Craig Bailey

Use HubSpot Better

Hi, I’m Craig Bailey and this is my personal blog where I write about technology, business systems, HubSpot, marketing strategy and general life experiences. You can read my posts here.

(If you are looking for the Content is King post by Bill Gates it is here)

I’m involved with three agencies in Sydney:

  • The first is XEN Systems. We help government departments and mid-large B2B technology companies with their sales and marketing strategy, including implementation and training in HubSpot 
  • The second is XEN Create. We provide premium graphic design services to companies, with a focus on using the latest AI tools, including Midjourney
  • The third is XEN Solar, where we help high quality solar companies (dealers, installers) with their sales and marketing processes.

I also co-host HubShots, the podcast and YouTube show focussed on getting the most out of HubSpot. We are the creators of the HubShots Framework.

Craig Bailey presenting

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Bonus: More ads

By Craig Bailey
In Google
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Not sure if this is real or doctored, but it’s pretty funny – and also spot on in terms of the ‘experience’ that Google (especially on mobile) is heading to. via Valentin Pletzer. It reminds me of when The Onion was taking the piss out of men’s razor blades – Google seems to be doing the same thing with their ad coverage: fuck everything we’re going to 5...

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You have no privacy (still)

By Craig Bailey
In Marketing
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A good insight into how much your web and app activity is tracked by advertising and third party tools. Most marketing people will be aware of this, but if outside the industry you may be shocked. New sites were the worst: Among all the sites I visited, news sites, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, had the most tracking resources. This is partly because the sites serve more...

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Modern marketing expectations

By Craig Bailey
In Marketing
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A good post from Scott Brinker, inspired by Tim Fishburne on what the expectations of a CMO are these days. From Scott’s post: The real challenge is that everything Tom listed in his strip is, indeed, what we now consider the responsibility — officially or unofficially — of marketing leadership:– Grow the business– Make customers happy– Deliver...

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HubShots 168: HubSpot Attribution

By Craig Bailey
In HubSpot
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In episode 168 of HubShots, Ian and I chat through what attribution means in terms of marketing. Turns out it means different things to people. Here’s a few different ways people think of attribution: the HubSpot timelinethe HubSpot Sources Reportthe HubSpot Attribution reportthe Google Analytics channels report These are all correct in their own context. For some enterprises though...

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How to tell if a person’s LinkedIn profile is managed by an intern

By Craig Bailey
In Social networking
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It’s pretty easy – check what they do on weekends.

Further to my post last week, if they are engaging on weekends (ie replying etc, not the scheduled updates) then there’s a good chance they are actually managing it themselves.

But if all the engagement is on weekdays (and in business hours no less!) then chances are the marketing team (and likely an intern) is managing it.

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News spinning like 2005

By Craig Bailey
In SEO
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This article from HuffPost about article spinning news sites is kinda bizarre – it’s like bad SEO from the mid-2000s all over again.

I’ll bet it started as a joke – after all they didn’t even use a decent synonym algorithm – and spiralled into success.

What’s old is new again.

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More WeWork

By Craig Bailey
In General
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And yes, another link to another WeWork discussion, this time Ben Thompson’s insightful take. Of particular interest (which I haven’t seen highlighted elsewhere), is WeWork’s ability to abandon leases: The company also has another, rather unsavory, advantage in a recession: its opaque corporate structure. While there are many downsides to the fact that the “We Company” is a...

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