Embracing Marketing Mistakes

← Embracing Marketing Mistakes21 Jul · 40 min

EP 120: We Fired 30 People and Nothing Changed

EP 120: We Fired 30 People and Nothing Changed21 Jul40 min

A growth lead at a fast-scaling startup admits the truth: his old company cut a 30-person marketing and sales team, and sales didn't change at all. In this episode, Hector Hughes explains why a year of growth work, SEO, conversion rate optimization, and endless website testing achieved almost nothing, and how that failure led him to build Unplugged, a digital detox retreat business now serving thousands of guests across the UK and Spain. He breaks down why "tracking everything results in trac...