Hot take: most businesses don’t need more marketing.
They need fewer leaks.
More leads won’t fix a broken follow-up process.
More content won’t fix a disconnected customer journey.
More AI tools won’t fix a workflow nobody understands.
And more automation won’t fix a bad process — it will just make the bad process run faster.
The work I enjoy most starts with a different question:
Where is the system actually breaking?
Sometimes it’s between marketing and sales.
Sometimes it’s inside the CRM.
Sometimes nobody owns the next step.
Sometimes valuable intent is there — but no one is recognizing it.
That thinking is behind a lot of the work I’ve been building lately: marketing operations, CRM workflows, automation systems, investor/customer journeys, event marketing, and digital growth.
I recently added several new projects and strategic case studies to my Contra portfolio — including an Investor Growth System exploring how content, intent signals, CRM, automation, and human relationships can work as one system.
My favorite principle from the project:
Automation should prepare the conversation — not replace the relationship.
If you work in marketing, operations, or growth, I’m curious:
What’s the biggest “leak” you see inside businesses today?
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Hot take: most businesses don’t need more marketing. They need fewer leaks. More leads won’t fix a broken follow-up process. More content won’t fix a disconn...
