Author

Roman Miranda

CRM and lifecycle

Custom objects are usually the wrong answer

A custom object looks like the flexible choice, and it is usually the expensive one. Run the object-selection pass first: most of what teams build as custom objects already exists...

Paid search

Google Ads that look good but do not convert

A campaign can be genuinely well-built and still produce nothing, because most of the metrics in the interface measure the auction rather than the business.

Paid social

Why Meta ads fail for local service businesses

Most local businesses who tried Meta and stopped hit one of four problems, and all four are structural. The creative usually was not the issue.

Email and SMS

Why email and SMS still matter

Every other channel is rented. Email and SMS are the only lists you own, and they are usually where the leads you already paid for either convert or quietly disappear.

Systems and integrations

Your CRM cannot report on a business it cannot see

If your reports feel wrong and no amount of dashboard work fixes them, the problem is probably not the dashboard. It is that the systems where the real work happens never feed the...

Strategy

The four layers underneath every growth problem

Most growth problems get treated at the layer where they are noticed rather than the layer where they are caused, which is why the fix does not hold. Here is how the four layers...

Hiring an agency

Why discovery is free and Technical Discovery is not

We will not charge you for the conversation that produces a proposal. We do charge for the phase that produces a design you can build from. The line between them is depth, and it...

Platform notes

A template change does not reach your live page

Design Manager holds the new copy. The API returns 200. The live page serves the old wording, through as many republishes as you care to run. Here is what is actually happening...

CRM and lifecycle

Make SQL a structural fact, not a judgment call

If marketing and sales argue about whether a contact is an MQL or an SQL, the problem is not alignment. It is that the stage has no definition anyone can check. Tie it to a record...

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