Working smarter

Growth work is chaotic: parallel campaigns, shifting priorities, hundreds of micro-tasks. Get organised, tame the noise, and protect your energy before overload hits.

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Turn scattered tasks into one clear project board

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Keep experiments, briefs, and notes in a single workspace

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Automate repetitive updates across every growth channel

Working smarter
45-min free course

Free growth course for B2B marketers

Learn the system that scales revenue without scaling workload. 45 minutes of lessons, 214% revenue case study, and a complete growth model.

Managed growth for B2B service teams

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A structured 14-week execution plan

A 100-day sprint to implement the Solid Growth system — so you can scale revenue without scaling your workload. We act as your external growth team and deliver results fast.

Introduction

I have run growth experiments since day one of my career—often juggling a dozen clients, channels, and deadlines at once. Early on the sheer volume of tasks, briefs, and data points left me reacting instead of steering. I realised I needed a personal operating system before any flashy tactic would matter.

Over the past fifteen years I have worked with lots of marketers who hit the same wall: no reliable project management routine, ad-hoc document storage, and experiments tracked in scattered spreadsheets. Momentum vanished because nobody could see the whole picture or spot the next priority.

This page fixes that. I have distilled the workflows, automation recipes, and knowledge-management habits that consistently turn chaos into structure. Use the playbooks, adapt them to your stack, and keep shipping growth projects without burning out.

Tool categories

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Collaboration tools

Collaboration and feedback tools help teams brainstorm, review work, and share input efficiently, making teamwork smoother and more productive.

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Automation & low-code

Automate repetitive tasks and streamline processes with powerful workflow tools. Reduce manual work, improve efficiency, and create scalable automations that keep your business running smoothly.

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Productivity & AI

Personal productivity tools help individuals stay focused, manage distractions, and optimise their workflow for better efficiency and time management.

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Task management

Master the art of prioritising and breaking down tasks to manage large projects and align with your goals.

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Buy back your time
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Buy back your time

Dan Martell

Reclaim your time, delegate effectively, and create a sustainable work-life balance while scaling your business.

Slow productivity
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Slow productivity

Cal Newport

Shift from constant busyness to meaningful work by focusing on the long term and prioritising what truly matters.

The One Thing
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The One Thing

Gary Keller

Eliminate distractions and focus on one priority at a time to achieve meaningful, measurable results.

Pyramid Principle
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Pyramid Principle

Barbara Minto

Structure and communicate ideas clearly with a logical framework that improves how you present and persuade.

Getting Things Done
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Getting Things Done

David Allen

Gain control of your tasks, reduce stress, and build a system that helps you work more productively every day.

Essentialism
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Essentialism

Greg McKweon

Simplify your life by focusing on what matters most and eliminating everything that doesn’t contribute to your goals.

Digital Minimalism
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Digital Minimalism

Cal Newport

Reduce digital distractions, regain focus, and create a healthier relationship with technology.

Deep Work
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Deep Work

Cal Newport

Achieve peak productivity by cultivating the ability to focus deeply on meaningful tasks in a distracted world.

The 4-Hour work week
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The 4-Hour work week

Tim Ferriss

Escape the 9-to-5 grind, work less, and create the lifestyle you want while achieving more.

Atomic Habits
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Atomic Habits

James Clear

Build small, actionable habits that lead to significant, lasting personal and professional growth.

Building a Second Brain
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Building a Second Brain

Tiago Forte

Organise your knowledge effectively to boost creativity, productivity, and decision-making in your personal and professional life.

The 80/20 Principle
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The 80/20 Principle

Richard Koch

Focus on the vital few tasks that drive the most results by applying the 80/20 rule to everything you do.

Checklist Manifesto
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Checklist Manifesto

Atul Gawande

Simplify complex processes, reduce errors, and improve outcomes with the power of effective checklists.

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Google Tag Manager

Google Tag Manager makes it easy to manage tracking tags without code, so you can move faster and keep your growth data clean and reliable.

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Miro

Miro is a collaborative online whiteboard tool that enables teams to brainstorm, map workflows, and visualise ideas in real time.

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Customer.io

Customer.io is a flexible automation platform designed for precise segmentation and real-time messaging, ideal for B2B service businesses.

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Omnisend

Omnisend is an all-in-one marketing platform designed for e-commerce businesses. With powerful automation and seamless integrations, it helps businesses scale their email and SMS marketing efforts effortlessly.

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Eisenhower Matrix

Prioritise tasks effectively using the Eisenhower decision-making matrix.

Why Solid Growth works

Portrait Ewoud Uphof by Maikel Thijssen

Ewoud Uphof

I’ve helped B2B service companies scale — not with random tactics, but with clear systems that align marketing and sales into one predictable growth engine. Built on 15 years of hands-on experience — helping teams move from random tactics to repeatable, scalable results.

15 years experience

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1,500 marketers trained since 2015

Exited 6 companies

Compact yet powerful course! The Solid B2B Growth course offers a comprehensive and structured approach to understanding marketing from a global company’s perspective. It provides clear guidance on balancing key priorities and actionable steps to initiate effective strategies.

Klaas Joosten

Klaas Joosten

Founder

We aimed to improve our customers' growth strategies, and Ewoud's in-depth knowledge and steady flow of new information made every session enjoyable. With newfound inspiration, we quickly saw increased customer results. We highly recommend Ewoud, 5/5.

Menno van Gerven

Menno van Gerven

Marketing Manager

Very informative training! Ewoud is clear and also extremely likable and enthusiastic. The training has definitely helped me in my professional development.

Nino van Viegen

Nino van Viegen

Online Marketing Specialist

Great course for those who want to start optimising their webshop and online marketing but don't know where to begin. During this course, you'll receive tools with which you can immediately get to work!

Noor Jansen

Noor Jansen

Junior Online Marketeer

Further reading

Build a second brain and clear the mental clutter

The first step to regain control is a full brain dump. Empty every to-do, idea, and half-finished draft into a single inbox—paper, note app, or voice memo, it does not matter. Once nothing lurks in the back of your head, move each item into a PARA-style second brain: Projects, Areas, Resources, Archive. Projects house active campaigns; Areas store evergreen responsibilities like brand maintenance; Resources capture research snippets; Archive holds everything complete or obsolete. With every thought parked where it belongs you free working memory for problem-solving instead of remembering. Marketers I coach often reclaim an hour a day simply because they stop context-switching between forgotten tasks.

Set up a real project- and task-management hub

Spreadsheets and chat threads collapse once several channels run in parallel. Funnel every task into a dedicated project manager—Notion, ClickUp, Monday, whichever your team will actually open. Create a shared board for each growth objective and give every card three things: a clear outcome, an owner, and a due date. Tie sub-tasks to the same parent epic so designers, copywriters, and analysts see dependencies in one glance. When the board mirrors your second brain’s Projects list you always know what is on fire, what is blocked, and what can wait until tomorrow.

Leverage productivity and AI tools without the hype

AI will not fix broken processes, but it will shave minutes off routine work. Use language models to draft outline briefs, summarise call recordings, and generate first-pass subject lines. Pair them with focus tools—Pomodoro timers, calendar blockers, distraction blockers—to guard deep-work slots. The rule is simple: let software handle tasks that do not require judgement, then invest the saved time in strategic thinking, creative testing, or client conversations where human nuance matters.

Automate every repetitive hand-off

Copy-pasting leads from a webform into a CRM is a tax on growth. Map your common workflows—lead capture, campaign tagging, report distribution—and connect the dots with Zapier, Make, or native integrations. Start with low-risk automations such as Slack alerts on form submissions, then progress to bidirectional syncing between ads platforms and your analytics stack. Always build in error notifications; an automation you trust but never check can hide silent failures.

Run fewer, sharper meetings

Meetings should accelerate work, not delay it. Replace status updates with asynchronous loom videos or written check-ins. Reserve live calls for decision points that need real-time debate. Send an agenda 24 hours ahead, finish with action items in the chat, and book the next checkpoint only if open questions remain. Marketing teams adopting this rhythm regularly cut meeting time by forty per cent and report clearer ownership the very same week.

Keep knowledge searchable and evergreen

Growth produces artefacts—copy decks, SQL queries, campaign post-mortems—that compound value only when findable. Store all collateral in a shared drive or knowledge base with a strict naming convention: Date_Project_Asset. Tag each file to the same Areas and Resources you use in your second brain so retrieval takes seconds. Schedule a quarterly clean-up; stale docs breed confusion and multiply duplicate effort.

Set priorities and measurable goals

When everything is high priority, nothing ships. Adopt a simple scoring matrix—impact, confidence, ease—to rank ideas before they hit the backlog. Pair quarterly OKRs with weekly sprint goals so daily tasks ladder up to numbers that move revenue. Post the scoreboard where everyone can see it; transparency sharpens focus better than another motivational poster.

Scale systems as the team expands

A workflow that hums for three marketers can buckle at ten. Watch for rising hand-offs, access issues, and inconsistent file structures. Introduce role-based permissions, templated brief forms, and automated onboarding checklists as soon as you add new seats. Document why the system works, not just how, to preserve intent when fresh eyes join the project.

Maintain a continuous improvement loop

Tools and tactics age. Block time every quarter to audit your stack: which automations saved the most hours, which meetings remain valuable, where duplicate data crept back in. Use the findings to prune unused apps, streamline processes, and plan the next wave of experiments. Small, regular tweaks beat large, infrequent overhauls and keep the productivity flywheel turning.

Overcome overwhelm and stay ahead

Growth will always feel messy; the point is to impose just enough structure so creativity thrives instead of drowns. Implement the steps above in order—brain dump, board, AI assist, automation—and you will see bandwidth open up week by week. Share the wins with your team, refine the system, and enjoy running experiments without the creeping dread of missed tasks or forgotten follow-ups. Working smarter is not a one-time project; it is the operating system that lets every future tactic succeed.

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