Method over Mood.

The method that starts by cutting. Marketing that moves because it has a system, not because it had a good month.

Method over Mood is Murillo Bacchi's marketing and growth method. It starts from a simple thesis: results that repeat come from measured decisions, not inspiration. In practice, there are six principles that define what to do and four steps that define the order.

The first deliverable is almost never a new campaign. It is a list of what to stop doing. And the reason behind each item on it.

Where the name comes from

The name is the thesis, compressed.

Mood is what happens when a decision depends on how the day went. You post more because the week was slow. You switch channels because someone said good things about one. You cut budget because the month scared you.

Method is the opposite: the decision was already made before the day began. Not because the plan is rigid, but because a criterion exists. And a criterion survives a bad week.

It is the same idea behind the whole brand: energy needs direction. No business fails for lack of effort. It fails from effort without direction.

The six principles

Six choices, each against a habit.

Each principle exists because it kills a specific behavior. A principle that takes nothing away from anyone is not a principle, it is decoration.

Data over drama

Deciding with numbers is not coldness, it is simple economics. Without data, every discussion comes down to whoever talks loudest. And whoever talks loudest is rarely the person closest to the customer. Three numbers settle almost everything: how much came in, how much it cost to bring in, how much each customer is worth. Without them, it is not strategy: it is luck with a nice name.
Positioning over pretty

A pretty ad with a confusing offer is money buying indifference. Before improving how you say it, you have to settle what you say, to whom, and why that person should choose you and not the competitor two blocks away.
Trained over talented

Talent makes a good month. Training makes the year. Marketing has a body of knowledge: pricing, channels, retention, offer. Whoever has not studied it is reinventing, slowly and at a cost, what was already solved.
Craft over cheap

Cheap charges somewhere else: in the owner's time, in rework, in the opportunity that did not come back. Bad execution is not neutral. It teaches the market that this is how your brand shows up.
Brand over bait

Bait brings today's click and sends the bill tomorrow. A brand is what makes someone choose you already knowing the price. The two can coexist, but in the right order: whoever only has bait needs a discount forever.
Systems over saviors

No person, agency or tactic saves a business. A system does: the defined path between whoever discovers you and whoever buys, with measurement at every point where it can break. Easy promises and universal formulas are shortcuts. And shortcuts always charge a toll later.

Data over drama

Mood

The decision depends on how the day went.

You post more because the week was slow.
You switch channels because someone said good things about one.
You cut budget because the month scared you.

Method

The decision was already made before the day began.

How much came inR$
How much it cost to bring inR$ 200
How much each customer is worthHow much each patient is worthR$ 2,000

If it is worth more than it cost, you make a profit.

Panel example, in Brazilian reais. The real numbers are your company's.Panel example, in Brazilian reais. The real numbers are your clinic's.

The four steps

The principles say what. The steps say when.

The intensity starts. The system continues. The sprint is for creating, testing and deciding; the system is for maintaining, measuring and repeating when the energy drops. That is why order matters more than the list.

01
Diagnostic

Where your marketing is getting stuck, with data and not opinion. This is where the list of what to stop doing comes from. Almost always longer than the list of what to start.
02
Strategy

Clear priority: what comes first, what comes next and what does not come at all. Strategy is the choice of what to sacrifice; the rest is a wish list.
03
Execution

Putting it into practice, directly with me or through Bache. A plan that does not become routine is not a plan, it is a document.
04
Optimization

Measure, adjust, repeat. Growth is a system, not a single sprint. And this is where the method stops depending on me.

The system continues.

Frequently asked questions

What people ask about the method.

What is Method over Mood?

It is Murillo Bacchi's marketing and growth method, made of six principles: Data over drama, Positioning over pretty, Trained over talented, Craft over cheap, Brand over bait and Systems over saviors. And four steps: diagnostic, strategy, execution and optimization.

The name comes from the brand's thesis: marketing is a method, not a mood. A decision that depends on how the day went cannot be repeated.

Why does the method start by cutting?

Because a stuck business almost never suffers from a lack of initiative. It suffers from too many initiatives with no priority: five channels half done, three offers competing with each other, daily content that goes nowhere.

Cutting frees up the two things whatever is left needs to work: attention and budget.

What is the difference between a method and a formula?

A formula hands you the steps and promises the result. A method hands you the decision criteria and promises no result at all. The result depends on your market, your offer and your cash.

In practice: a formula says "post three times a day". A method asks what you want to happen after the post, and whether the numbers so far justify posting more.

How long until the method shows results?

The diagnostic gives clarity in the first week. And clarity already changes decisions. But the honest timeline until results become predictable is 60 to 90 days: the first weeks are for finding out what works, and the rest for turning that into routine.

Does the method work for any kind of business?

The principles do: they are decision criteria, not tactics. The steps do too. What changes is the content of each step: a clinic and an e-commerce store have different bottlenecks, different channels and different buying cycles.

Where it works best: a business that already sells something and wants predictability. Where it works worst: someone who has not yet validated that anyone will buy.

Do I need to hire you to apply the method?

No. The six principles are on this page in full, on purpose. You can use them as a checklist in your next marketing meeting, without talking to me.

What I sell is the time of someone who has done this dozens of times: spotting the bottleneck faster and getting the order wrong less often.

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