SMBs spend about $43,500 on martech it doesn’t need, according to the survey. This unwanted tech can also cost time and cause workflow confusion. Constantine von Hoffman on June 7, 2023 More than half of the marketing technology used by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) is redundant, according to a new survey. This redundancy is … Continue reading 51% of SMB marketers say they’re stuck with redundant martech
Karl Sakas January 7, 2022 Stuck on a decision? Consider your Ideal Outcome vs. your Minimum Acceptable Outcome. A client reached out asking for advice on a tough decision they needed to make—they’d tried working through it on their own, but they couldn’t make a decision. They told me about their dilemma and I immediately … Continue reading Stuck Making a Big Decision At Your Agency? Consider Your Ideal Outcome vs. Minimum Acceptable Outcome
Paul Keijzer January 15, 2021 You don’t feel ambitious enough to climb out of bed every morning. You experience low-grade dread aka ‘Sunday night blues’ regularly. You just can’t pump yourself up to finish a project that’s been dragging on. Your productivity is plummeting and you cannot seem to find creative solutions to challenges that … Continue reading Stuck in a Motivational Rut? 3 Tips to Break Out of It
Jonathan Crossfield August 19, 2020 An often requested feature from Sked Social customers is the ability to automatically repetitively repost content. There’s one simple reason Sked won’t add this feature: it’s not good practice. What some marketers would love to do is to load up a batch of posts into their scheduler of choice and … Continue reading Stuck on Repeat: Why Automatic Reposting Is a Bad Idea
Angela Hausman, PhD July 23, 2020 One of the biggest challenges many businesses face is the fact that the world around them moves at an extraordinary pace. Keeping up with the pace of change is challenging, especially if your management structure doesn’t support agile responses. After all, it’s your duty to keep up with changes … Continue reading Is Your Business Stuck in the Past?
Bonnie Harris — May 7, 2020 After the last presidential election the internet went wild, creating a polarity that damaged friendships, split families, and even destroyed marriages. For many people it was disturbing but for people like me, someone that worked in social media all day long, it was nothing short of traumatic. Every day … Continue reading Avoiding Mind Pollution When You’re Stuck at Home
Daniel Burrus — November 20, 2019 Follow @DanielBurrus A difficult problem can and will eventually become a roadblock so large that it renders forward progress in any productive way virtually impossible. The direct result of a roadblock as such is more often than not, procrastination, and the longer this problem is in place, the more … Continue reading Don’t Get Stuck; Move Forward
Stuck In The Funnel: Email Works Best Only In the Middle by Ray Schultz , Columnist, July 31, 2019 Moving leads through the funnel is no easy thing. Most firms have little grasp of funnel ROI, GetResponse reports. Email is the most widely used channel at all stages of the sales funnel. But it is … Continue reading Stuck In The Funnel: Email Works Best Only In the Middle
Liz Kislik — July 23, 2019 Follow @lizkislik — July 23, 2019 When I interview executives for corporate change management or improvement projects, they often talk about the feeling that they’re not making or seeing enough progress. Indeed, according to Gallop’s 2017 State of the Workplace report, fully two-thirds of U.S. employees feel disengaged at … Continue reading How to Help Yourself If You’re Feeling Stuck At Work
Karl Sakas — January 7, 2019 Follow @KarlSakas — January 7, 2019 Feeling stuck at your agency? You might be using “over-coupling” as a defense mechanism to avoid something else. The solution? A coaching strategy I call “decoupling.” As humans, we frequently get stuck because we choose to make one thing falsely contingent on another. … Continue reading Stuck Again? Try ‘Decoupling’ Things!
