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Sep 30, 2025 6 min read

The Near-Death List: Metrics Every Leader Must Automate Before Disaster Strikes

Weekly dashboards aren’t enough. This guide shows leaders how to automate early-warning KPIs—cash on hand, unshipped orders, spending spikes, downtime, and churn—so you get real-time alerts, clear response owners, and practiced drills before issues turn into disasters.

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Brandon Lind

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Sep 25, 2025 6 min read

Payroll Panic to Calm: Saving Cash Flow With AI Scheduling

If payroll week feels like a fire drill, AI scheduling can turn chaos into control. Learn how to forecast staffing, cut overtime, and stabilize cash flow with a quick, low‑risk rollout.

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Brandon Lind

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A diverse small-business team in a bright, modern workspace watches scattered digital story icons—DM bubbles, blog posts, product photos, and glowing customer quotes—funnel into an organized, glowing content pipeline and a color‑coded calendar, conv

Sep 23, 2025 7 min read

Storytelling Systems: Automating Your Best Narratives Into Marketing Gold

Your best brand stories are getting lost in inboxes and DMs. Build a capture-to-content pipeline that collects, tags, and automates narratives into on-brand blogs, socials, and emails—saving hours and boosting engagement.

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Brandon Lind

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Sep 19, 2025 6 min read

Magic in the Feed: Automated Curation for Inspiration that Matters

Inspiration overload is real. Replace manual mood-board busywork with an automated curation engine that filters by brand vibe, tags assets, spots microtrends, and frees your team to create.

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Brandon Lind

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A stressed marketer at a cluttered desk at night, blank laptop screen glowing amid coffee cups and sticky notes, with a city skyline in the window—capturing anxious yet hopeful pre-launch tension.

Sep 16, 2025 6 min read

A/B Creativity: Testing Wild Ideas Before They Go Public

Bold ideas don’t have to be all-or-nothing. Use A/B tests to pit your wildest concepts against safe standards, gather real results fast, and scale what actually works—without risking your brand.

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Brandon Lind

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Sep 12, 2025 5 min read

Collective Brilliance: Coordinating Team Ideas Without Killing the Magic

Group brainstorms don’t have to fizzle. Use a simple three-phase format—solo idea dump, visible sharing, and a time-boxed remix—to protect bold ideas, avoid groupthink, and turn collaboration into real outcomes.

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Brandon Lind

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Sep 5, 2025 6 min read

The Art of Unusual Data: Automating Insights That Spark Curiosity Not Just Reports

Most dashboards confirm what you already know. Learn how simple automations can surface oddities and outliers that spark curiosity, debate, and real business change.

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Brandon Lind

Strategy & Mindset

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Sep 2, 2025 5 min read

Offbeat Outreach: Using Automation for Quirky Marketing Campaigns

Struggling to be seen? Pair offbeat ideas with smart automations—witty auto-comments, surprise emails, viral tools, and trackable links—to scale delight and engagement. Keep your voice; let tech do the heavy lifting.

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Brandon Lind

Practical How-Tos

A cheerful, animated chatbot with expressive eyes and a headset greets a smiling customer from a digital front desk in a bright small-business setting, with playful icons and the text overlay: “How to Give Your Chatbot a Human Spark.”

Aug 22, 2025 6 min read

Customer Service With Sass: Bringing Personality to Your Chatbots

Tired of robotic support? This guide shows how to infuse brand voice, humor, and empathy into your chatbot—complete with checklists, examples, and quick wins that boost CSAT, loyalty, and ROI.

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Brandon Lind

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Aug 19, 2025 6 min read

Add Sparkle to Compliance: Making Corporate Operations Less Dull

Compliance doesn’t have to drain your team. Learn how automating drive backups, SOP creation, budget tracking, and knowledge capture turns audits into a non-event—and fuels growth.

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Brandon Lind

Practical How-Tos

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Aug 15, 2025 6 min read

Email Magic Tricks: Fresh Ways to Automate Your Outbox and Inbox

Inbox chaos doesn’t have to be a given. This guide shows practical, real-world automations—rollups, AI-drafted replies, and smart follow-ups—that cut email time while keeping your voice personal.

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Brandon Lind

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Photo-realistic scene of a busy small ecommerce warehouse during a shipping rush: shelves stacked with boxes, workers sorting orders, papers and sticky notes scattered, and one staffer at a desk juggling packing slips and customer emails, conveying the st

Aug 12, 2025 6 min read

Order Ops Breakdown: Which Order Processes to Automate First

Manual order processing crumbles as volume grows. This guide shows what to automate first—unshipped tracking, backorder follow-ups, pick lists, order entry, and customer updates—to cut errors and reclaim time.

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