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Ivan Tesolkin

I’ve spent more than a decade helping startups, small businesses, and technical companies solve problems that rarely begin as “marketing problems.” Sometimes the business is generating leads but losing margin. Sometimes customers arrive with expectations the team cannot support. Follow-up gets loose, offers become unclear, departments see different versions of the same problem, and the company keeps reacting instead of deciding.

Across 50+ strategy projects, I kept seeing the same pattern: marketing fails long before the first ad when a business does not understand its current reality, customer path, bottlenecks, delivery pressure, and operational limits.

That is why I wrote The Marketing Problem Solver.

The book is built around a practical structure: understand Point A, where the business really is today; choose Point B, the next direction worth pursuing; and build the road between them carefully enough that the business can actually carry the growth.

I wrote this for owners, founders, marketers, and the teams who have to turn marketing into sales, delivery, support, operations, and money. It is for people who are tired of random activity disguised as strategy.

I do not believe most businesses need more noise, more dashboards, or more expensive distractions. They need clearer evidence, better decisions, stronger workflows, and a way to make marketing survive a normal week. Because strategy is not really tested during planning meetings. It is tested when customers are waiting, the team is overloaded, margins matter, and the business still has to make the next right decision.