and more connected, and that they find more fulfillment in the opposite of the hustle-and-grind advice they encounter. It is a recurring register in their public writing rather than a claim about marketing.
A short post about a sunset walk describes noticing beauty in everyday details, both big and small, and frames the choice as intentionally rejecting constant notifications.
An idea Stagge amplifies: Reyn Soffe on balancing brand and marketing
Stagge's post endorses Reyn Soffe, but the views described in it are Soffe's, not theirs.
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Stagge says they have followed Soffe's work for years and describes him as combining creative instincts (design, photography, thinking) with marketer traits (analytical, logical, inquisitive). They say Soffe has been teaching them about uses for AI in creative work, the evolution of consumer personas, and the growing importance of brand differentiation and soul.
Stagge promotes Soffe's talk at the event From Hype to Revenue, presented by The Grounded Company, Klaviyo, and Commerce Catalyst.
Explains whether subscription commerce is a stable growth engine or a hidden churn trap, and gives newcomers the vocabulary—recurring revenue, churn, lifetime value—to assess retention claims.
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The essay explains why subscription models appeal—predictable revenue, routine, repeated fulfillment—and the operational strain they create.
It uses familiar categories such as razors, vitamins, coffee, meal kits, pet food, skincare, software, and socks to show how widely the model spread.
Its central warning is churn: early signups can mask a business quietly replacing much of its customer base each year.
Subscriptions amplify satisfaction and dissatisfaction because feelings accumulate across billing cycles.
For brands planning a campaign
For an agency benchmarking its positioning, this piece offers a concrete diagnostic: don’t sell subscriptions as automatic retention. Build proof around churn, lifetime value, and whether recurring revenue reflects recurring relationships.
Explains why niching down can expand impact and how a clearer audience sharpens the offer—directly relevant to an agency deciding what to be known for.
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The essay starts with the founder answer “Honestly… everyone” and shows how broad targeting makes messaging vague.
It contrasts two founder-led eCommerce situations: brands that can’t unlock scale, and brands growing revenue while profitability shrinks.
It describes Adapted’s decision to focus on founder-led eCommerce brands and the system connecting paid media, email and lifecycle marketing, and conversion optimization, measured through customer acquisition cost, lifetime value, and conversion efficiency.
For brands planning a campaign
Use this as a positioning template: pick a narrow buyer problem, name the symptoms, and show the operating metrics the agency manages. A proof-point content plan could publish diagnostic pieces on CAC, LTV, and conversion efficiency instead of making broad “full-service growth” claims.
Explains what is changing in B2B marketing and why clarity and personality now serve as differentiation, not decoration.
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The piece contrasts traditional B2B marketing—dense technical language, acronyms, feature lists, and a sterile tone—with a newer style that borrows consumer-brand clarity, personality, design, and occasional humor.
Examples include software companies publishing philosophy essays, a cybersecurity firm using storytelling, and a payments platform introducing humor.
It argues that buyers research online before sales, reward clear points of view, and remain people making business decisions.
For brands planning a campaign
Supports a content plan built on founder-visible essays, plain-language positioning, and demonstrated expertise. An agency can differentiate through a recognizable point of view and approachable design rather than interchangeable innovation language.
Explains who Nick Stagge is beyond marketing tactics and why resilience, trust, and market pull recur in their work.
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A personal founder account of twenty failed or short-lived businesses, from an early skate and snowboard magazine called Grounded in 2007 to Honey Headphones, where someone else on the team took a $250,000 check.
The turning point for The Grounded Company was selling the service before building the company: having a client before having infrastructure.
The piece frames the newsletter around the honest middle between starting and succeeding, rather than frameworks alone.
For brands planning a campaign
Useful for founder-led credibility and narrative, especially if the agency wants to sound like an operator rather than a vendor. Treat it as a personal story, not evidence of agency results.
Shows which people and events Nick Stagge publicly associates with, and the brand and marketing ideas they exchange.
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A short recommendation of Reyn Soffe, who balances brand and marketing, creative and analytical work. Nick Stagge says they’ve learned from Reyn about AI in creative, consumer personas, and brand differentiation and soul, and promotes Reyn’s talk at “From Hype to Revenue,” an event with The Grounded Company, Klaviyo, and Commerce Catalyst.
For brands planning a campaign
Highlights an event-and-partner network relevant to eCommerce marketing. An agency could study the positioning of a niche event or explore co-marketing with adjacent operators.
Shows what Nick Stagge values outside work, helping readers understand the voice behind their marketing writing.
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A personal reflection on leaving the phone behind, walking without a soundtrack or notifications, and finding more fulfillment in the opposite of hustle and grind. The post focuses on prioritizing unplugged time and noticing everyday details.
For brands planning a campaign
Offers limited direct campaign application but useful context on tone and founder personal brand. It signals a reflective, anti-hustle voice that may shape personal commentary or help an agency decide when to avoid aggressive growth language.
In “The Most Dangerous Phrase in Business,” Nick Stagge argues that defining a product’s audience as everyone makes the message drift into generic claims and leaves a brand indistinguishable from its category.
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They use the agency market as an example: full-service positioning breeds sameness, while a focus on founder-led eCommerce brands sharpens the conversation around customer acquisition cost, lifetime value, and conversion efficiency.
Contrasts broad positioning with the constraints of a specific buyer segment, using founders’ questions as evidence.
For brands planning a campaign
A B2B eCommerce agency benchmarking its positioning can use this as a direct peer argument for niche focus. A proof-point content plan could publish segment-specific P&L teardowns for founder-led brands, showing acquisition and retention economics rather than channel lists.
Subscription commerce: recurring revenue and hidden churn
In “The Promise and Pitfalls of Subscription,” Nick Stagge lays out the appeal of predictable revenue and an ongoing customer relationship, then details the pressures: expectations of reliability, dissatisfaction that accumulates across billing cycles, churn that can quietly replace the customer base, and the need for customer lifetime value to exceed acquisition cost.
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They also note the tension between convenience and a customer’s sense of control.
A framework essay structured around pitch-deck logic versus operating reality, with churn and lifetime value as the deciding mechanics.
For brands planning a campaign
For an agency, this shows Nick Stagge can speak to retention economics. A proof-point plan could contrast signup growth with net revenue retention in published benchmarks, using their framing to explain why recurring revenue is not the same as recurring relationships.
In “When B2B Brands Start Acting Like…,” Nick Stagge describes the historical divide between consumer and business marketing, the assumption that business buyers are purely rational, and the interchangeable jargon that followed.
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They argue that more B2B companies are adopting a human tone, clearer design, and founder visibility because buyers research online before sales conversations begin. In this account, clarity and personality signal confidence rather than frivolity, while substance still matters.
Historical contrast and industry observation, with founder-led public communication as the accelerant.
For brands planning a campaign
An agency can use this as a positioning thesis for a more human B2B voice. A proof-point plan could publish before-and-after messaging audits showing how a clearer point of view changes buyer comprehension, not just tone.
Entrepreneurial track record as a credibility signal
In “I Started 20 Businesses Before One,” Nick Stagge recounts twenty failed or faded businesses, including Honey Headphones, where a partner took a $250,000 check.
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They describe the shift at The Grounded Company: sell before building, secure a client before starting a company, and let the market pull rather than relying on conviction alone.
First-person narrative built around specific failed ventures and one operating shift.
This is a personal account of past businesses; it does not substitute for current operational proof or client outcomes.
For brands planning a campaign
Stagge presents founder vulnerability as a differentiator. An agency benchmarking its own positioning can ask whether founder-story content is a credible proof point or needs hard operating metrics to help a buyer.
In a LinkedIn post, Nick Stagge praises Reyn Soffe for balancing brand and marketing, mentions Soffe’s teaching on AI in creative work, consumer personas, and brand differentiation, and promotes the event “From Hype to Revenue,” brought by The Grounded Company, Klaviyo, and Commerce Catalyst.
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Endorsement and event promotion naming the practitioner, subject, and commercial partners.
For brands planning a campaign
An agency can benchmark event co-marketing and curated expert networks. A proof-point plan could include a named practitioner event with a specific argument rather than a generic webinar, using Stagge’s promotion as a model for bringing a point of view to a live channel.
In a LinkedIn post, Nick Stagge describes leaving the phone behind on walks, finding more peace and connection, and rejecting hustle culture in favor of a slower pace.
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Alongside the long-form Substack essays, the post shows a public voice that moves between operating analysis and personal reflection.
Short first-person reflection on routines and priorities.
For brands planning a campaign
Personal reflection can make a voice more approachable, but it needs business substance to help a buyer assess campaign fit. The mix offers a benchmark for founder-led content that alternates operating essays with short personal posts.
Stagge’s posts document several businesses they started or were building: The Grounded Company, Honey Headphones, and an early online magazine called Grounded.
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They also write as part of Adapted; ask them to clarify their formal role. Ask them to disclose any sponsor, affiliate, or client relationships.
The Grounded Company
Owned business
In a Substack essay, Stagge writes that they started twenty businesses before The Grounded Company found its footing and that they “sold it before I built it.”
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A LinkedIn post also promoted an event for The Grounded Company.
Stagge writes that they secured a $250,000 check to build the headphone brand Honey Headphones; a partner took the money and left, and they call it the failure that hurt most.
The long-form Substack essays carry the substance: what subscriptions promise founders and where the model quietly breaks; why describing your audience as "everyone" makes a brand sound like its competitors; and why business buyers respond to plain, human language even when the product is serious.
The LinkedIn posts are shorter, moving between promoting a speaker they rate and reflecting on leaving the phone at home on a walk.
For the marketing arguments, read the essay on audience focus first, then the subscription piece.
For the person behind them, the account of twenty failed businesses before The Grounded Company is the most direct way in.
It explains the operating principle they keep returning to: a market has to pull an idea rather than have it pushed at it.
Hamzat treats ecommerce growth as one connected system, tracing traffic, conversion, purchase, experience, retention, and customer value as stages that influence each other.
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They argue for diagnosing the real constraint before recommending a campaign. Stagge makes a comparable point: recurring revenue is not the same as a recurring customer relationship, and churn has to be read against acquisition and lifetime value.
Hamzat uses a diagnostic, checklist-shaped format, framing a hypothetical engagement and walking readers through the questions they would ask first. Stagge develops subscription and positioning arguments in essays, drawing on their experience running and closing businesses rather than client engagements.
Salomon argues from inside retention work that a churn problem is often an acquisition, offer, or product problem, and that no email flow can manufacture loyalty a brand never earned.
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That aligns with Stagge's point that dissatisfaction in a subscription accumulates across billing cycles, and that convenience can tip into a feeling of lost control.
Salomon writes as a practitioner addressing other retention marketers, in short first-person posts that name the platforms and tools she works in.
Stagge writes longer analysis aimed at founders and agencies.
The subscription piece makes a framework argument rather than reporting on a specific client account; ask for a client example if that evidence matters to your decision.
Ashraf breaks subscription churn into distinct phases with distinct causes, warning that the metric flashing red is usually not the one explaining the problem.
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Ashraf and Stagge share the underlying claim that subscription health depends on cohort behaviour and lifetime value, not signup growth or a single retention tactic.
Ashraf's posts are compact case studies built around a named brand situation and a specific measured outcome.
Stagge's subscription essay focuses on the model and its incentives.
Ask for client numbers if you need evidence of results.
Nick Stagge’s writing may suit a campaign aimed at e-commerce founders and marketers.
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Their essays address profitable growth, positioning, subscriptions, and B2B brand voice.
A LinkedIn profile showed 33,689 followers on October 7, 2026, but their posts do not identify followers’ roles, industries, or seniority.
Before a campaign to position an agency, ask for recent audience survey results or another documented role and industry breakdown, along with engagement results on comparable posts.
LinkedIn followers
33,689
LinkedIn account snapshot; follower count, not audience demographics · 2026-10-07
Nick Stagge's posts do not include a published sponsorship policy, media kit, rate card, audience specification or partnership inquiry page.
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The visible commercial activity is their own writing and operating work: Substack essays on e-commerce and B2B marketing, LinkedIn posts, and work at The Grounded Company.
The posts describe one collaboration: an event, "From Hype to Revenue," presented by The Grounded Company with Klaviyo and Commerce Catalyst.
Nick used a LinkedIn post to point readers to a session by Reyn Soffe and a free registration link, not to announce a speaking slot or paid placement.
This signals an event partnership, not a stated sponsorship format; brands should ask directly about terms, deliverables, timelines and how to get in touch.
A brand planning a campaign should treat Nick first as a company operator and publisher whose writing is the reachable asset, without assuming a defined sponsored-placement offer.
A B2B eCommerce marketing agency that wants to benchmark its positioning and choose a focused niche is a good fit for Nick Stagge.
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Stagge's essay "The Most Dangerous Phrase in Business" argues directly that "everyone" positioning makes agencies sound interchangeable and that the sharper path is to serve one segment—founder-led eCommerce brands—and manage the system around customer acquisition cost, lifetime value, and conversion efficiency.
Stagge's subscription essay adds the retention vocabulary for an agency campaign aimed at improving retention: recurring revenue is not the same as recurring relationships, and churn can quietly replace a customer base.
"When B2B Brands Start Acting Like Consumer Brands" supports the voice side of an agency campaign aimed at clearer messaging: clearer, more human B2B messaging works because buyers research before sales conversations.
The commercial format is less certain: no sponsorship policy, media kit, rate card, or partnership inquiry route appears in the posts here, so this is not a documented paid placement.
Stagge is best treated as an operator-publisher and subject-matter voice through their Substack writing, LinkedIn presence, and The Grounded Company event activity.
The agency should approach Stagge for co-created thought leadership or an event-style conversation, with terms agreed separately, not assume a standard sponsored post.
The posts here offer strongest support for positioning and retention arguments and thinner support for current client outcomes.
When to choose a specialist
A consumer subscription-box brand seeking a creator for a direct-response customer acquisition campaign—unboxing videos, discount codes, and performance tracking against a defined monthly-subscriber audience—is a poor fit for Nick Stagge.
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Their posts are text essays and short LinkedIn posts, not video or product-demonstration work.
Their LinkedIn following was 33,689, observed October 7, 2026, but no role, industry, seniority, or consumer-demographic breakdown is available; ask for audience data before assessing a match with consumer subscription buyers.
Their personal post about unplugged walks and rejecting hustle culture is another mismatch with aggressive direct-response creative.
The brand should look for a creator with demonstrated short-form video, product integration, and audience data, and ask whether Stagge offers sponsored placements.
If the need is B2B operator commentary rather than consumer acquisition, reassess the fit.
A worked campaign example
For an agency campaign aimed at sharpening positioning, a worked angle is a co-created "niche proof" package built on Stagge's strongest argument: broad "full-service eCommerce growth" positioning makes agencies sound alike, while a named segment and a measurable system make the offer legible.
The campaign: "The Everyone Tax—What Broad Positioning Costs a Founder-Led Brand."
Asset 1 is a long-form diagnostic essay or benchmark report that opens with the founder questions Stagge names in the positioning essay—why marketing works but not well enough; why each new dollar of growth costs more; why sales do not compound into profit—and then shows the agency's operating view of CAC, LTV, and conversion efficiency.
Asset 2 is a one-page niche-fit scorecard or worksheet that a founder-led eCommerce brand can complete: current segment, primary growth constraint, acquisition cost, retention or repeat rate, and conversion efficiency, with a decision rule for choosing one niche to lead with.
Asset 3 is a live or recorded conversation with Stagge and one named practitioner, modeled on Stagge's public event activity with The Grounded Company, Klaviyo, and Commerce Catalyst, but without implying those partners have agreed to a new campaign.
Distribution runs through Stagge's Substack and LinkedIn and the agency's site.
The angle should not claim Stagge has endorsed the agency or that a paid placement exists; because no sponsorship route or rate card appears in the posts here, the first step is a direct inquiry about co-created content or an event session, with scope and terms agreed separately.
Proof points to reuse: churn is not solved by subscriptions; full-service language creates sameness; clarity about who the agency helps is what sharpens the message.
Choose Ibraheem Hamzat when the agency's deliverable is a diagnostic sequence rather than a positioning essay.
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The agency needs a focused niche and a proof-point content plan, and Hamzat's posts model that shape: start with the unit economics (average order value, customer acquisition cost, conversion rate, repeat purchase behavior, lifetime value), map the journey from traffic through post-purchase, then separate symptoms from constraints before recommending an intervention prioritized by impact, confidence, and effort.
An agency that wants its niche claim backed by a repeatable first-90-days diagnostic, and is willing to build it from its own operating data, gets a closer match than Nick Stagge's essay-led approach.
A second post makes the same argument in narrative form: a weak offer can surface as a conversion problem, weak retention can make acquisition look expensive, and the answer is often upstream of where the symptom appears.
Hamzat's evidence is two short LinkedIn posts, not long-form essays or a publication.
They offer no client outcomes, numbers, audience data, or event presence.
The material does not make the brand-voice, differentiation, or "who do you serve" argument an agency needs to choose a niche, so the agency would have to supply that framing.
Nick Stagge's Substack essays make the positioning argument directly and at length, alongside a founder-operator narrative and public event activity; Hamzat offers the diagnostic method instead.
Choose Alejandra Salomon when the agency's chosen niche is retention and lifecycle email or SMS for DTC brands, and it wants a collaborator who speaks from inside that function.
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Her posts argue that a churn problem is often an acquisition or product problem in disguise: if one channel, offer, or message produces worse repeat rates, more winback flow will not fix it.
She recommends tagging customers and showing cohorts so the conversation with leadership shifts from "retention can't fix this" to "here is where the behavior starts to change."
A second post lists what email and SMS cannot save — a product that did not match the marketing, slow shipping, a subscription harder to cancel than to start, service that treated the customer as a problem — and concludes that retention is the result of the whole customer experience, not a department.
For an agency that wants proof-point content built on retention diagnostics rather than positioning theory, this is the more specific fit.
Salomon's material addresses retention within lifecycle marketing, not how an agency should choose or defend a niche.
It offers no positioning, brand, or B2B messaging content to borrow.
Her posts are threaded LinkedIn posts with hashtags and cite no figures or client outcomes; ask for measurement evidence if that matters to the brief.
Nick Stagge's writing covers the broader positioning argument and B2B brand voice, while Salomon covers one operational area in more depth.
Choose Mohammad Ashraf when the niche is subscription or DTC commerce and the proof points need to be quantitative.
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Both posts build a diagnostic story around a measurable outcome.
One follows a subscription brand that deepened its discount in stages from 10% to 25% to lift take rate; average order value and first-order lifetime value dropped as expected, but LTV never recovered.
The obvious suspect was the discount, but the actual driver was units per transaction declining independently — so reversing the strategy would have undone something that was working and left the real problem in place.
The second maps a full cancellation journey into four phases with different causes — day 0 to 4 (never really wanted a subscription), day 4 to 18 (canceling over taste after trying it), day 18 to 27 (gave it a real shot, did not feel it working), day 27 to 30 (reminded the next order was coming while product still sat at home) — and reports that rewriting the pre-charge reminder to show value and flexibility lifted retention in that phase by roughly 10 percent without extra spend.
An agency whose niche claim rests on subscription economics and cohort evidence can reuse this pattern directly.
This is a subscription-specific, case-study-shaped fit.
The posts offer numbers and a diagnostic method but little on brand voice, differentiation, or B2B messaging, so they will not help an agency sharpen its voice or answer the "who do you serve" question.
Ask for long-form samples or audience information if either matters to the brief.
Ashraf is the sharper choice for a numbers-led subscription brief; Nick Stagge is the broader fit for positioning and messaging reform.
Nick Stagge has four Substack essays and two short LinkedIn posts, as well as overview, ideas, relationships, similar-creator, and campaign-fit sections.
The essay about starting twenty businesses is complete; the subscription, audience-focus, and B2B brand-voice essays are available only in part and end mid-piece, so their closing arguments are not covered.
The LinkedIn posts are complete and short.
No publication dates appear with the posts; the accounts were observed in October 2026, and a follower count for the LinkedIn account was recorded on October 7, 2026.
Stagge's posts describe businesses they started or were building — The Grounded Company, Honey Headphones, and an early online magazine called Grounded — and an event they promoted with Klaviyo and Commerce Catalyst.
The posts do not say anything about sponsorship, affiliate, or client terms, audience demographics, video work, or any book, show, or earlier body of work, so those remain open questions rather than claims on this page.
Three essays cut off before their conclusions, and no post-level dates are available; both gaps are worth filling before this profile is treated as complete name-search coverage.
