Marketing

I left a brutally honest, anonymous review on Glassdoor about my toxic ex-agency, and the CEO just sent me a passive-aggressive message on LinkedIn saying the industry is small. He didn't explicitly a...

Do you think it always holds true that you should never say anything negative about the last employer? I have been interviewing a lot of people and I don’t think there is anyone I’ve interviewed that ...

Am I being too old school here? I'm managing a summer intern who delivers on their work and meets deadlines. The one thing that throws me is they join all of our meetings from their phone. Even when I...

Is it even worth job searching right now when you’re employed? I don’t feel like I’m growing, but I also don’t see how it’s worth kicking off a job search in this current state of everything, especial...

I’ve noticed that every Sunday around 4 PM, my chest gets incredibly tight, and I start getting a headache just thinking about Monday’s status meeting. I love the actual work of marketing, but the tox...

I’ve been laid off for four months, and I keep getting rejected for mid-level roles because I’m too senior and they assume I’ll leave the moment a better job opens up. I am literally telling these rec...

How do you all combat cognitive overload when everything on your plate is a top priority? I have 84 tabs open across three screens with everything from Google Analytics dashboards to competitive ad li...

Do you think you can really evolve staying in one org and do you need to switch companies to gain perspective? I used to think jumping ship was a bad sign but now i'm in an org where most people are...

I’ve started a personal revolution where I keep my camera turned off during internal status meetings, and the pushback from HR has been wild. They told me it’s a performance issue and that I’m not dem...

When I was 23, I was working 60-hour weeks, attending every industry networking night, and dreaming of becoming a CMO by 30. Now I’m 31, and my ultimate professional dream is a quiet 9-to-5 where nobo...

I’m sure some of you have seen FIFA’s pettiness for brands not affiliated with them. They’ve made stadiums cover up their names if they don’t give FIFA money which is unbelievably lame. That being s...

What kind of bag are you using to bring your computer and stuff to and from the office/cafes/wherever you work? I have a backpack that works just fine, but sometimes I feel like a little kid with thei...

If anyone doing any direct mail? I want to build a target account program for a client now that people are back in the office. It used to hit really well for me with potential clients. I’m just wonder...

Can we talk about the eternal war between copywriters who write three paragraphs for an ad banner and designers who only left room for five words? I just spent an hour trying to cram a legal disclosur...

I swear 90% of the marketing content on LinkedIn is just people plagiarizing the same three ideas over and over again. Someone posts a generic framework about The 3 hooks that scaled our SaaS, and by ...

💭 How/when do you disclose that you were let go from your last job in an interview?

I’m currently in the nonprofit field and have been all of my career. I come to new applications with 5 years of marketing, copywriting, and PR experience. I have applied to close to 100 jobs in the la...

I am currently facing a choice between a vertical promotion to Manager with a 5% raise and a mountain of stress, or a lateral move to a different department with the same pay but a much healthier cult...

I am expected to travel to our annual user conference next weekend, work 14-hour days managing the registration booth and making content, and I’m getting zero extra comp time for it. Leadership treats...

How do you gently tell a manager that their over-communication is actively hurting you? My new manager has started recording 10-minute Loom videos to critique single social media graphics, down to the...