Entrepreneur, Professional Learner, & Proud Failure. Writes about sales, marketing, and entrepreneurship from the eyes of a learning and development nerd. Lead teams, manage people, scale a business, and learn better through the biweekly irreverent newsletter, the TL;DR.
The TL;DR, From Two Hats To One
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A bi-weekly roundup of how to focus on just one thing September 7 - September 20 Hanging Up My Startup Boston HatFor the past two years, I've been the Everything Else drawer at Startup Boston as Head of Operations and then COO. Many of you that subscribe to this newsletter met me through Startup Boston! As Learn to Scale continues to niche down into the world of marketing agencies, I've stepped away from Startup Boston to better service our current and future Learn to Scale clients. Rest assured, this newsletter will continue to be chock full of business insights for small but growing organizations, employee engagement techniques, and leadership advice for anyone navigating entrepreneurship...and of course, updates from CRO Roman Noodles. If this isn't for you, clean up your inbox and unsubscribe from the TL;DR now: Opt-out from the newsletter If this content tickles your bones, let me know which topic(s) YOU want to hear more of:
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A TL;DR from the CROI get groomed every quarter- your email list should too! -Roman Noodles, Chief Ruff Officer Wait, What's This About Marketing Agencies?If you missed it in the last TL;DR, Learn to Scale has been doing quite a bit of market research around small marketing agencies. The verdict: marketing agencies have common and totally solvable problems that I enjoy eating for breakfast. Learn more about the research, the results, and the changes going on at Learn to Scale in our concise blog post below.
I've been at the Hubspot Inbound conference all week hanging out with one of my clients learning about how breathless marketers are about AI. Every session: AI! And now with more AI! Look at how handy it is, it can summarize things! It can make more of what you already make! Things will get hard, because, you know, AI. But fortunately, we put more AI into stuff. The good news is that AI won't be stealing your jobs, unless your job is to do cool stuff that people didn't really ask for. If that's your actual job: watch out. Artificially skeptical, Dan from Learn to Scale Opt-out from the newsletter | Unsubscribe from all emails | Update your Preferences | www.learntoscale.us, Boston, MA 02119 PS. Watch this sales call and customers will be threatening that you take their money. |
Dan Newman
Entrepreneur, Professional Learner, & Proud Failure. Writes about sales, marketing, and entrepreneurship from the eyes of a learning and development nerd. Lead teams, manage people, scale a business, and learn better through the biweekly irreverent newsletter, the TL;DR.
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