Turn customers into community members — how community transformed the Gymshark experience

My transformation from serving customers to nurturing a community didn’t happen overnight. It started with a crisis. Gymshark’s infamous Black Friday 2015 catastrophe happened during my first week: Our website crashed on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Orders failed. Customer support lit up. Social media exploded. We were trending — but…

These AI workflows can 10X your marketing productivity [+ video]

Time is money in marketing, so why not use AI workflows to boost productivity? I spoke with some of my colleagues at HubSpot, and they say they’ve found workflows that maximize their productivity, save time, and act as the perfect automated assistant. If you‘re looking for workflows that make your work life easier, you’ve come…

Books (and more)

Brad Feld has been contributing to and leading the tech community for more than thirty years. His books have always been inspiring and useful, but his new book takes it to a higher level. Adam Becker has written two books that I recently devoured. The first is philosophy, history and political drama, all woven together…

OpenAI secretly launched a sales agent — here are the details

In February, OpenAI gave a two-minute demonstration at a private event in Tokyo. The demo didn’t stay quiet for long. It set off a firestorm in the sales industry. The short demo, which isn’t available yet, was for an AI sales agent. This AI agent can perform autonomous tasks to help sales teams qualify, enrich,…

Which inbox?

It’s easier than ever to fall into an inbox mindset. There are things to do, and we do them. Inbox zero is the unattainable goal that fills our days. But it avoids the real question, which is: which inbox are we emptying? There’s the inbox of urgent texts. Or the inbox of slightly less urgent…

How one co-founder runs a zero-employee marketing agency with AI tools

Running a marketing agency used to mean juggling a small army of freelancers, risking missed deadlines, and spending more time managing people than creating content and building strategies. That’s how Barbara Jovanovic of Startup Cookie used to operate. She’s now built a streamlined operation that generates six figures annually with a tech stack that costs…