A few reads about tech and politics - Issue #318
This week, we're returning to some of the topics that have always popped up in this email: tech and politics.
The 7 Top Unused HubSpot Features
As companies cut budgets in 2023, you’ll need to get more done with existing software. Here are 7 ways to get more from your HubSpot account.
Is privacy normal? - Issue #317
Peggy Noonan's column on Prince Harry, published last week, ended with a broader thought about privacy. It has all of the pearl-clutching and "back in my day" of a good Noonan column, but I think her point is worth quoting at length:
A meal with a friend - Issue #316
From Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men:
7 Trends that Sales, Marketing, and Service Teams Face in 2023
As part of my consulting work, I try to help sales, marketing, and service leaders zoom out to think about where the world is going and how they should react to it. Usually this is a process of me identifying trends and us talking about how they impact the client's revenue operations.
On Bonsai - Issue 313
One Spring a few years ago, I dug up some maple trees and a few...
Tech is coming for your tech job - Issue #310
Here’s a quick summary of where we are with tech: we were promised self-driving cars, instead we got Twitter; now that your white-collar job is mostly interacting with tech, the robots will quickly be better at it than you.
HubSpot's Revenue Operations Certification: Lessons Learned
After taking a few years off, I got back to badge-earning by finishing HubSpot Academy's Revenue Operations certification on September 16th. This course was almost as wide-ranging as my HubSpot consulting role: it covered everything from strong sales process definition to the Lean SixSigma definition of waste to accounting basics to hiring. Any role in operations, whether you're a team of one or dozens, is similarly wide-ranging.
Email Newsletters: Build Your Emails Like a Journalist [Strategy Template]
Every time we think email is dying, it returns.