Maker schedule

Protect long uninterrupted blocks for deep work that requires concentration by clustering meetings and separating them from creative and analytical time.

Maker schedule

Maker schedule

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Demand generation

Build your channel strategy and optimise each channel, so you grow traffic strategically without burning budget.

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Demand generation tools

Demand generation tools

Pipeline doesn't fill itself. These tools help you identify who to target, reach them at scale, and create content that earns attention in crowded markets.

Stages of awareness

Stages of awareness

Demographics don't determine what message resonates. Belief stage does. Map what people need to believe at each stage and your campaigns will resonate instead of falling flat.

Channel selection

Channel selection

Spreading budget across every channel guarantees mediocrity. Focus on the channels where your buyers actually spend attention and scale what works before expanding.

Ad creative testing

Ad creative testing

Most teams waste ad spend testing randomly. A structured approach to creative testing compounds your learnings so every campaign performs better than the last.

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Buy back your time

Dan Martell

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Buy back your time

A straight guide to reclaiming hours. Define your buyback rate, document tasks and build small systems that pay back every week.

Slow productivity

Cal Newport

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Slow productivity

A humane approach to output. Plan seasons, protect focus and deliver work that matters at a sustainable pace.

Getting Things Done

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Getting Things Done

Capture, clarify and review without friction. Keep projects moving with weekly reviews and clear next actions.

Digital Minimalism

Cal Newport

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Digital Minimalism

How to reduce low value tools and feeds. Practical steps to tidy notifications, choose channels and free up time for impact.

Deep Work

Cal Newport

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Deep Work

A playbook for concentration in modern teams. Set focus blocks, reduce context switching and build a culture that values deep work.

Atomic Habits

James Clear

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Atomic Habits

Turn habit theory into daily practice for marketers. Simple cues, tiny wins and scorecards that help teams deliver consistently under pressure.

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How to plan your week like a pro

Manage your time like your ad budget. Get the highest ROI from your hours with personal audits, ideal-week calendars, and timeboxing.

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Collaboration tools

Where your team communicates shapes how decisions get made. Good collaboration tools make information easy to find and keep conversations focused.

Wiki

Spam score

Evaluate email content and sending practices to identify elements that trigger spam filters before sending campaigns that might damage deliverability.

Warm-up

Gradually increase sending volume from new domains to build reputation with inbox providers and avoid being marked as spam when scaling outreach quickly.

Engagement

Measure likes, comments, and shares to evaluate content resonance and algorithmic distribution on social platforms that reward interactions with reach.

On-page SEO

Optimise individual pages for target keywords by improving titles, headings, content, and internal links to help search engines understand topic relevance.

Click-through-rate

The percentage of impressions that result in a click to your website or landing page.

Maker schedule

Protect long uninterrupted blocks for deep work that requires concentration by clustering meetings and separating them from creative and analytical time.

Cost-per-X

Master the economics of customer acquisition by tracking what you pay for each meaningful action across channels.

Paid search

Capture high-intent prospects actively searching for solutions by bidding on relevant keywords and appearing in search engine results.

Landing page

Create focused standalone pages for paid campaigns that remove distractions and guide visitors toward one specific action to improve conversion rates.

Bounce rate

Track emails that fail delivery to maintain sender reputation and avoid being marked as spam by continuing to email invalid addresses that hurt deliverability.

Reply rate

Measure what percentage of cold emails get responses to evaluate message quality and list targeting rather than sending more emails to poor prospects.

Inbox zero

Process email to empty daily by deciding whether to act, defer, delegate, or delete each message rather than leaving unread items as false to-do lists.

Internal linking

Connect related pages through contextual links to help search engines understand site structure and spread authority whilst improving user navigation.

Cold email

Reach prospects who don't know you by sending personalised outreach that offers value and starts conversations rather than pitching products immediately.

Paid social advertising

Target prospects based on demographic, firmographic, and behavioural data, interrupting their social feeds with relevant offers and content.

Domain authority

Build cumulative site-wide ranking power through quality backlinks and strong content so new pages rank faster than competitors starting from scratch.

Email deliverability

Ensure emails reach inboxes rather than spam folders by maintaining sender reputation, authenticating properly, and following anti-spam best practices consistently.

Content pillar

Create comprehensive hub pages on core topics that link to related subtopic content to establish topical authority and improve rankings across topic clusters.

Keyword research

Identify search terms your customers use to create content that ranks organically and bid on paid terms that drive qualified traffic at profitable costs.

Cost per click (CPC)

Calculate what you pay each time someone clicks your ad to evaluate channel efficiency and determine if paid traffic costs justify the leads generated.