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Featured · Marketing Ops·5 min read·July 16, 2026

Which Marketing Automation Is Worth It for a Small Business

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Automations that pay
7
Logins to see your own marketing
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Seven Logins Later, You Still Cannot Answer One Question

The question is simple: is this working? The reason it is hard to answer has nothing to do with the answer.

July 9, 2026
Dozens
Tools, barely used
Marketing Ops · 5 min

The Software You Bought and Never Opened

Marketing software is sold on capability and paid for by the month. The gap between those two facts is where a lot of budget…

June 20, 2026
6
Questions per vendor
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The Vendor Sprawl Checklist

Six questions per vendor, run down the list once a year. It usually removes two of them and improves results.

April 9, 2026
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A month, unbilled and unnoticed
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The Time Tax on Running Your Own Marketing

The expensive part of doing your own marketing is not the software or the ad spend. It is the hours, and they never appear on…

January 8, 2026
6
Things you actually need
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The Minimum Viable Marketing Toolkit

Six things. Everything beyond them is optional, and most of what businesses buy sits outside the list.

October 14, 2025

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