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25 yrs in MarTech. One of the original growth hackers. CEO @ https://teapawt.net/t.co/MdCM2A9eKV, founder of https://teapawt.net/t.co/vG4oOB2COp. Author of Build Cool Sh*t. Barcelona and Orlando!

Barcelona and Orlando
Joined November 2011
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Adam Robinson is gone, and it's a huge loss for marketing. Adam founded RB2B and Retention.com. He was one of the biggest characters in marketing. He was a good guy, and so helpful. His family and kids were on the jet with him.
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I can't imagine what the people around them are going through. A lot of us probably watched Adam on TikTok or YouTube a few days ago. He will be sadly missed. #AdamRobinson #RB2B #MarketingCommunity
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The most frustrating thing as a content creator is forgetting to hit record. I shot a great video at an amazing venue. Never pressed the button. The phone saved none of it.
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AI agents can create more work than your team can finish. The agent is the easy part. The hard part? Prioritizing the work and building a system where humans and agents actually ship—not just start.
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Even when you do have the system, you can create more work than your humans can handle. So prioritization becomes the real skill. The cost of the agent, compared to the human effort to get something live, is still the blocker.
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One thing ChatGPT Codex does better than Claude Cowork: starting fresh AI sessions. When a project gets too long, I can tell Codex to start a new session with a handoff brief. With Cowork, I use scheduled tasks as a workaround. Both work. Codex just takes fewer steps.
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Marketing ops treats attribution like a credit fight. Who won, who gets blamed. Your CFO cares about a different question: where does the next dollar go? You can't get there when your UTM links are a mess. That's what I built UTM.io to do.
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It's Saturday and I'm already in my context graph, building AI stuff while everyone else sleeps in. Everyone says I need a hobby. This is the hobby.
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That new marketing tool you're eyeing won't fix your problem. It comes down to 3 things: process you architect from day 1, use cases that match the tools you own, and a team that can actually use what you bought. Most teams don't need another tool. Stop buying more tools.
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The hard part: your team already can't keep up with what you have. They still don't know the last 3 tools you bought. You don't need a new tool, you need better process and better-skilled people.
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The number one thing slowing companies down is disconnected tools. Your email tool and your analytics tool each hold half the story and never talk. A tech stack is hard to build, so teams buy more. Integrate your current tools better and you'll be able to do a whole lot more.
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It drives me nuts. I'll be mid-conversation realizing a company could do so much more if they just wired together what they already pay for.
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Your email program might be driving more revenue than your reports show. Bad UTMs could be why. And AI agents building emails are making it harder to manage. We're showing how to fix it live on Oct 29 at 2 PM ET. 45 minutes. Demo + Q&A. Register: web.utm.io/resources/webinar…
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Ontology is the newest buzzword in AI. What it comes down to is naming convention. It's for big data stacks wiring a bunch of AI tools together. All it does is name your data. Then a table maps those names across your tools. Fancy word, simple job.
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I'll admit it sounded way fancier than it is when I first heard it. But skip it and your departments can't share data. Your tools can't either. Ontology is just naming your data and mapping it across every tool.
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My AI agents are still working and I can't do anything. So I'm editing TikTok videos on my phone, then adding them to the system for the agents to run. It's a different life as a CEO than it was 5 years ago.
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Marketing ops teams do a lot of Marketo and Salesforce work by hand. I think AI agents take over more of it within 18 to 24 months. Attention to detail and clear feedback become the job. The human becomes the reviewer.
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Anthropic's Claude is too wordy. Ask one question, then a long windup before the answer. OpenAI's ChatGPT gets to it faster.
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Claude audited my calendar for my team. AI agents take a big share of my time. I'm fine with that, because our value, let data create transparency, covers me too. We live our values day in and day out.
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