Craig Bailey

Pricing your services is hard.

Part of living life well, it seems, is intentionally thinking through what we pursue more of, and what we pursue less of.

A quick observation There’s a surge of social discussion (LinkedIn, Twitter mainly) about connecting Claude to HubSpot for tasks that HubSpot already handles natively, often more effectively.

I’ve been posting every month or so on Substack.

Two typical ways companies charge for AI: Consumption pricing — you use an agent, you pay per use.

Most of the vibe coded CRM ‘products’ I see breathlessly announced on social (mainly X, but I see them as screenshots on Threads funnily enough) seem to be just Temu HubSpot.

Part of streamlining life and business is the action of consolidation.

People are completely overwhelmed.

The process of adding new features, tools and AI garnish to a software platform, with the effect of overwhelming and alienating the original customer base who loved it for its intuitiveness and ease of use.

As a business owner it can be easy to fall into a reductionist mindset and assume everything is a business problem to be solved.

Doing what you Hate so you can do what you Love I’ve been chatting about strategic grind with the team lately.

It seems there are (at least) two levels of stupid.

Panels at Events (conferences, trade shows) are essentially the seafood extender of the event.

This year my theme is: Streamline Across everything: life, business, health, wealth, relationships… I’ve even streamlined my work office, moving to a smaller, simpler office, removing a ton of stuff accumulated over the years.

One of the side effects of being on social too much is that our patience reduces drastically – to the point where even being on social we get frustrated… We’re scrolling through our social feed and a post catches our eye.

Often the difference between good and great is due to nuance.

Look around.

The Inverse Mission Law states: In a conversation, the time taken to state your company mission is inversely proportional to the dishonesty of that mission.

When I read this note from Dare, it really hit home: Being an AI-enabled worker is essentially about letting AI do all of your work and being competent enough to review & catch its errors.This leads to two outcomes:1.

Interesting to consider how low our standards of ‘quality’ have dropped in light of the inconsistent experiences we have with AI tools.

HubSpot launched their new marketing playbook – Loop Marketing – a few weeks back at their INBOUND conference.

Steve Wozniak recently commented about wealth and success.

Drowning in HubSpot Updates?

When we first chat with new clients about their HubSpot portals, an early topic is about connecting their advertising platforms into HubSpot.

(Disclaimer: AI wrote this blog post based on my YouTube video here.)

The topic of communities, a concept that has existed for decades, is currently undergoing a significant transformation.

Most people I chat with don’t use all the AI features being forced on them in Google Workspace.

Last week I attended HubSpot’s GROW event in Sydney.

I was leaving the office late the other night, and chatted with the cleaners.

If you know me, you know I’m not the ‘networking’ type – instead I’m the ‘hide in the corner’ type.