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.
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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.
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.
Just sharing this post here, so that I remember to read it later.
(Yes, that was supposed to be ironic)
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...
Further to my post a few days back, here’s Scott Galloway’s epic WeWork takedown. The last round $47 billion “valuation” is an illusion. SoftBank invested at this valuation with a “pref,” meaning their money is the first money out, limiting the downside. The suckers, idiots, CNBC viewers, great Americans, and people trying to feel young again who buy on the...
Such a wonderful interview with Matt Mullenweg by The Verge, discussing Automattic’s purchase of Tumblr. Put aside the riches to rags story of Tumblr (sold to Yahoo for $1.1B in 2013, sold to Automattic for $3M in 2019 – supposably) and instead focus on the well meaning intent of both Verizon and Automattic: Their top priority was not trying to maximize the purchase price. There might...
A good post from Databox outlining a ton of SEO myths.
The only one I’d quibble with is #40 – about hosting a blog on a subdomain (or even another domain). In the article they state that hosting a blog on a subdomain is a bad idea.
I’d simply counter this by saying that it hasn’t hurt HubSpot’s blog.
btw we covered this in depth in episode 157 of HubShots.
This post by Seth is spot on. Social networks have amplified this desire, at the same time they simplified the execution. Now you can waste time and dignity instead of money. Who can you tear down? How much time can you waste? What’s it worth to you to have more followers than the others?It’s a lousy game, because if you lose, you lose, and if you win, you also lose.The only way to do well is...
It’s hard to get your head around the We Company train wreck that is heading this way.
Elizabeth Lopatto’s post on The Verge is a masterpiece in shining the light on impending chaos. Kinsey Grant at Morning Brew is a little more restrained, but equally dubious.
Who on earth will be buying shares?
Interesting to read through the speculation on this thread, related to the negative organic impact that examine.com has recently experienced. The post from Kamal (co-founder of Examine) is useful reading. These things happen. I’m somewhat heartened that Danny has replied here, but not overly hopeful. This situation is unfortunately a reality in the organic search space. It happens all the...
No matter what side you are on (if any) over the Jeffrey Epstein suicide, chances are you didn’t need much convincing – as noted by the New York Times.
An opinion, based on nothing but a headline, is all you need these days. As I lamented recently.