<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Ozgur Taskaya]]></title><description><![CDATA[just some fragments on whatever I am thinking about]]></description><link>https://www.ozgurtaskaya.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rKn9!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa111c5c5-82a6-4a00-822f-35e03d4beecd_512x512.png</url><title>Ozgur Taskaya</title><link>https://www.ozgurtaskaya.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:21:55 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.ozgurtaskaya.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Ozgur Taskaya]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[ozgurtaskaya@gmail.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[ozgurtaskaya@gmail.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Ozgur Taskaya]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Ozgur Taskaya]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[ozgurtaskaya@gmail.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[ozgurtaskaya@gmail.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Ozgur Taskaya]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[The Website Paradox: Why Less Traffic Means You Need to Invest More]]></title><description><![CDATA[During the last two weeks, a couple of friends asked me the same question independently.]]></description><link>https://www.ozgurtaskaya.com/p/the-website-paradox-why-less-traffic</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.ozgurtaskaya.com/p/the-website-paradox-why-less-traffic</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ozgur Taskaya]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:23:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c1db!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7f61d9d-4476-48bb-b9ab-5c194f17b996_1354x870.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>During the last two weeks, a couple of friends asked me the same question independently. Should they still be investing in our website? Their logic was reasonable. If AI chatbots are absorbing more and more queries, fewer people will visit their company sites. Data already proves it. So why invest money into it? Shouldn&#8217;t they rather redirect that budget toward showing up in ChatGPT and Gemini results.</p><p>I believe this framing is completely wrong and I explain why.</p><p><strong>The traffic that disappears and the traffic that remains</strong></p><p>Website traffic in B2B is not a monolith. We often treat it like one number on a dashboard but it&#8217;s actually two very different behaviors.</p><p>There&#8217;s informational traffic. Someone types &#8220;what is predictive maintenance&#8221; or &#8220;ERP vs CRM comparison&#8221; into Google, lands on your blog post, skims for 40 seconds and bounces. This traffic is dying fast. AI chatbots answers these questions instantly now. That blog post has likely lost its economic reason to exist. I don&#8217;t think this traffic is coming back and honestly I&#8217;m not sure it is something to regret. It was never that valuable to begin with. We were just used to counting it.</p><p>Then there&#8217;s the traffic that actually matters. A procurement lead comparing three vendors for a seven figure contract. An engineer looking into your technical specs and compatibility docs. A VP trying to understand your platform architecture before greenlighting a pilot. This traffic still goes to your website because it has to. You can&#8217;t close a complex B2B deal inside ChatGPT. The buyer needs your product catalog, your pricing structure, your compliance documentation, your configurators. AI can summarize what you do in a paragraph. It can&#8217;t replace the experience of actually engaging with what you sell. At least not for now.</p><p>So what&#8217;s actually happening? The first type of traffic is collapsing. The second is holding steady and maybe even growing a bit because AI is getting better at qualifying buyers and routing them toward relevant vendors. And what happens as a result is that total visits go down but average value per visit goes up. I see some people panicking at the fact that the number of sessions drop but deeper look into the data should tell a different story with conversion rates increasing. Your websites is getting rid of the least valuable visitors and still keeping the ones that generate the revenue.</p><p><strong>The expectation transfer problem</strong></p><p>But here&#8217;s the part I think people are missing. Your buyers use ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity every day now. They ask complex questions and get intelligent, personalized, conversational answers in seconds. Whether they realize it or not, they are developing new baseline expectations for what any digital interaction should feel like. An interaction that is fast and contextual. It remembers what you just said two sentences ago.</p><p>And then those same people visit your website. Static hero banner that doesn&#8217;t mean anything for them. A chatbot that goes &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, I can&#8217;t help you with that.&#8221; A lead form asking for job title, company size, country, phone number and your blood type. Almost.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.ozgurtaskaya.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>The gap between what they just experienced on ChatGPT or Gemini and what they&#8217;re now experiencing on your site is enormous. And it gets wider every quarter because the AI tools keep improving fast while most B2B websites stay roughly the same.</p><p>This is what I call <strong>expectation transfer effect</strong>. External AI tools are continuously raising the bar for every branded digital experience. Of course nobody sits there thinking &#8220;this website is worse than ChatGPT.&#8221; But that comparison seems to be happening subconsciously every time someone interacts with a digital interface that feels stupid right after spending few minutes with one that felt really smart.</p><p>The real threat here is subtle. It is not that fewer people visit your site. The thread is that when they end up visiting, at the exact moment they&#8217;re evaluating you as a potential vendor, your site feels like it belongs to 2018. In B2B that moment is worth thousands, sometimes millions in pipeline. Losing it because your website feels outdated compared to a tool that&#8217;s free to use is a very expensive mistake.</p><p><strong>The false choice</strong></p><p>&#8220;Should we invest in our website or in AI visibility?&#8221;</p><p>I keep hearing this framed as an either/or question and it drives me a little crazy. These aren&#8217;t two budget items competing with each other. They are the same bucket.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c1db!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7f61d9d-4476-48bb-b9ab-5c194f17b996_1354x870.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c1db!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7f61d9d-4476-48bb-b9ab-5c194f17b996_1354x870.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c1db!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7f61d9d-4476-48bb-b9ab-5c194f17b996_1354x870.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c1db!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7f61d9d-4476-48bb-b9ab-5c194f17b996_1354x870.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c1db!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7f61d9d-4476-48bb-b9ab-5c194f17b996_1354x870.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c1db!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7f61d9d-4476-48bb-b9ab-5c194f17b996_1354x870.heic" width="1354" height="870" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a7f61d9d-4476-48bb-b9ab-5c194f17b996_1354x870.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:870,&quot;width&quot;:1354,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:38590,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;website ai flywheel&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.ozgurtaskaya.com/i/194114802?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7f61d9d-4476-48bb-b9ab-5c194f17b996_1354x870.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="website ai flywheel" title="website ai flywheel" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c1db!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7f61d9d-4476-48bb-b9ab-5c194f17b996_1354x870.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c1db!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7f61d9d-4476-48bb-b9ab-5c194f17b996_1354x870.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c1db!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7f61d9d-4476-48bb-b9ab-5c194f17b996_1354x870.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c1db!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7f61d9d-4476-48bb-b9ab-5c194f17b996_1354x870.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Think about how AI chatbots decide what to recommend. They pull from web content. They parse your site structure, your product pages, your documentation, your schema markup. A well maintained website with rich, structured content is exactly what makes you visible to AI chatbots. Neglect your website and you not only lose human visitors but you also become invisible to AI. Or worse, AI starts misrepresenting what you actually do because it is working with stale information.</p><p>The whole thing is a loop. Better website content feeds AI systems with accurate product information. AI systems recommend you to relevant buyers. Those buyers visit your site with real intent. Your site converts them. Revenue justifies more website investment. Cut the website budget and you break this loop at the worst possible point.</p><p>Look at Salesforce. Their website is massive. Thousands of pages of product documentation, comparison content, use case libraries, deeply structured and constantly updated. It is one of the main reasons why Salesforce is one of the most recommended CRM platforms when you ask any AI chatbot. The website feeds the machine.</p><p><strong>What &#8220;investing in the website&#8221; actually means now</strong></p><p>I want to be specific here because &#8220;invest in the website&#8221; is a vague phrase and most of the traditional playbook is probably wrong for this moment.</p><p>Publishing 20 blog posts a month to capture long tail SEO traffic? That was a valid strategy in 2019. In 2026, for most B2B companies, it is likely a waste of money. The informational layer is being absorbed by AI.  The investment that actually matters is in three areas and they&#8217;re quite different from where most companies are spending today.</p><p>First, conversational intelligence on your own domain. When a buyer shows up after chatting with ChatGPT all day, they want to ask questions and get real answers. A well built conversational layer trained on your actual product data, pricing logic, and technical docs can do something ChatGPT genuinely cannot: give answers that are specific to your business, your current inventory, your regional availability, your compliance certifications. ChatGPT knows what you do in general terms. Your own AI should know what you can do for this specific customer right now. This is a meaningful difference.</p><p>Second, machine legibility. Your site needs to be readable by AI agents, not just by humans scrolling with a mouse. Structured data, clean taxonomy, consistent product schemas, well organized technical content. In the old world your site needed to be navigatable, meaning a person could click through menus and find things. In the new world it needs to be parsable, meaning an AI agent can pull specific data points programmatically. The companies that structure their digital presence for machine consumption are the ones that AI will recommend accurately. Everyone else gets summarized wrong or skipped altogether.</p><p>Third, experience quality at the conversion layer. If total traffic drops by 40% but the remaining visitors have twice the purchase intent, your conversion experience becomes disproportionately important. Product configurators, pricing tools, demo environments, spec sheets. This is where B2B deals actually get won or lost. A buyer who made it through the AI filtering layer and landed on your site is probably ready to engage seriously. If that experience is clunky or slow or feels generic, you are losing the highest value visitors at the highest value moment.</p><p><strong>The real risk of pulling back</strong></p><p>Let me walk through what actually happens when a B2B company decides to cut website investment and put that money into external &#8220;AI strategy&#8221;.</p><p>The website starts aging. Content gets stale. Product pages fall out of sync with actual offerings. Technical docs stop getting updated. The chatbot, if there was one, keeps serving outdated information. Structured data degrades quietly.</p><p>AI systems are constantly recrawling and re evaluating their sources. They notice. Your content becomes less current, less detailed, less structured than your competitors. Your share of AI recommendations starts to slip gradually. You lose recommendations you don&#8217;t even see because they happen inside someone else&#8217;s ChatGPT session.</p><p>The buyers who do still visit your site find something that feels abandoned. They compare it, probably without even thinking about it consciously, to the competitor whose site feels current and sharp. In B2B, trust is everything. A website that looks neglected raises an uncomfortable question in the buyer&#8217;s mind: if they don&#8217;t invest in their own digital presence, how much will they invest in supporting me as a customer?</p><p>I think this is the most overlooked risk in the entire debate. The website isn&#8217;t just a marketing channel. It is a trust signal. And in a world where AI pre filters options for the buyer, you get evaluated maybe two or three times instead of ten. Each of those evaluations carries more weight than it ever did before.</p><p><strong>The compression principle</strong></p><p>The utility web is compressing. I&#8217;ve written about this before in the context of <a href="https://www.ozgurtaskaya.com/p/dopamine-web-utility-web">Dopamine Web versus Utility Web</a>. Fewer interactions overall but each one packed with more intent and consequence. B2B websites sit at the exact point where AI delegation ends and human decision making begins. The buyer used AI to research, filter, shortlist. Now they&#8217;re on your site. This is the handoff moment.</p><p>That moment is becoming the most valuable point in the entire B2B buying journey. Everything around it is getting cheaper because AI handles research at near zero marginal cost. But this specific moment is getting more expensive because fewer visits means each visit carries more revenue potential.</p><p>The right response is to make the destination where this moment happens as good as it can possibly be. Raise the experience to match the expectations that AI tools have set. Invest in conversion quality, machine legibility, conversational intelligence.</p><p>Your website is shifting from a traffic asset to a conversion asset. I am thinking more and more that the metric that matters now is <strong>revenue per session</strong>. And for the companies that understand what&#8217;s actually going on, that number is about to go way up.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.ozgurtaskaya.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Web Is Splitting: Dopamine Thrives, Utility Rebundles]]></title><description><![CDATA[For a couple of decades, we treated the web as kind of a single product because it lived in a single interface: the browser.]]></description><link>https://www.ozgurtaskaya.com/p/dopamine-web-utility-web</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.ozgurtaskaya.com/p/dopamine-web-utility-web</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ozgur Taskaya]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:24:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rKn9!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa111c5c5-82a6-4a00-822f-35e03d4beecd_512x512.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For a couple of decades, we treated the web as kind of a single product because it lived in a single interface: the browser. This interface bundled together two different functions, which felt unified because we accessed them the same way. That bundling is now ending. </p><p>What is breaking apart is not the web itself but the functions it served. One function was experiential: stimulation, emotion, identity, status. The other function was instrumental: answers, decisions, transactions. They coexisted together on the same pages, financed by same ad models and navigated with same clicks. </p><p>Now they are separating, each moving towards to the interface that suit it the best. They are <em>Dopamine Web</em> and <em>Utility Web</em>. </p><p><strong>Dopamine Web</strong></p><p>This is the experiential one, designed to entertain, outrage and to keep us addicted. This is where we scroll Instagram Reels and TikTok, watch YouTube, check X. This is about time spent, emotional response and habit formation.  AI isn&#8217;t replacing dopamine web because we cannot automate the feeling of being entertained. This is being unbundled from the browser and distributed through native apps. Its incentives remain unchanged. Actually AI makes them even stronger by improving recommendation, personalisation and content supply. This part of the internet is alive and well. </p><p><strong>Utility Web</strong></p><p>This is part of the internet we use to get something done. We search, compare, read reviews, learn to fix things, book trips and buy stuff. Historically we navigated this web ourselves. We clicked links, scanned pages and tolerated banner ads and seo filler content as a tax on efficiency. This interface is dying. Not the data or services but the navigation. Thanks to AI chatbots and now AI agents, utility web is collapsing into the systems which now stand between the user and everything else.</p><p>The fundamental shift is not that AI is smarter but that AI doesn&#8217;t need to browse like we do. When you ask an agent to find a camera, it doesn&#8217;t visit a website in the same way we do. It ignores the banner ad, newsletter popups, emotional hooks. It queries, filters and selects.  </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.ozgurtaskaya.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p><strong>Collapse of the Middle</strong></p><p>This causes the Utility Web to collapse into, and to be rebundled within, a conversational or agentic interface. What used to be distributed across millions of sites gets recomposed into a single interaction layer. You do not visit ten different sites. You ask one system. You do not need to compare five options. You receive one recommendation that fit your unique circumstances the best. You do not generate impressions, you generate intent. This also changes what optimisation means. In this new utility web, SEO stops being mainly about persuasive, informational content written for humans and it becomes about machine legibility. Sites will increasingly exist to influence agents rather than humans.  </p><p>This does not apply equally to everything. High risk decisions, regulated categories, and complex B2B purchases will likely retain human inspection and multi step evaluation. But for a large portion of everyday utility, the direction is clear. Navigation will disappear.<br><br>Therefore <em>the impression</em>, the atomic unit of commercial internet, loses relevance for majority of internet. This is a catastrophe for informational middle class; the blogs, review sites, niche publishers that all relied on human traffic. </p><p><strong>Concentration of Power</strong></p><p>As navigation disappears and utility rebundles inside a single interface, power concentrates.  The Utility Web stops being a distributed network of destinations and becomes a narrow bottleneck of intent. Those controlling the recommendation layer control the power. <strong>Google</strong> and <strong>OpenAI</strong> are the obvious frontrunners here. Google is especially super well positioned to win. They are uniquely positioned to capture value from both sides of the split. Gemini defends their ownership of the Utility Web (the answer), while YouTube continues to remain one of the leaders of the Dopamine Web (the distraction). Google captures you whether you are working or wasting time. </p><p>Another player can still profit from both sides of the spectrum in different ways. Meta, which is already dominant in attention, is incentivised to integrate utility directly into its ecosystem. Meta owns the most valuable real estate on the Dopamine Web, that is Instagram. They are now realizing that utility doesn&#8217;t need to be a destination; it can be a layer. As their AI improves, you won&#8217;t need to leave Instagram to book a table or buy a shirt. The Utility Web will get absorbed into the feed and the friction of leaving the app will disappear. They will try to turn experienced attention into actionable intent, keeping the user in the app. </p><p>The Utility Web isn&#8217;t dying per se, it is becoming invisible or rather visible through another form, in a much less complicated and more compact interface. Websites will still exist, just as databases exist, but humans won&#8217;t visit them or at least not as much.</p><p>In a world without navigation, <strong>traffic</strong> is replaced by <strong>placement</strong> as the primary unit of value. Visibility inside the inference layer matters more than page views ever did. In such a world only two things compound: </p><p><strong>Brand Awareness</strong>: do people know you exist?</p><p><strong>Inference Preference</strong>: does AI choose you as the best answer?</p><p>More broadly, this changes how choice itself works. The open web trained users to deal with abundance of options through exploration and comparison. The agentic web trains them to delegate exploration and comparison entirely. What disappears is not information, but exposure. The chance to discover things and the freedom to be inefficient. As navigation disappears, the web gets compressed. Power concentrates around inference. In this system, being the primary answer is no longer a big advantage; it is the minimum requirement to exist.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.ozgurtaskaya.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ekşi Sözlük Örneği Üzerinden Growth Loops]]></title><description><![CDATA[Huniler ve B&#252;y&#252;me D&#246;ng&#252;leri]]></description><link>https://www.ozgurtaskaya.com/p/eksi-sozluk-ornegi-uzerinden-growth-loops</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.ozgurtaskaya.com/p/eksi-sozluk-ornegi-uzerinden-growth-loops</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ozgur Taskaya]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2020 20:10:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R8GC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77f3844f-f304-4549-9a45-d4275ddb571c_1536x992.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Skyscanner&#8217;&#305;n Edinburgh&#8217;daki growth ekibinde &#231;al&#305;&#351;maya ba&#351;lad&#305;&#287;&#305;mda &#246;nceden takip etti&#287;im baz&#305; de&#287;erli isimler daha da &#246;nem kazanm&#305;&#351;t&#305;: Andrew Chen, Brian Balfour, Eric Ries ve Sean Ellis. Rol&#252;m growth hacking testleri y&#252;r&#252;tmekten Edinburgh ve Londra&#8217;da ekip y&#246;netmeye kayd&#305;k&#231;a Brian Balfour&#8217;un growth modellemeleri daha &#231;ok ilgimi &#231;ekmeye ba&#351;lad&#305;. Kendisinin Silikon Vadisi&#8217;nin en &#246;nemli growth uzmanlar&#305;n&#305;n kat&#305;l&#305;m&#305;yla d&#252;zenledi&#287;i&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reforge.com/advanced-growth-strategy-series">Reforge kursu</a>&nbsp;bu alanda kendimi geli&#351;tirmeme epey faydal&#305; oldu. Bu yaz&#305;da Brian Balfour&#8217;un izinden giderek uzun y&#305;llard&#305;r kullan&#305;lan pazarlama hunisinin (marketing funnel) yerini neden b&#252;y&#252;me d&#246;ng&#252;s&#252;ne (growth loop) b&#305;rakt&#305;&#287;&#305;n&#305; a&#231;&#305;klamaya &#231;al&#305;&#351;&#305;p ard&#305;ndan Ek&#351;i S&#246;zl&#252;k &#252;zerinden bir b&#252;y&#252;me d&#246;ng&#252;s&#252; &#246;rne&#287;i verece&#287;im.</p><h2><strong>Marketing Funnel (Pazarlama Hunisi)</strong></h2><p>&#214;ncelikle neden huni veya d&#246;ng&#252; gibi kavramlar&#305; kulland&#305;&#287;&#305;m&#305;z&#305; a&#231;&#305;klamak gerekiyor. Her ikisi de bir &#252;r&#252;n&#252;n, dolay&#305;s&#305;yla &#351;irketin, nas&#305;l b&#252;y&#252;d&#252;&#287;&#252;n&#252; anlatan modeller. Bu sorunun uzun bir s&#252;re yan&#305;t&#305;n&#305; halen &#231;o&#287;u startup&#305;n kulland&#305;&#287;&#305; Dave McClure taraf&#305;ndan yarat&#305;lan AARRR isimli huni modeli vermi&#351;ti. Ortamlarda buna pirate metrics (korsan metrikleri) dendi&#287;i de olur.</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R8GC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77f3844f-f304-4549-9a45-d4275ddb571c_1536x992.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R8GC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77f3844f-f304-4549-9a45-d4275ddb571c_1536x992.png 424w, 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R8GC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77f3844f-f304-4549-9a45-d4275ddb571c_1536x992.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>G&#252;n&#252;m&#252;zde AARRR huni modeli ile ilgili sorunlardan birisi her bir ad&#305;m&#305; birbirinden izole &#246;ng&#246;rmesi, daha do&#287;rusu pratikte bu &#351;ekilde uygulanmas&#305;d&#305;r. Acquisition, Activation ve Retention diye farkl&#305; ekipleri olan ve bu ekiplerin birbirinden ba&#287;&#305;ms&#305;z hareket etti&#287;i growth departmanlar&#305; g&#246;rd&#252; bu g&#246;zler. Daha da yayg&#305;n olarak pazarlama ekibinin acquisitiondan, &#252;r&#252;n ekibinin retentiondan ve sat&#305;&#351; ekibinin de revenuedan sorumlu olmas&#305; maalesef &#231;o&#287;u yerde g&#246;rd&#252;&#287;&#252;m&#252;z bir sorun. Bunlar&#305; birbirinden izole d&#252;&#351;&#252;nmek ba&#351;ar&#305;s&#305;zl&#305;&#287;a yol a&#231;mak demektir.</p><p>Genelde g&#246;rd&#252;&#287;&#252;m&#252;z sorunlardan birisi &#252;r&#252;n ekibinin &#252;r&#252;n&#252; ortaya &#231;&#305;karmas&#305; ve ard&#305;ndan pazarlama ekibinden bu &#252;r&#252;ne farkl&#305; kanallar ile trafik sa&#287;lamas&#305;n&#305;n beklenmesi. Unutulan nokta pazarlama ekibinin kanallar&#305; &#252;r&#252;ne g&#246;re &#351;ekillendirmesinin m&#252;mk&#252;n olmamas&#305;d&#305;r. Bu nedenle daha tasar&#305;m a&#351;amas&#305;nda mevcut pazarlama kanallar&#305;na uygun bir &#351;ekilde ele al&#305;nmal&#305;d&#305;r. Bu nedenle &#252;r&#252;n geli&#351;tirme, strateji ve pazarlama ekipleri birbirinden ba&#287;&#305;ms&#305;z ekipler gibi d&#252;&#351;&#252;n&#252;lemez. &#220;r&#252;n&#252; bir geli&#351;tirelim de sonra bir dijital pazarlama veya growth uzman&#305; al&#305;r&#305;z yakla&#351;&#305;m&#305; &#351;ansl&#305; de&#287;ilseniz kaybetmeye mahkumdur.</p><h2>Growth Loops (B&#252;y&#252;me D&#246;ng&#252;leri)</h2><p>G&#252;n&#252;m&#252;zde h&#305;zl&#305; b&#252;y&#252;yen startuplara bakt&#305;&#287;&#305;m&#305;zda bunlar&#305;n art&#305;k huniden ziyade&nbsp;<strong>s&#252;rd&#252;r&#252;lebilir</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>tekrarlanabilir</strong>&nbsp;ve&nbsp;<strong>sistematik</strong>&nbsp;b&#252;y&#252;me d&#246;ng&#252;lerinden olu&#351;tu&#287;unu g&#246;r&#252;yoruz.</p><p>B&#252;y&#252;me, &#252;&#231; temel &#231;al&#305;&#351;man&#305;n sonucunda olu&#351;an bir &#231;&#305;kt&#305;d&#305;r:</p><ol><li><p>Retention: M&#252;&#351;teriyi elde tutmak</p></li><li><p>Acquisition: Yeni m&#252;&#351;teri kazanmak</p></li><li><p>Monetization: M&#252;&#351;terilerden para kazanmak</p></li></ol><p>Retention belki da buradaki en &#246;nemli unsur &#231;&#252;nk&#252; m&#252;&#351;terileri elinizde tuttuk&#231;a acquisition &#231;ok daha iyi &#231;al&#305;&#351;acak. Retention sayesinde LTV (life time value = m&#252;&#351;terinin &#252;r&#252;n&#252;n&#252;z&#252; kulland&#305;&#287;&#305; s&#252;rece getirdi&#287;i toplam gelir) de artaca&#287;&#305; i&#231;in yeni m&#252;&#351;teri elde etmek i&#231;in harcad&#305;&#287;&#305;n&#305;z para bo&#351;a gitmemi&#351; olacak. Ve bu da daha fazla m&#252;&#351;teriden para kazanabilece&#287;iniz anlam&#305;na geliyor.</p><blockquote><p>Huni modelinde s&#252;rekli farkl&#305; kanallar ve taktikler ile para yakarak kullan&#305;c&#305; getirmeye &#231;al&#305;&#351;&#305;rken d&#246;ng&#252; modelinde ise getirdi&#287;imiz kullan&#305;c&#305;lar bize nas&#305;l yeni kullan&#305;c&#305;lar kazand&#305;rabilir konusu &#246;n plana &#231;&#305;k&#305;yor.</p></blockquote><p>Bile&#351;ik faiz gibi d&#252;&#351;&#252;n&#252;n. Faizden kazand&#305;&#287;&#305;n&#305;z paran&#305;n ana paran&#305;n &#252;zerine eklenmesiyle onun da &#252;zerinden faiz kazanmak gibi bir nevi. Ek&#351;i S&#246;zl&#252;k&#8217;&#252; ele alal&#305;m:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r0FT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F278bdd6f-ea20-4aa5-a25a-6b1fbef63976_1320x776.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r0FT!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F278bdd6f-ea20-4aa5-a25a-6b1fbef63976_1320x776.png 424w, 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B&#246;ylece bir d&#246;ng&#252;deki &#231;&#305;kt&#305;y&#305; sonraki d&#246;ng&#252;ye aktararak s&#252;rekli artan bir pozitif etki yaratabilirsiniz. Burada dikkat edilmesi gereken unsur h&#305;zl&#305; b&#252;y&#252;yen &#252;r&#252;nlerin onlarca d&#246;ng&#252;ye de&#287;il, &#231;ok iyi &#231;al&#305;&#351;an yaln&#305;zca 1-2 b&#252;y&#252;me d&#246;ng&#252;s&#252;ne sahip olu&#351;udur. Ek&#351;i S&#246;zl&#252;k &#246;rne&#287;inde hepinizin bildi&#287;i gibi arama motorundaki dominasyon ve yeni i&#231;eri&#287;in h&#305;zl&#305; bir &#351;ekilde endekslenip &#231;ok iyi bir SERP s&#305;ralamas&#305; elde etmesi &#231;ark&#305; d&#246;nd&#252;r&#252;yor.</p><p>Ek&#351;i S&#246;zl&#252;k&#8217;&#252;n olu&#351;turdu&#287;u bu d&#246;ng&#252; UGC loop (user generated content) denilen bir alt b&#252;y&#252;me d&#246;ng&#252;s&#252; grubuna ait. Yani kullan&#305;c&#305;lar taraf&#305;ndan &#252;retilen i&#231;erik sayesinde yeni kullan&#305;c&#305;lar elde ediyorlar. Bunun d&#305;&#351;&#305;nda viral loop, paid loop, sales loop gibi farkl&#305; d&#246;ng&#252;ler de var. &#214;rne&#287;in Dropbox viral d&#246;ng&#252;y&#252; &#231;ok iyi kullanan &#351;irketlerden birisi. Dropbox&#8217;a &#252;ye oldu&#287;unuzda size &#252;cretsiz verilen depolama alan&#305;n&#305;z&#305; arkada&#351;lar&#305;n&#305;z&#305; davet ederek geni&#351;letebiliyorsunuz. Davet etti&#287;iniz arkada&#351;lar&#305;n&#305;z&#305;n da bir k&#305;sm&#305; kendi arkada&#351;lar&#305;n&#305; davet edecek ve viral d&#246;ng&#252; bu &#351;ekilde bile&#351;ik faiz gibi b&#252;y&#252;yerek katlanacak.</p><p>Ek&#351;i S&#246;zl&#252;k&#8217;e geri d&#246;nelim. Daha &#246;nce bahsetti&#287;imiz acquisition ve retention hunideki gibi izole d&#252;&#351;&#252;n&#252;lm&#252;yor, aksine bunlar d&#246;ng&#252;y&#252; olu&#351;turabilmek i&#231;in &#252;r&#252;n&#252;n i&#231;ine yedirilmi&#351; durumda. A&#231;&#305;klayal&#305;m:</p><ol><li><p>Acquisition: Ek&#351;i S&#246;zl&#252;k i&#231;in kritik &#246;neme sahip acquisition kanal&#305;&nbsp;<a href="https://gritist.com/seo-bilmeniz-gereken-17-madde-2020/">organik trafik</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.similarweb.com/website/eksisozluk.com">Similarweb</a>&nbsp;verilerine bakarsak Ek&#351;i S&#246;zl&#252;k&#8217;&#252;n toplam trafi&#287;inin %41&#8217;inin arama moturundan geldi&#287;ini g&#246;rece&#287;iz. %51 ise direk siteye gelen trafik. Site bilinirli&#287;inin bu kadar fazla olmad&#305;&#287;&#305; zamanlarda organik trafi&#287;in &#351;u ankinden &#231;ok daha y&#252;ksek oldu&#287;unu tahmin edebiliriz. Organik trafi&#287;in bu &#351;ekilde y&#252;ksek olmas&#305;n&#305;n sebebi ise &#252;r&#252;n&#252;n buna uygun &#351;ekilde tasarlanmas&#305; ve geli&#351;tirilmesi. Basit bir UI, iyi bir UX, h&#305;zl&#305; bir site ve kullan&#305;c&#305;lar taraf&#305;ndan d&#252;zenli &#252;retilen i&#231;erik (UGC) buna yol a&#231;an fakt&#246;rlerden.</p></li><li><p>Retention: Ek&#351;i S&#246;zl&#252;k&#8217;te yazar olmak istedi&#287;inizde &#246;nce &#8220;dur karde&#351; &#246;yle acele yok, sen bir 10 entry gir bir &#231;aylak ol, sonra biraz da bekle&#8221; diyorlar. Bu da &#246;zel bir camia havas&#305; kat&#305;yor s&#246;zl&#252;&#287;e. Herkesin giremedi&#287;i, girenlerin de aylarca belki y&#305;llarca bekledikten sonra ancak dahil olabildi&#287;i, ortamlarda gururla &#252;yesi oldu&#287;unuzu s&#246;yleyebilece&#287;iniz bir topluluk. &#199;aylakken s&#246;zl&#252;&#287;e ne kadar s&#305;k girer ve katk&#305; yaparsan&#305;z s&#305;ralamadaki yeriniz ona g&#246;re &#246;ne de&#287;i&#351;iyor. Bu da siteye d&#252;zenli olarak gelmenize yol a&#231;&#305;yor. &#304;nsanlar&#305;n aidiyet gereksinimlerini kullanan bu yap&#305; retention konusunu &#231;&#246;z&#252;yor. Ayr&#305;ca acquisition sayesinde arama motorunda iyi bir g&#246;r&#252;n&#252;rl&#252;k elde etmesi de siz bir konuda arama yaparken kendinizi bir anda s&#246;zl&#252;kte bulman&#305;za yol a&#231;abiliyor.</p></li><li><p>Monetization: Ek&#351;i S&#246;zl&#252;k &#8220;&#252;r&#252;n bedavaysa as&#305;l &#252;r&#252;n sizsiniz&#8221; mottosuyla tamamen &#252;cretsiz bir hizmet vererek reklamdan para kazan&#305;yor. Bu da &#252;r&#252;n&#252;n i&#231;ine yedirilmi&#351; durumda. Klasik Adsense banner reklamlar&#305;n&#305;n yan&#305; s&#305;ra s&#246;zl&#252;k i&#231;erisinde ba&#351;l&#305;klar aras&#305;nda native &#351;ekilde yer alan reklamlar da gelir kaynaklar&#305; aras&#305;nda yer al&#305;yor. Yine &#351;ehir ve &#252;lke ba&#351;l&#305;klar&#305;na girildi&#287;indr &#231;&#305;kan Enuygun &#351;irketinin u&#231;ak bileti reklamlar&#305; gibi farkl&#305; reklam modelleri de mevcut.</p></li></ol><p>K&#305;saca:</p><blockquote><p>daha &#231;ok yazar = daha &#231;ok i&#231;erik = daha fazla endekslenen sayfa = daha fazla okuyucu/yazar = daha fazla reklam geliri</p></blockquote><p>B&#252;y&#252;me d&#246;ng&#252;lerinin ba&#351;ar&#305;s&#305;n&#305; analiz etmek i&#231;in bunlar&#305; kantitatif bir &#231;er&#231;evede ele almak gerekiyor. Bu da ba&#351;ka bir yaz&#305;n&#305;n konusu olsun.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bir Koç Olarak Yönetici: GROW Tekniği ve 7 Koçluk Sorusu ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Y&#246;netici kimdir diye sordu&#287;umda akl&#305;n&#305;za ne geliyor? Baz&#305;lar&#305;n&#305;z alan&#305;nca uzmanla&#351;m&#305;&#351;, o alandaki i&#351;ini &#231;ok iyi yapt&#305;&#287;&#305; i&#231;in terfi alm&#305;&#351; ve kendisine ekip y&#246;netimi verilen ki&#351;i y&#246;neticidir diyecektir. Geleneksel y&#246;neticilik anlay&#305;&#351;&#305;nda bu ilke hakim. &#304;&#351;ini en iyi yapan&#305;, nepotizmin olmad&#305;&#287;&#305; yerlerde, nihayetinde y&#246;netici olarak atamak bir&#231;ok yerde halen ge&#231;erli bir kural. Fakat yaln&#305;zca &#231;al&#305;&#351;t&#305;&#287;&#305; alan&#305; en iyi bilen ki&#351;i oldu&#287;u i&#231;in y&#246;netici yap&#305;lan fakat o kabiliyete uygun olup olmad&#305;&#287;&#305; test edilmeyen ki&#351;iler bir s&#252;re sonra hem kendileri ba&#351;ar&#305;s&#305;zl&#305;&#287;a u&#287;ramakta, hem de ekibinden beklenilen verimi alamamaktad&#305;r.]]></description><link>https://www.ozgurtaskaya.com/p/bir-koc-olarak-yonetici-grow-teknigi</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.ozgurtaskaya.com/p/bir-koc-olarak-yonetici-grow-teknigi</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ozgur Taskaya]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2019 17:51:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9cf58b2a-6d6f-4ae9-a5c3-1e37352d1432_939x502.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Y&#246;netici kimdir diye sordu&#287;umda akl&#305;n&#305;za ne geliyor? Baz&#305;lar&#305;n&#305;z alan&#305;nca uzmanla&#351;m&#305;&#351;, o alandaki i&#351;ini &#231;ok iyi yapt&#305;&#287;&#305; i&#231;in terfi alm&#305;&#351; ve kendisine ekip y&#246;netimi verilen ki&#351;i y&#246;neticidir diyecektir. Geleneksel y&#246;neticilik anlay&#305;&#351;&#305;nda bu ilke hakim. &#304;&#351;ini en iyi yapan&#305;, nepotizmin olmad&#305;&#287;&#305; yerlerde, nihayetinde y&#246;netici olarak atamak bir&#231;ok yerde halen ge&#231;erli bir kural. Fakat yaln&#305;zca &#231;al&#305;&#351;t&#305;&#287;&#305; alan&#305; en iyi bilen ki&#351;i oldu&#287;u i&#231;in y&#246;netici yap&#305;lan fakat o kabiliyete uygun olup olmad&#305;&#287;&#305; test edilmeyen ki&#351;iler bir s&#252;re sonra hem kendileri ba&#351;ar&#305;s&#305;zl&#305;&#287;a u&#287;ramakta, hem de ekibinden beklenilen verimi alamamaktad&#305;r.</p><h2>Peter &#304;lkesi</h2><p>Bu tarz terfiler bir&#231;ok ki&#351;inin ba&#351;ar&#305;s&#305;z ve mutsuz olmas&#305;na, dolay&#305;s&#305;yla i&#351;ten &#231;&#305;kmas&#305;na veya &#231;&#305;kar&#305;lmas&#305;na yol a&#231;&#305;yor. Burada k&#305;saca konuyla ilgili olan Peter &#304;lkesi&#8217;nden bahsedelim (&#304;ng. Peter Principle). Kanadal&#305; akademisyen Dr. Laurence J. Peter&#8217;&#305;n ortaya att&#305;&#287;&#305; Peter &#304;lkesi&#8217;ne g&#246;re<strong>&nbsp;&#231;o&#287;u organizasyonda, bir &#231;al&#305;&#351;an terfi alarak en sonunda yetersiz kalaca&#287;&#305; ve performans veremeyece&#287;i pozisyona kadar y&#252;kselecektir</strong>. Yani bir pazarlama uzman&#305; iyi performans g&#246;sterdi&#287;i ve &#351;irketin kurallar&#305;n&#305; dikkatli takip etti&#287;i s&#252;rece &#351;irkette CMO rol&#252;ne kadar y&#252;kselebilir, ancak bu role haz&#305;rl&#305;ks&#305;z oldu&#287;u veya yetenekleri uygun olmad&#305;&#287;&#305; i&#231;in bu rolde ba&#351;ar&#305;s&#305;z olabilir ve i&#351;ten ayr&#305;lmak zorunda kalabilir. &#199;&#252;nk&#252; bir CMO&#8217;dan beklenen ile pazarlama uzman&#305;ndan beklenen &#351;eyler aras&#305;nda da&#287;lar kadar fark var. Mesela affiliate marketing konusunda uzman olan fakat pazarlaman&#305;n di&#287;er kollar&#305;nda kendini &#231;ok geli&#351;tirmemi&#351; birini CMO koltu&#287;una oturttu&#287;unuzda &#351;irketin pazarlama stratejisini affiliate marketing &#252;zerinden kuracakt&#305;r.&nbsp;<strong>Elinde sadece &#231;eki&#231; olan birisi her &#351;eyi &#231;ivi olarak g&#246;r&#252;r</strong>&nbsp;hesab&#305;. Ve dolay&#305;s&#305;yla bu ki&#351;i &#351;irkete kendisinden beklenen ba&#351;ar&#305;y&#305; getiremeyecektir. Halbuki mevcut rol&#252;nde kalsa iyi performans g&#246;stermeye devam edecekti.</p><p>Burada anlatmaya &#231;al&#305;&#351;t&#305;&#287;&#305;m konu y&#246;neticinin en iyi alan bilgisine sahip olan ki&#351;i olmad&#305;&#287;&#305;, daha do&#287;rusu olmamas&#305; gerekti&#287;idir. G&#252;n&#252;m&#252;z modern &#351;irketlerinde y&#246;netici belirli bir alan bilgisinin yan&#305; s&#305;ra kaynak da&#287;&#305;l&#305;m&#305;, b&#252;t&#231;eleme, performans de&#287;erlendirme, yeri gelince zor konu&#351;malar&#305; yapma, motive etme gibi g&#246;revlerin yan&#305; s&#305;ra ko&#231;luk g&#246;revini da yerine getirmekle m&#252;kelleftir. Bir&#231;ok ba&#351;ar&#305;l&#305; startupta y&#246;neticilerin en iyi alan bilgisine sahip olan ki&#351;iler olmad&#305;&#287;&#305;n&#305; g&#246;r&#252;yoruz.</p><p>Burada kendimden &#246;rnek vereyim. Growth ekibinde y&#246;neticilik yapt&#305;&#287;&#305;m Skyscanner&#8217;daki ekibimde hemen hemen herkes benden iyi alan bilgisine sahipti. &#214;rne&#287;in ekibimde marketing analytics, SEO, ASO, product experimentation, python automation, Google &amp; FB Ads ve PR uzmanlar&#305; vard&#305; ve her biri kendi uzmanl&#305;k alanlar&#305;nda benden daha bilgiliydiler. Benden beklenen ise t&#252;m bu alanlar hakk&#305;nda belirli bir birikime sahip olmam ve b&#246;ylece ekibin &#231;al&#305;&#351;t&#305;&#287;&#305; projeleri do&#287;ru se&#231;mem, hedefleri koymam, kaynaklar&#305; do&#287;ru ay&#305;rmam, &#231;&#305;kt&#305;lar&#305;n analizlerini y&#252;r&#252;tmem ve en &#246;nemlisi de onlara ko&#231;luk yapmamd&#305;.&nbsp;<strong>Y&#246;neticiler ekiplerine emir veya talimat de&#287;il, destek ve rehberlik vermelidirler</strong>. Zaten h&#305;zla geli&#351;en ve de&#287;i&#351;en internet &#231;a&#287;&#305;nda t&#252;m do&#287;ru cevaplara sahip olmak imkans&#305;z. Bu y&#252;zden y&#246;neticinin y&#252;r&#252;tmesi gereken temel fonksiyonlar&#305;n ba&#351;&#305;nda&nbsp;<strong>ekip &#252;yelerinin do&#287;ru cevaplara ula&#351;abilmesi i&#231;in ve bu yolda kar&#351;&#305;la&#351;&#305;lan zorluklar&#305;n &#252;stesinden gelebilmeleri i&#231;in gereken ko&#231;lu&#287;u g&#246;stermektir</strong>. Y&#246;netti&#287;iniz insanlara yapaca&#287;&#305;n&#305;z ko&#231;luk onlar&#305;n daha iyi kararlar almalar&#305;n&#305;, kendilerini engelleyen sorunlar&#305; &#231;&#246;zmelerini ve kariyerlerinde ilerlemelerini sa&#287;lamak ad&#305;na faydal&#305; olacak. Ekip &#252;yelerinizin performans&#305;n&#305; maksimize etmek i&#231;in potansiyellerini a&#231;&#305;&#287;a &#231;&#305;karmak ko&#231;lu&#287;un temel amac&#305;d&#305;r.</p><p>Ekip &#252;yeleri performans d&#252;&#351;&#252;kl&#252;&#287;&#252; ya&#351;ad&#305;&#287;&#305;nda y&#246;neticilerin ilk reaksiyonu otoritelerini ortaya koyup onlara ne yapmalar&#305;n&#305; gerekti&#287;ini s&#246;ylemek oluyor. Ko&#231;luk bir&#231;ok y&#246;netici i&#231;in zaman kayb&#305; g&#246;r&#252;lebiliyor. &#199;&#252;nk&#252; oturup ko&#231;lu&#287;um gerektirdi&#287;i sorular&#305; sormaktansa onlara ne yap&#305;lmas&#305; gerekti&#287;ini s&#246;ylemek hem ego tatmini sa&#287;l&#305;yor hem de zamandan tasarruf sa&#287;l&#305;yor. Ne de olsa y&#246;netici her &#351;eyi bilen ki&#351;idir, bu y&#252;zden do&#287;ru cevaplar onlarda sakl&#305;d&#305;r, de&#287;il mi? De&#287;il. Bu tarz bir y&#246;ntem y&#246;netti&#287;iniz ki&#351;ilerin geli&#351;ememesine ve temel performans problemlerinin &#231;&#246;z&#252;lememesine yol a&#231;&#305;yor. Siz de bir y&#246;netici olarak s&#252;rekli benzer sorunlarla m&#252;cadele etmek durumunda kal&#305;yorsunuz.</p><p>Bu yaz&#305;da iki ayr&#305; de&#287;erli ve uygulamas&#305; olduk&#231;a basit ko&#231;luk tekni&#287;inden bahsetmek istiyorum. Birincisi GROW tekni&#287;i, di&#287;eri ise 7 Ko&#231;luk Sorusu.</p><h2>GROW Tekni&#287;i</h2><p>GROW tekni&#287;i ismini b&#252;y&#252;me anlam&#305;na gelen grow kelimesinden al&#305;yor ve kelimenin her bir harfi bu tekni&#287;i olu&#351;turan ad&#305;mlara i&#351;aret ediyor.</p><ul><li><p><strong>G</strong>oal</p></li><li><p>(Current)&nbsp;<strong>R</strong>eality</p></li><li><p><strong>O</strong>ptions (or Obstacles)</p></li><li><p><strong>W</strong>ill (or Way Forward)</p></li></ul><p>Yani</p><ul><li><p>Hedef</p></li><li><p>(Mevcut) Ger&#231;eklik</p></li><li><p>Se&#231;enekler (veya Engeller)</p></li><li><p>&#304;rade</p></li></ul><p>Biz HGS&#304; demektense (zaten H&#305;zl&#305; Ge&#231;i&#351; Sistemi gibi oldu) GROW demeye devam edelim. GROW modelini asl&#305;nda s&#246;zel bir seyahat gibi d&#252;&#351;&#252;nebiliriz. &#214;ncelikle gidece&#287;imiz hedefe karar veriyoruz, ard&#305;ndan an itibariyle nerede oldu&#287;umuzu et&#252;d ediyoruz. Hedefe dair alternatif rotalar&#305; ve &#231;&#305;kabilecek engelleri de&#287;erlendiriyoruz ve son olarak da bu hedefe ula&#351;aca&#287;&#305;m&#305;za dair bir irade ortaya koyuyoruz.</p><p>GROW modelini uygulamak i&#231;in profesyonel bir ko&#231; olman&#305;za veya ko&#231;luk yapmak istedi&#287;iniz ki&#351;inin i&#231;inde bulundu&#287;u ko&#351;ula dair detayl&#305; bir bilgi sahibi olman&#305;za gerek yok. Ko&#231; herhangi bir tavsiye vermiyor, bir yol g&#246;stermiyor; yolun bulunmas&#305;n&#305; kolayla&#351;t&#305;racak sorular soruyor sadece. Asl&#305;nda bir nevi&nbsp;<strong>sokratik y&#246;ntem</strong>&nbsp;de diyebiliriz.</p><p>GROW modelinin detaylar&#305;na ve ko&#231;luk yapt&#305;&#287;&#305;m&#305;z ki&#351;iye hangi ad&#305;mda ne tarz sorular sorabilece&#287;imize bakal&#305;m.</p><p><strong>1- Hedef</strong></p><p>&#214;ncelikle hedef nedir, y&#246;netti&#287;iniz ki&#351;iye bu konuya y&#246;nelik sorular sorman&#305;z laz&#305;m. E&#287;er hedefiniz bir davran&#305;&#351; de&#287;i&#351;ikli&#287;i yaratmak ise, ekip &#252;yenizin ula&#351;mak istedi&#287;ini davran&#305;&#351; &#351;eklini hedef olarak koymas&#305; gerekiyor. Bu hedefin &#246;l&#231;&#252;lebilir, eri&#351;ilebilir ve ger&#231;ek&#231;i olmas&#305; da &#246;nemli.</p><p>Hedefin nedir?<br>Neden bu hedefe ula&#351;mak istiyorsun?<br>Bu hedefe ula&#351;&#305;ld&#305;&#287;&#305;n&#305; nas&#305;l anlayabiliriz?<br>Bu hedef kariyer hedeflerin ve ekibin hedefleri ile uyumlu mu?<br>Tam olarak elde etmek istedi&#287;in nedir?</p><p><strong>2- Mevcut Ger&#231;eklik</strong></p><p>Ard&#305;ndan mevcut ger&#231;ekli&#287;i tan&#305;mlamas&#305; i&#231;in sorular sormal&#305;s&#305;n&#305;z. Ki&#351;i i&#231;inde bulundu&#287;u ko&#351;ullar&#305; iyice anlamadan sorunu &#231;&#246;zmeye &#231;al&#305;&#351;&#305;rsa ba&#351;ar&#305;y&#305; yakalama &#351;ans&#305; d&#252;&#351;&#252;k olacakt&#305;r.</p><p>&#350;u an bu konuda neler oluyor?<br>Hedefe ula&#351;mak i&#231;in att&#305;&#287;&#305;n ad&#305;mlar oldu mu? Neler mesela?<br>Az &#246;nce koydu&#287;un hedef farkl&#305; hedefler ile &#231;at&#305;&#351;&#305;yor mu?</p><p><strong>3- Se&#231;enekler</strong></p><p>Mevcut durum de&#287;erlendirmesi yap&#305;ld&#305;ktan sonra nelerin m&#252;mk&#252;n oldu&#287;una dair konu&#351;maya ge&#231;ilebilir. Burada hedefe ula&#351;mak i&#231;in m&#252;mk&#252;n olan se&#231;enekleri de&#287;erlendirmeye te&#351;vik etmek gerekiyor.</p><p>&#214;n&#252;nde hangi opsiyonlar var?<br>Ba&#351;ka ne yapabilirsin?<br>&#304;lk ad&#305;m&#305;n ne olabilir?<br>Bu se&#231;ene&#287;in faydalar&#305;/zararlar&#305; neler?<br>Hedefe ula&#351;mak i&#231;in art&#305;k yapmay&#305; b&#305;rakman gereken davran&#305;&#351;lar veya al&#305;&#351;kanl&#305;klar var m&#305;?<br>&#214;n&#252;nde ne gibi engeller var?</p><p><strong>4- &#304;rade</strong></p><p>GROW modelinin son ad&#305;m&#305;na geldik. Ekibinizde ko&#231;luk yapt&#305;&#287;&#305;n&#305;z ki&#351;i art&#305;k hedefi, g&#252;ncel durumu ve hedefe nas&#305;l ula&#351;abilece&#287;ine dair opsiyonlar&#305; biliyor. Son ad&#305;mda ise bu hedefe ula&#351;mak i&#231;in irade koymaya y&#246;nelik ad&#305;m atmak gerekli. Burada sizin g&#246;reviniz ko&#231;luk yapt&#305;&#287;&#305;n&#305;z ki&#351;inin hedefe ula&#351;aca&#287;&#305;na dair sorumluluk &#252;stlenmesini sa&#287;lamak ve motivasyonunu artt&#305;rmak. Bundan sonra yapman&#305;z gereken d&#252;zenli olarak g&#246;r&#252;&#351;mek ve hedefe do&#287;ru kaydedilen ilerlemeyi konu&#351;mak.</p><p>Bundan sonra ne yapacaks&#305;n ve ne zaman?<br>Ba&#351;ka ne yapacaks&#305;n?<br>Kendini nas&#305;l motive edebilirsin?<br>Kaydetti&#287;in ilerlemeyi hangi aral&#305;klarla konu&#351;mak istersin? G&#252;nl&#252;k, haftal&#305;k, ayl&#305;k?<br>Kimden, nas&#305;l bir deste&#287;e ihtiyac&#305;n olacak?</p><h3>GROW tekni&#287;ini efektif kullanmak i&#231;in ipu&#231;lar&#305;</h3><ul><li><p>Farketti&#287;iniz &#252;zere ko&#231;luktaki kritik nokta kar&#351;&#305;daki ki&#351;iyi d&#252;&#351;&#252;nd&#252;recek iyi sorular sormakt&#305;r. Bunu yapabilmek i&#231;in ise dikkatli dinleme becerisi gerekiyor.</p></li><li><p>Evet-Hay&#305;r ile yan&#305;tlanabilecek a&#231;&#305;k u&#231;lu sorular sormay&#305;n.</p></li><li><p>Sessizlik oldu&#287;unda hemen araya girip soru sormak i&#231;in atlamay&#305;n. Bazen sessizlik kar&#351;&#305;daki ki&#351;inin ger&#231;ekten d&#252;&#351;&#252;nd&#252;&#287;&#252; &#351;eyleri ortaya &#231;&#305;kar&#305;r. Sessizli&#287;i yaratt&#305;&#287;&#305; rahats&#305;zl&#305;k ile size daha &#246;nce s&#246;ylemediklerini s&#246;yleyeceklerdir.</p></li><li><p>Sorulara yan&#305;t vermekten ka&#231;&#305;n&#305;n, ko&#231;luk yapt&#305;&#287;&#305;n&#305;z ki&#351;ilerin yan&#305;tlar&#305; bulmas&#305;na yard&#305;mc&#305; olun. E&#287;er ko&#231;luk yapt&#305;&#287;&#305;n&#305;z ki&#351;iyi kendi do&#287;runuza y&#246;nlendirecek sorular soruyorsan&#305;z ko&#231;luk yapm&#305;yorsunuz.</p></li><li><p>Ko&#231;luk yapt&#305;&#287;&#305;n&#305;z ki&#351;ileri yarg&#305;lamay&#305;n, g&#246;reviniz onlar&#305;n geli&#351;imine destek olmak.</p></li></ul><p>&#350;imdi gelin 7 ko&#231;luk sorusunu inceleyelim.</p><h2>7 Ko&#231;luk Sorusu</h2><p>Michael Bungar Stanier&nbsp;<em>The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More &amp; Change the Way You Lead Forever</em>&nbsp;isimli kitab&#305;nda ko&#231;luk yaparken kullanmam&#305;z gereken 7 &#246;nemli sorudan bahseder. GROW metoduna ek olarak bundan da bahsetmek istedim. &#214;zellikle de ikinci soru, olduk&#231;a basit g&#246;r&#252;nse de, ger&#231;ekten etkili bir soru.</p><p><strong>1- Akl&#305;nda ne var?</strong>: Bu a&#231;&#305;l&#305;&#351; sorusuyla hedeflenen buzlar&#305; k&#305;rmak ve diyalo&#287;u ba&#351;latmak.<br><strong>2- Daha ba&#351;ka?</strong>: Bu soruyla ko&#231;luk yapt&#305;&#287;&#305;n&#305;z ki&#351;inin akl&#305;nda ba&#351;ka neler var, ba&#351;ta s&#246;ylemedi&#287;i konular var m&#305; o a&#231;&#305;&#287;a &#231;&#305;kacak. Yazar&#305;n dedi&#287;i gibi: &#8220;<strong>Birinin size verdi&#287;i ilk yan&#305;t asla tek yan&#305;t de&#287;ildir ve nadiren do&#287;ru yan&#305;tt&#305;r.</strong>&#8221;<br><strong>3- Burada senin i&#231;in as&#305;l s&#305;k&#305;nt&#305; nedir?</strong>: As&#305;l sorunu &#246;&#287;renmeye &#231;al&#305;&#351;t&#305;&#287;&#305;m&#305;z soru.<br><strong>4- Ne istiyorsun?</strong>: Beklentiyi anlamam&#305;z i&#231;in &#246;nemli bir soru. Bazen insanlar&#305;n istekleri bizim d&#252;&#351;&#252;nd&#252;klerimizden &#231;ok daha farkl&#305; olabiliyor.<br><strong>5- Ben nas&#305;l yard&#305;m edebilirim?</strong>: Kar&#351;&#305; taraf&#305;n siz bir &#246;neri sunmadan &#231;&#246;z&#252;m &#252;retebilmesi i&#231;in &#246;nemli bir soru.<br><strong>6- E&#287;er buna evet dersen, neye hay&#305;r diyorsun?</strong>: Kar&#351;&#305; taraf&#305;n ger&#231;ekten o &#351;eyi isteyip istemedi&#287;ini anlamak<br><strong>7- Senin i&#231;in en faydal&#305; olan &#351;ey neydi?</strong>: Ki&#351;inin geli&#351;imine katk&#305; sunup sunmad&#305;&#287;&#305;m&#305;z&#305; anlayaca&#287;&#305;m&#305;z soru.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>