8 July 2024
This week's additions focus on marketing, strategy, and leadership, with new digests from Ryan Deiss, Dan Martell, and TK Kader. Highlights include Why documenting everything wastes time and kills adoption A business is born when someone pays — not when you build
Showing 35 digests for 8 July 2024.
Five HR processes every solo HR leader should document
HR Party of One
July 11, 2024
Processes & SOPs
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
Undocumented processes break when the only HR person leaves
Offboarding paperwork gaps create compliance and legal risk
Payroll and open enrollment both need step-by-step written procedures
Building a small business without losing your mind: advice from Kona Ice founder Tony Lamb
How I Built This with Guy Raz
July 11, 2024
SEO
9
Founder interviews
9
Product-market fit
8
A candy store hit $400k year one — now, should it franchise?
Bigger isn't better: the real cost of unchecked business growth
Marketing an unknown product category from zero budget
Six-step business process management framework for small teams
Layla at ProcessDriven
July 11, 2024
Processes & SOPs
9
Management
5
Fix one broken process at a time — not everything at once.
Your team already knows the fix; you just haven't asked.
Business chaos is a growth signal, not a failure sign.
Bold kindness: leading with vulnerability and human connection
Bill Gallagher
July 10, 2024
Culture building
9
Management
7
Hiring & recruitment
5
Why removing the word 'manager' unlocks self-led teams
Sharing a spouse's terminal illness deepened her whole organisation
Real relationships — not dashboards — are what drive performance
Cintas: how a rag-cleaning business became America's dominant uniform rental company
Business Breakdowns
July 10, 2024
Case studies
9
Retention & loyalty
7
Unit economics
6
96% customer retention means the average Cintas customer stays 25 years
Scale makes Cintas five times more profitable on assets than its nearest rival
Corporate culture — not product — is why customers choose Cintas over dozens of alternatives
Automation & tools
YouTube
Schedule a month of social content in two clicks with Semrush
Semrush
July 10, 2024
Automation & tools
9
Social media
7
Post to every social platform simultaneously from one place
Upload a CSV to schedule a full month in two clicks
A free spreadsheet template does the planning for you
What second-time founders do differently when building a B2B SaaS
EO
July 10, 2024
Niche selection
10
Customer discovery
7
Pricing strategy
6
Get five paying customers before writing a single line of code
Retrofitting a consumer product to enterprise needs almost always fails
If a business won't pay $50/month, the problem isn't big enough
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Ditching the smartphone: lessons from 200 days with a flip phone
How I Work
July 10, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
6
200 days without a smartphone sharpened thinking and creativity dramatically
Messaging friction on flip phones quietly eroded real-world relationships
Factory reset your iPhone and reinstall only tools — no entertainment
How to cascade priorities across your organisation
Bill Gallagher
July 9, 2024
Management
9
Business operating systems
6
Setting priorities only works when everyone's tied to the same ones
Each person needs 3 personal priorities with a named company link
Regular meeting rhythms and dashboards keep the cascade alive
Seven key findings from the 2024 State of Independent SaaS report
Startups For the Rest of Us
July 9, 2024
Pricing strategy
8
Business models
7
Growth hacking
6
No-credit-card free trials deliver 2x the lifetime value.
Three co-founders grow 2–3x faster than solo or duo teams.
Enterprise targets grow ~26% monthly; consumers average just 5%.
Content marketing
YouTube
How to turn YouTube views into high-value clients using targeted content
Sunny Lenarduzzi
July 9, 2024
Content marketing
9
Prospecting & outreach
7
7,300 views generated $178K — $24 per view vs AdSense's $0.03
Hot, hyper-targeted content converts buyers; broad content only builds awareness
Retention above 40% is the metric that drives algorithmic reach
Organic social media is now the most important marketing skill
GaryVee
July 9, 2024
Social media
10
Content marketing
8
The first second of a video determines its entire chance of success.
Fortune 500 companies waste 90 cents per dollar on outdated marketing channels.
New accounts with no followers can reach millions if the content earns it.
Compliance & regulation
YouTube
What is an HR audit and the main types to know
HR Party of One
July 9, 2024
Compliance & regulation
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Waiting for problems before auditing means you're already behind
Six distinct audit types, each targeting a different compliance risk
Internal audits are your best defence against external IRS scrutiny
Productivity & habits
Podcast
How to build a journaling practice rooted in Stoic philosophy
The Daily Stoic
July 9, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
7
Mental health & wellbeing
5
Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations for himself — not for readers
Paper outlasts devices: da Vinci's notebooks beat your old iPhone
Start with one sentence a day — momentum beats ambition every time
Work-life balance
Podcast
Building spiritual practices across daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual rhythms
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
July 8, 2024
Work-life balance
9
Productivity & habits
6
Create a rule of life with five time cycles—daily to annual—to prevent burnout and build presence.
Monthly desert days (9–4 off-site, phone-free) unlock insight through radical understimulation and no expectations.
Start with one rhythm you can actually protect; let it teach you what you need before adding others.