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I broke my own rules
How a revenue-first focus weakened pipeline

On this one client, I broke one of my own rules.
We focused too heavily on the part of the funnel that felt closest to revenue.
It sounded efficient, but it created a problem.
We were capturing demand, not building enough of it.
We leaned too hard on later-stage activity and expected digital assets to do more work than they could.
The result was a pipeline that felt capped too soon.
That mistake stayed with me.
The old way isn’t enough anymore.
It’s one reason I finished a sharper, 48-page EdTech Marketing Playbook.
I’ll send it in my next email.
Cheers,
Rod