When a client tells us they need SEO, we don’t nod and send a proposal. We say the same thing every time: “Tell us…
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If you manage a Mailchimp account, you’ve probably gotten this email. Maybe every week. “Your list grew by 5 new subscribers in the last 2 weeks. Set up an email automation to greet new subscribers automatically.” Most people ignore it. I get a stack of them for our clients’ accounts, and I understand the impulse.…
I’ve been doing email marketing for over fifteen years, long enough to watch it get declared dead more times than I can count. Social media was supposed to kill it. Then texting was supposed to kill it. Now everyone’s asking whether…
So when an artist came to us for a website, and she wanted a painting on her homepage instead of a photo of herself painting, I understood the instinct completely. She’s an artist. The art is the point. But we told her…
Somewhere in there, I actually got better. Not because anyone was drilling me on fundamentals. I got better by being there, showing up to enough practices and games that some of it…
I have been rethinking how I use LinkedIn lately, and one small habit has done more to filter out the noise than anything else I have tried. It is simple enough that…
If you have spent any time researching donor management systems, you already know the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to say out loud: There is no…
Every few months, someone asks us the same question in a slightly different form. Should we get HubSpot? Is it worth the…