My thinking on building growth machines, organised around six core topics that form my methodology. Each article connects theory to practice, showing not just what works, but why it works and how to adapt it to your context. Written for consultants and course creators who are serious about systematic growth.
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Use heatmaps, recordings, and survey data to uncover friction. Discover confusion and blockers that hurt your conversion rates and user experience.
Build a shared objection-handling library and run practice sessions based on real call data so your team improves together.
Bad interviews produce polite answers that confirm what you already believe. Good interviews surface uncomfortable truths that change your strategy. The difference is in how you ask.
Capture visitors before they leave with exit intent, scroll triggers, and timed pop-ups. Use LinkedIn and Meta lead forms to recapture those who did not convert.
Create a dedicated CS view with upcoming renewals, recent tickets, and account activity. One screen that tells your CS team who needs attention today.
Configure what happens when a lead arrives from marketing: how reps get notified, how leads are assigned, and what the first sales task should be.
Ideas, tasks, and commitments appear during meetings, in conversations, while driving. Most of them disappear. One capture habit so nothing falls through and your brain can stop trying to remember.
Focus beats diversification. Scale one channel until it stops working efficiently, then add one more. Always have a backup channel started, but put 80% of effort into your primary channel.
Automate the contact lifecycle from customer through onboarding, active, and renewal so the CRM always reflects where someone is in the journey.
Statistical significance is just the beginning. Learn how to interpret results correctly, avoid false positives, and turn winning experiments into permanent improvements across your growth engines.
Build active lists that update automatically as contacts meet criteria, create segmentation rules based on behaviour and attributes, and set up list hygiene automation that removes inactive or unqualified contacts.
Churn happens when you're not paying attention. Success platforms surface at-risk accounts before it's too late to save them.
Understand how much your customers are willing to pay so you can price with confidence.
Break down click-through rates by segment to discover which audiences respond best and where your creative needs reworking.
Start conversations with cold leads by leading with value instead of a meeting request.
Keep deals moving forward when prospects need time to think or consult their team.
Combine default reports, custom reports, and analytics (coach reps, forecast, pipeline health) into one view. Schedule weekly delivery to the team.
Shorten the gap between first touch and booked meeting by removing friction at every step of the journey.
Break down form completions by traffic source to see which channels bring the most convertible visitors and where to invest more.
Plan and execute price increases with clear messaging and a thoughtful rollout that retains customers and positions the change positively.
Experiment with when reminders go out and what they say to find the combination that gets the most people to show up.
Use HubSpot's pre-built reports for email, landing pages, forms, social, and ads. Know what's working without building anything from scratch.
Define the stages a contact moves through from subscriber to customer, map the exact handover points where marketing passes leads to sales, and configure automation that updates lifecycle stages without manual work.
Turn what you hear in interviews into ideas you can test across your copy, your ads, your content, and your product.
Create your product catalogue, define pricing tiers, and configure line items so quotes and invoices pull accurate data automatically.
Happy customers don't always tell you and unhappy ones often don't either. Feedback tools capture sentiment so you know where you stand.
Map the discovery call from opening to next steps so every conversation follows a consistent path that builds toward a clear outcome.
Build quote templates, configure approval workflows, and set up countersigning so your sales team can send professional quotes from HubSpot.
Apply a structured approach to scaling what works: do more of it, make it better, then add new variations to extend your reach.
Configure your personal workspace so HubSpot works for how you sell. Set working hours, notification preferences, connect your email and calendar, and set up snippets and templates you'll use daily.
Choose meeting types, set durations and buffers, place links where intent is highest. Make booking frictionless so ready leads do not drop off.
Deep work keeps getting interrupted by Slack, email, and quick questions. Practical steps to design an environment where your best hours go to your most important work.
You can train for a half marathon in 12 weeks. You can launch a product, land five clients, or completely redesign a process. But you have to start now. A sprint system that creates urgency and visibility.
Compare image, video, carousel, and text formats across segments to find which earns the most clicks from each audience.
Re-score your experiment backlog each quarter using updated data so you always run the highest-leverage tests first.
Link your email inbox, calendar, and key integrations (Slack, Google Workspace, accounting). One-time setup that makes everything downstream work.
Find the combination of features and pricing tiers that makes choosing your product feel obvious.
Calendar ping-pong kills momentum. Booking tools let prospects pick a time instantly so meetings actually happen.
Remove or re-segment contacts who have not engaged in 90 or more days to protect your sender reputation and keep your data clean.
Install Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics 4 correctly. Get the right foundations in place before tracking any events or conversions.
Define the fields your business actually needs on contacts, companies, and deals. Understand why the same-looking property on a contact and a company are separate objects with separate data.
You start Monday with good intentions and end Friday wondering where the time went. A weekly planning ritual that matches your energy to your priorities so the important work actually happens.
Deliver what they asked for, then introduce yourself. Build trust over 3-5 emails before asking for anything. Different flows for different entry points.
Choose the right bidding strategy for your goals, set target CPA or ROAS, and configure bid adjustments by device, location, and audience.
Use the compound model to calculate which single metric improvement will generate the biggest revenue impact this quarter, so you focus where it matters most.
Monitor expansion MRR as a standalone metric, identify which accounts are growing fastest, and spot trends early.
Spreading effort across everything means making progress on nothing. Learn how to pick one metric to focus on each month, select initiatives that will actually move it, and create the conditions for step-change improvement rather than incremental tweaks. Walk away with a clear focus and a short list of initiatives that matter.
Send confirmation immediately with what to expect. Remind at 24 hours and 1 hour. Each touchpoint reduces no-shows.
Every lead starts with a form submission. Good form tools balance conversion with data quality so you capture the right information.
Improve the booking page itself with fewer steps, a clearer value proposition, and social proof so more visitors actually schedule.
Boost LinkedIn reach in the week before you post. Warm the algorithm with daily chats, meaningful comments, a cleaner network, and new recommendations.
Vague targeting wastes budget and confuses your team. Get specific about which companies to pursue and who within them actually makes buying decisions so every growth activity has a clear target.
Place forms where intent is highest. Choose fields that balance data quality against conversion rate. Make every form work harder.
Move content subscribers from passive readers to active prospects ready to talk.
See the full funnel from first touch to closed revenue, identify where leads leak between marketing and sales, and track the metrics that connect activity to outcomes.
Walk through the full quoting process: associate a deal, choose a template, add line items, customise sections, review, and share the quote as a link, email, or PDF.
Streamline your process so proposals go out within 24 hours of the qualifying call while the prospect is still engaged.
Keep your nurture flows fresh by adding new case studies, articles, and insights as you publish them, so contacts always receive relevant material.
If you're joining a team that runs this operating system, you need to understand how it works without reading every chapter. This is the short version: what to expect from each cadence, how decisions get made, and how to contribute from day one.
Shift your spend toward channels with the lowest cost per acquisition and away from those producing diminishing returns.
Most experiments fail before they start because the hypothesis is vague or untestable. Learn how to write hypotheses that are specific enough to prove or disprove and tied to metrics that matter.
Authenticate your domain for marketing emails. Without this, emails land in spam and you can't send at scale.
Combine multiple data sources to answer the questions defaults can't. Funnel reports and attribution reports that show where revenue actually comes from.
Make rebooking easy with one click. Follow up same day if they miss. Give them another chance without burning the relationship.
Every week creates clutter: loose tasks, unanswered messages, and half-finished thoughts. A Friday firebreak ritual to clear the decks, score your progress, and set up next week.
Spot upsell and cross-sell opportunities from usage patterns, customer feedback, and lifecycle signals before customers even ask for more.
Analyse which proposal formats, pricing structures, and lengths correlate with higher close rates so you double down on what works.
Track engagement, usage, and sentiment to identify at-risk customers before they churn so you can intervene early with targeted outreach.
Identify complementary products or services that solve related problems and present them at the right moment in the customer journey.
A/B test one element at a time on highest-traffic pages. Start with headlines (biggest impact), then proof, then CTA. Apply winning patterns across similar pages without re-testing everything.
Define which contacts count as marketing contacts (and which don't). This controls your billing and who receives campaigns.
Build dashboards that track ticket volume, resolution time, SLA compliance, and customer satisfaction so you can spot service issues early.
Review account health trends across your portfolio each quarter, adjust scoring weights, and catch at-risk accounts before they churn.
Images and videos determine whether ads get noticed in feed. Test formats systematically: single images versus carousels versus videos, and match visual type to segment and awareness stage.
Good creative gets clicks. Design tools help you produce professional visuals without waiting on designers for every asset.
Turn accepted LinkedIn requests into engaged prospects without coming across as pushy or salesy.
Set up how products attach to deals: default quantities, discount rules, and recurring vs. one-time pricing. The structure that makes quoting fast and consistent.
Track show rates over time and by lead source to identify which prospects are most likely to attend and where the drop-off happens.
Find where new customers drop off during onboarding and redesign those steps so more people reach first value faster.
Paid channels let you reach your audience immediately. The right platform depends on where your buyers spend their attention.
Define SLA policies for response and resolution times, configure escalation rules, and set up alerts so your team never misses a deadline.
Take validated wins from one channel and systematically test whether they work in others to multiply the impact of what already works.
Map the right prospects, message, and channels before sending a single email. Make every touch land in the inbox of someone ready to talk.
Consistency on social takes time you don't have. Management tools help you stay visible without living inside the platforms.
Build board-ready reports that show revenue forecasting, pipeline coverage, and progress against company targets without getting lost in operational detail.
Find and qualify leads with precision so you can spend less time prospecting. Focus more time on closing actual conversations that matter.
Benchmark your pricing against competitors and market rates each quarter to make sure you are positioned where you want to be.
Experiment with how you display pricing, including tiered options, monthly versus annual, and anchoring techniques, to see what converts best.
Update your qualification criteria based on which discovery calls actually turned into closed deals over the last quarter.
Choose between single image, carousel, video, document, and conversation ads based on your objective and where your audience is in the funnel.
Set up your LinkedIn Campaign Manager account, connect your company page, install the Insight Tag, and configure conversion tracking.
Check whether your positioning still differentiates you from competitors and resonates with how buyers think about their problem today.
Set up invoice templates, recurring billing for retainer clients, and automated payment reminders.
Get your contacts, companies, and deals into HubSpot cleanly. Deduplicate, map properties, and set naming conventions before anything else touches the data.
Find and verify contact data, enrich leads with company information, and build targeted lists for outreach.
Match CTA to segment readiness. Hot traffic wants "Book demo now", cold traffic wants "Get the guide". Asking for too much too soon kills conversion. Asking for too little from ready buyers wastes opportunities.
Where your team communicates shapes how decisions get made. Good collaboration tools make information easy to find and keep conversations focused.
Link products to deals, generate branded quotes with e-signature, and connect payment collection so you close deals without leaving the CRM.
Create a marketing email from scratch: pick a template, write copy, add personalisation tokens, preview across devices, and send to a list. The core workflow you'll repeat every week.
Your best customers want to connect with each other. Community tools create spaces where users help users and loyalty grows.