10/6/2026 4:44:25 PM Yesterday marked a huge milestone: 700 episodes of #TimTalk By Tim Hughes If you went back to July 22nd, 2016, you would have met someone who was deeply uncomfortable on video. Stepping behind the mic wasn't...
10/6/2026 7:21:00 AM How to get Attribution, from a Social Media Post, all the way to Revenue By Tim Hughes When I started in social media some 17 years ago, people saw it as a fad. They told me it would be over by Christmas. I was insistent:...
10/5/2026 9:39:39 AM Your Content Library Has All the Answers (Isn't it Time You Put it to Work) By Tim Hughes I was reading an article the other week about digital asset management (DAM) technology. A place where you store your content. The...
10/4/2026 4:11:23 AM Accidental Hipster: How Being Cheap Made Me Cool Again By Tim Hughes I recently hit an unwelcome milestone in adulthood: having to pay for my own Spotify. For the last decade, my mobile provider, Vodafone,...
10/3/2026 4:31:47 AM Soundtracks and Papal Visits: Life Behind the BBC Mic By Tim Hughes I’ve mentioned before that my dad worked for the BBC, a job that eventually brought our family to the Midlands when he transferred to the...
10/2/2026 7:40:41 AM Do your prospects have a sales call bingo card? By Tim Hughes I recently came across a LinkedIn post where a Sales Leader banned account executives from doing product demos on discovery calls. It...
10/1/2026 4:07:49 AM Between the Covers: Key Takeaways from 10 Industry Trailblazers By Tim Hughes Here are the ten business books that have shaped my thinking most recently, a mix of bold ideas, sharp insights, and a few genuine...
9/30/2026 7:12:19 AM “You don’t need to write prompts anymore.” Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI By Tim Hughes Generic AI prompts are a dead end for your company. If your entire AI strategy relies on employees typing queries into ChatGPT, you have...
9/29/2026 7:47:22 AM Unpopular opinion: An AI Agent without coaching is just expensive shelfware By Tim Hughes A few years back, the team at Rentokil told us about a vendor who pitched them an "immaculate conception" sales tool, promising leads...
9/28/2026 1:28:58 PM Why 94% of Companies Are Failing with AI (and How the 6% Are Winning) By Tim Hughes Almost every business is using AI today. Yet almost none of them are actually getting results. According to research from HubSpot, who...
9/27/2026 4:16:09 AM Phuket Unfiltered: A Luxury Resort Escape, a Chatty Taxi Driver, and an Unexpected Sales Pitch By Tim Hughes I remembered the other day a trip to Phuket. It’s an island off Thailand, and after standardizing ourselves in Bangkok, the plan for...
9/26/2026 4:14:49 AM The Great Upton Snodsbury Underwear Dash By Tim Hughes I’ve mentioned before that my mother is an absolute force of nature when it comes to event planning, particularly if there’s a charitable...
9/25/2026 8:26:24 AM "We turned it on Monday morning... and nothing happened." By Tim Hughes "We turned it on Monday morning... and nothing happened."Years ago, we visited Rentokil just after they’d invested in a shiny new sales...
9/24/2026 7:42:35 AM Azpertilo Case Study: Professional Services By Tim Hughes We’ve had an accountant in the professional services space using Azpertilo every single day. He’s a bit of an outlier compared to our...
9/23/2026 7:58:28 AM Not all got-to-markets (GTMs) are the same By Tim Hughes One of the biggest fallacies in sales and marketing today is the idea that every go-to-market (GTM) action is the same. It’s treated as...
9/22/2026 8:02:57 AM How Helen Mackenzie Books 6 High-Quality ICP Meetings Every Single Week By Tim Hughes What if your sales team could consistently book 6 high-value meetings a week without burning out? On a recent episode of our podcast, The...