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August 6 2026 Jay Feitlinger

How Much Free Work Should You Do Before a Contract?

You spent six weeks scoping a deal before anybody signed anything, and now your operations lead is looking at the internal budget sheet like you personally lit it on fire. Sarah Shepard, our COO and my co-host, and I have been having some version of ...

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August 3 2026 Jay Feitlinger

Closed Deals Still Leak Revenue After the Contract Is Signed

Winning the deal isn't the finish line. Here's what breaks down in the handoff from sales to delivery, and why it quietly costs B2B companies expansion revenue.

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July 22 2026 Jay Feitlinger

Inside StringCan's AI Stack: Sales, Operations, and Client Memory

You've probably asked ChatGPT or Claude to help draft an email and called it a day. Then you sat in a leadership meeting wondering why the rest of the org still isn't moving any faster, even though everyone swears AI is "saving time."

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July 20 2026 Jay Feitlinger

Badge Scans Are Not Pipeline

Somebody gets back from the show and reports the number.

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July 13 2026 Jay Feitlinger

Your Reps Aren't Updating the CRM. That's Not a Training Problem.

You rolled out CRM training last quarter. Reps sat through it, asked decent questions, and even nodded along when you explained why accurate pipeline data matters for forecasting. Three months later, deal stages are stale, half the activity logged ...

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