{"id":264,"date":"2025-09-30T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/from-ashes-to-flames\/?p=264"},"modified":"2026-06-25T21:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:54:31","slug":"focus-on-done-not-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/from-ashes-to-flames\/focus-on-done-not-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Done, Not Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s easy to want to make sure that every marketing strategy you do is shiny and perfect from the start. I mean why even bother doing anything if you\u2019re not going to do it right the first time, right? Let\u2019s discuss why this isn\u2019t always the best method.<a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@ryannezender\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For me, this one hits hard. As a perfectionist, I struggle with starting anything that I know I won\u2019t be able to finish perfectly. But with marketing things are rarely (if ever!) so perfect at implementation that they never need to be updated or tweaked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A large part of marketing is analyzing the data from your strategies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For social media, this can come in the form of number of views\/impressions, number of likes, number of comments, total amount of time your videos were watched, when people stopped watching your videos, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For your websites, this can be number of page views, number of unique visitors, average session length, bounce rate, conversion rate, traffic sources, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For your business in general, comparing the total number of sales during specific time ranges, return on investment, lead generation, retention and churn rate, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could go on and on about the different types of data that marketers collect, but the point I\u2019m making today is that without actually implementing that marketing strategy you\u2019ve been working on, you won\u2019t have any data to collect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I read somewhere once (wish I could remember exactly where) that \u201canything worth doing, is worth doing poorly.\u201d The idea here is that anything that\u2019s worth getting done, is worth doing even if it\u2019s not perfect. Don\u2019t have time to brush your teeth for the recommended 2 minutes? Brushing for 30 seconds is better than not brushing at all. Can\u2019t make yourself a 5-star breakfast every morning? Grabbing a quick breakfast burrito is better than starving yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This same thought process applies to marketing too. A quick unedited reel about what goes on behind the scenes in your business is better than spending so long trying to make a perfect reel that it never gets done. 10 daily thrown together image posts are better than 1 perfect image that takes you two weeks to finish. A website with short descriptions for your products with quick links to purchase them that goes up tomorrow is better than waiting 3 months while you write the perfect sales copy for a landing page for each one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, I\u2019m not saying never write those awesome landing pages, just that getting something workable up now while you\u2019re writing is better than having nothing at all. Marketing is all about adapting what you\u2019re doing to make it better. You can make things perfect as you go, but you can\u2019t do this if you don\u2019t even have a starting point yet. Perfection takes time and you can always be working towards it, but don\u2019t let a fear of failing stop you from doing anything at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So stop worrying so much about getting it exactly right the first time. Just get something solid done and out in the world so that you can analyze what parts of it work well and what needs to be done better. Then you\u2019ll be able to fix things as you go until you\u2019ve got an absolute masterpiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the best,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-neve-link-hover-color-color has-text-color has-link-color has-large-font-size wp-elements-4a29c1739469dbfd50be077dd73b3365\">Ryanne Zender<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-neve-link-color-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-neve-link-color-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong>\u00a0While marketing is based in part on statistics and psychology, it is not an exact science. Every business and market are unique. What may work for one business, will not necessarily work for another. There are no guarantees in marketing, and this post is for informational and educational purposes only and does not replace professional advice. You can check out the full list of disclaimers and disclosures\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/disclaimersanddisclosures.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/disclaimersanddisclosures.html\">here<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-neve-link-color-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-neve-link-color-background-color has-background is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/from-ashes-to-flames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DoesntHavetobePerfect-PIN-683x1024.png\" alt=\"Your marketing doesn't have to be perfect to be effective is written on white overlays with an arrow next to it on top of an image of two women analyzing a wall of data.\" class=\"wp-image-265\" style=\"width:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/from-ashes-to-flames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DoesntHavetobePerfect-PIN-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/from-ashes-to-flames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DoesntHavetobePerfect-PIN-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/from-ashes-to-flames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DoesntHavetobePerfect-PIN-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/from-ashes-to-flames\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DoesntHavetobePerfect-PIN.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s easy to want to make sure that every marketing strategy you do is shiny and perfect from the start. I mean why even bother doing anything if you\u2019re not going to do it right the first time, right? Let\u2019s discuss why this isn\u2019t always the best method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-affordable-marketing","category-small-business-marketing","category-social-media-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/from-ashes-to-flames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/from-ashes-to-flames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/from-ashes-to-flames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/from-ashes-to-flames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/from-ashes-to-flames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/from-ashes-to-flames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/from-ashes-to-flames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/from-ashes-to-flames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/from-ashes-to-flames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/from-ashes-to-flames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyrbyrddesigns.com\/from-ashes-to-flames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}