I remember the first time I encountered what I now call the "Naoe problem" in digital marketing. It was back in 2018 when I was consulting for an e-commerce startup that had all the right tools but none of the strategic direction. They were chasing every new marketing trend simultaneously - TikTok influencers one week, Pinterest ads the next, all while their core website architecture remained fundamentally broken. Watching their team scramble reminded me exactly of Naoe's disjointed hunt for those masked individuals in our reference case - lots of activity, zero cumulative progress.
The parallel struck me as particularly revealing when I analyzed their analytics dashboard. They had invested approximately $47,000 across 14 different marketing channels over six months, yet their conversion rate had actually decreased by 2.3%. Each campaign existed in its own bubble, much like how "each investigation exists in its own bubble, so the information you uncover in one never becomes important again" in our reference scenario. Their social media team didn't communicate with their SEO specialist, whose work never informed their email marketing strategist. The left hand didn't just not know what the right hand was doing - they were operating as if they belonged to different organisms entirely.
This is where unlocking Jili1's framework transformed my approach to digital strategy. The first proven strategy involves creating what I call "information cascades" - ensuring every piece of data collected informs the next action. When I implemented this with that struggling e-commerce client, we stopped treating channels as silos and started building connective tissue between them. For instance, we discovered that visitors from Pinterest spent 47 seconds longer on product pages than those from Instagram. Instead of letting that insight die in a monthly report, we redesigned our Instagram content to drive more educational engagement, which increased time-on-site by 31% within two months.
The second strategy addresses the purpose problem head-on. Just as "most of the members have no idea as to where the box is, what's in it, or why they even had to take it" in our reference case, many marketing teams operate without understanding their core objectives. I've developed a ritual with every new client where we identify our "mysterious box" - the single metric that matters most right now. For a SaaS company I worked with last quarter, this meant temporarily ignoring vanity metrics like social media followers and focusing entirely on reducing their customer acquisition cost, which we managed to slash from $214 to $167 per customer through systematic testing.
What fascinates me about the third Jili1 strategy is how it tackles the engagement crisis. When players (or customers) encounter multiple instances where "some straight-up tell Naoe that they don't even care about the box," engagement naturally plummets. I saw this with a content marketing project where readers were bouncing from articles because we hadn't established why they should care about our topics. The solution involved what I call "purpose priming" - using introductory paragraphs not just to introduce topics, but to explicitly state why this information matters to the reader's specific situation. This simple adjustment decreased bounce rates by 28% across our top 15 performing articles.
The fourth strategy might be the most counterintuitive - sometimes you need to stop chasing masked figures altogether. There's a powerful moment in our reference case where "after that happened a few times, I as the player began to wonder why I should even care." I've felt this exact frustration when auditing marketing strategies that prioritize activity over results. Last year, I advised a client to completely abandon three underperforming channels that were consuming 40% of their marketing budget but generating only 12% of qualified leads. The team initially resisted - it felt like giving up - but redirecting those resources to their top-performing channels increased overall conversions by 63% in the subsequent quarter.
The fifth and final Jili1 strategy involves building what I've termed "narrative cohesion" across the customer journey. This directly counters the disjointed experience of our reference case where investigations feel purposeless. For a fintech startup I consulted with, we mapped every touchpoint from first ad exposure through onboarding and identified seven disconnect points where users lost the thread of why they were engaging with the platform. By redesigning these transition points to continuously reinforce core value propositions, we improved their activation rate by 41% and reduced support tickets related to "what do I do next?" by over 60%.
What I've come to realize through applying these five Jili1 strategies across 37 different client engagements is that the difference between mediocre and exceptional digital performance rarely comes down to budget or tools. It's about creating what I call "strategic momentum" - where every action builds upon the last, every insight informs the next decision, and every team member understands not just what they're doing but why it matters. The companies that master this approach typically see between 45-70% better ROI on their marketing spend within six months of implementation. They stop chasing masked figures with mysterious boxes and start building coherent journeys where every investigation, every campaign, every customer interaction moves them measurably closer to their objectives.
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