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October 7 2026 Sarah Shepard

Will AI Replace Your Dashboard? What Leaders Should Know

If your team has a pile of AI tools, a dashboard nobody opens, and a nagging feeling that you're paying for software the work has already outgrown, you're not alone. I hear some version of "is this helping our bottom line or just adding another ...

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October 5 2026 Jay Feitlinger

New Website, Same Pipeline: What a Redesign Can't Fix

Six months after the new website launches, someone pulls the numbers. Traffic is up, the pages finally look like the company you've become, and prospects compliment the site on sales calls. Then the CEO asks how many qualified opportunities the ...

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September 25 2026 Jay Feitlinger

Before You Set the 2027 Marketing Budget, Find the Leak It's Funding

The 2027 marketing budget usually shows up as a spreadsheet with this year's number, a 10% increase, and one new channel somebody wants to try. Then the CEO asks a fair question: which of this year's dollars turned into closed deals? The room gets ...

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September 25 2026 Sarah Shepard

Your Campaign Approvals Are Running in the Wrong Order

I've been rewriting our own marketing copy lately, which is a strange assignment for someone who runs an agency. You either do it way more often than makes sense or way less, and there's not much of a comfortable middle. This round, I got stuck on a ...

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September 22 2026 Jay Feitlinger

How to Stop Your Lead Scoring Model From Burying Good Deals

You've got lead scoring turned on in HubSpot, the reps sort by it every morning, and you still can't tell whether it's pointing them at the right accounts or quietly steering them away from the ones that would've closed. Somebody set up the rules a ...

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