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Sunday July, 2025
Too many bots

Hey all

The number of bots in r/Marketing and on Reddit in general is out of control. Every month it's getting much worse, and soon it'll reach a point where it becomes unmanageable from a moderation perspective.

I personally remove the bot posts and comments, and ban the bot accounts, …

Why are the loudest critics of PowerPoint the ones who never learned to use it well?

Are we blaming PowerPoint for boring ideas — or lazy minds?

Byron Sharp is a clown

The majority of his activities on LinkedIn consist of nothing but attacking others instead of proving his worth.

The ideas in how brands grow are conceptually good, but they need much more work that he didn't prove to be capable of supporting.

Speaking from experience in two organizations that signed …

Why are there so many poor marketers?

I have been running my own IT Consulting business for over 20 years and haven't been able to ever hire a decent marketer. I am paying $US 100k , so maybe I should pay more... But no at that level, I would expect someone who can fully understand pain points …

The Real Challenge.

The Real Challenge.

I need a brutally honest feedback. Am I a bad at marketing or the product is just bad?

Working on a product and I don't know if it I just suck at communicating value or if the product really sucks.

Short version: It's like a "collaboration" platform where you can create groups, add people (friends, clients, whatever), chat, video call, etc. But main feature is sometimes we call …

Is email marketing agency work dying in 2025, or just evolving?

I've been in the marketing space for a while, and I’m seeing mixed signals lately.

Some folks are saying email’s losing its edge "open rates dropping, brands focusing more on SMS, community, ads, etc."
Others are still pulling 20–40% of revenue from email alone.

As someone exploring or actively working …

Home services marketing costs

For all you guys in the home services space.

Current revenue $10mil. Marketing at 10%-15% using a fractional cmo

What do you think is the right percentage of revenue spend to grow 10-20% per year?

With no fractional cmo what should we be paying for

Seo PPC Social management Tech …

Can anyone help me understand how to promo on X?

So this is a personal post on X and after I upload the text/tags/video clip... I promote. I see in the ad manager that it says "Untitled Ad" and then I see the "appeal" so I appeal and it gets declined.

I hoover over the "Untitled" part and it says …

How important is marketing theory (i.e courses) in a marketing career?

I come from a non-marketing background.
I completed a degree in biochemistry then decided to enter into healthcare marketing.
I've been working for around 3 years. Everything I know about marketing, I learned on the job and on-hands experience. Now I'm wondering whether I should take courses to refine and …

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