Hi, I’m Craig Bailey and this is my personal blog where I write about technology, business systems, HubSpot and general life experiences. You can read my posts here.

(If you are looking for the Content is King post by Bill Gates it is here)

I’m involved with three agencies in Sydney:

  • The first is XEN Systems. We help government departments and mid-large B2B technology companies with their sales and marketing strategy, including implementation and training in HubSpot 
  • The second is XEN Create. We provide premium graphic design services to companies, with a focus on using the latest AI tools, including Midjourney
  • The third is XEN Solar, where we help high quality solar companies (dealers, installers) with their sales and marketing processes.

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.

Craig Bailey presenting

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Using social media videos as a research tool

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Fascinating article covering how researchers are using video analysis to highlight potential medical behaviours: Earlier this summer, a team at England’s Keele University published a behavioral study on children with autism. But it didn’t do it by interviewing subjects, or administering questionnaires. Instead, it used YouTube videos. Bappaditya Mandal and his colleagues trained an...

Group Chat Trends

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Interesting insights from Andreessen Horowitz around the rise of Group Chats as a path to transactions. The article predominantly covers WeChat trends in China, but is applicable to many messenger apps including WhatsApp and FB Messenger, albeit with some privacy differences. In a nutshell, the Group Chat approach involves dedicated ‘concierge’ admins who help members with questions...

Define Viral: ZAO

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If you ever need a definition of the word viral, in a marketing and adoption sense, here it is in a word: Zao

What an amazing app – the easy way to self deepfake face swap into movies and shows.

Such a cool idea, released and delivered well.

And of course, subject to all kinds of security and privacy scrutiny now.

Not liking Facebook Likes

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First it was Instagram hiding likes, now Facebook itself is testing removing Likes (from the newsfeed at least). The idea is to prevent users from destructively comparing themselves to others and possibly feeling inadequate if their posts don’t get as many Likes. It could also stop users from deleting posts they think aren’t getting enough Likes or not sharing in the first place.TechCrunch...

Mike Cannon-Brookes on Imposter Syndrome

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I missed this last December – Mike shares his experiences and insights around imposter syndrome. You might assume successful people never feel like frauds. In fact, the opposite is much more likely to be true.The most successful people I know don’t question themselves â€“ but they do question their knowledge. They see asking for advice as a way of testing their...

The new B2B go-to-market

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Fascinating video from Martin Casado on the new way B2B SaaS companies are growing.

In this keynote talk from 4YFN 2019 in Barcelona, a16z General Partner Martin Casado explains the new enterprise go-to-market combination of bottoms up growth and traditional sales that is changing both the enterprise business model and the technology it sells.

via a16z blog

Ray Dalio on 3 big issues

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I enjoy reading what investors have to say about world economics, finance and trends. Ray is a favourite. His latest article on LI is perhaps not as compelling as previous ones, but interesting in its own right. However, that’s not why I’m linking to it. Instead, I find the comments from people even more interesting. So many people, so quick to belittle and dismiss. Nothing new of...

Developer’s Guide to SEO by Ian Laurie

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Excellent (final) article from Ian written for developers who want to include SEO in their planning, considerations and development.

A few notes:

The subfolder versus subdomain topic comes up again (and his advise is slightly different to what I’d say)Put videos on their own pages (I definitely agree with this one)

Recommended.

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