Decoding Growth
Decoding Growth is where Aly from Gather 'n' Grow decodes what's actually going on underneath your marketing, sales, and ops. After 10 years inside businesses as a HubSpot and Google Ads partner, she keeps seeing the same questions come up — good questions that usually get bad answers, or answers that sound right but miss the real problem. Each episode is short (5–15 minutes), solo, and grounded in what she's seen work and break across real accounts. No theory. No fluff. Just the stuff that actually moves the needle — the broken handover between marketing and sales, the CRM nobody...
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How to Pick the Right Provider: The Questions That Reveal Everything
Most agency relationships go wrong before the first invoice. I share the questions I'd want a client to ask me, the ones that surface whether you're actually aligned, whether your provider will push back when they should, and whether you'll meet the person managing your account or just the one selling it. Inversion thinking, applied to hiring help.Why You Don't Need More Tools — You Need Clarity
Every business I audit has more tools than it needs and less clarity than it thinks. This episode is about why adding another platform won't fix what's actually broken: unclear processes. We cover tech stack bloat, the KISS principle, and why clarity has to come before tooling, not the other way around.When a CRM Migration Fails Before It Even Starts
Most failed CRM migrations were doomed before a single record moved. I cover the four signals I look for before a migration begins: ownership, internal champions, clarity, and timeline pressure. If you're planning a HubSpot or Salesforce migration this year, listen to this before you sign the SOW.How to Pick the Right CRM
Most CRM decisions get made off feature lists and pricing pages, and that's why most CRMs end up half-used. I walk through how to actually evaluate a CRM based on your business stage, your processes, and the teams who'll live inside it every day. The right CRM isn't the one with the most features, it's the one your team will actually use.