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Are Chromebooks finally good enough for university students?

If you’ve watched the video below, you’ll already have seen me open with a familiar refrain: Chromebooks used to be the “cheap but sad” option. For years, they were the laptop equivalent of instant noodles; functional, affordable, and absolutely nobody’s first choice. But as you’ll hear in the video, not

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B2B growth doesn’t end at closed-won

What happens after the sale increasingly determines whether a customer becomes a source of retention, expansion, and advocacy. For founders, this is also a capital-efficiency issue. Every customer acquired carries a cost, a revenue expectation, and an opportunity to expand. When value realization is slow or fragmented, acquisition spending becomes

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Marketing Bureaucrazy is Eroding Your Brand

TL;DR Everyone is quoting Lippincott’s stat that only 28% of CMOs have “very high” organizational influence. But the number that should scare you is the one nobody’s talking about: nearly 80% say bureaucracy regularly interferes with decision-making, and fewer than half say marketing operates with real autonomy.  That’s not a

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How agentic AI is reshaping media buying at agencies

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify There’s a lot of promise in agentic media buying. The issue is in the governance. Butler/Till should know. The independent media agency has been testing programmatic media buying agents for months now, concluding at least half a dozen new tests since May, Scott Ensign, chief

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