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traction, failures, analytics, heat maps, and doing

June 12, 2025

Five things to make your business sharper than a tack dressed up as smartStacks.

📎 Nothing shared is sponsored unless specifically noted. This newsletter is to bring ideas, innovations, systems, processes, and applications that streamline business and increase effectiveness and efficiency, because we are passionate business people.

📌 #1

Traction

OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD! Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you? All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations—personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth. Decisions never seem to get made, or, once made, fail to be properly implemented. But there is a solution. It's not complicated or theoretical.The Entrepreneurial Operating System® is a practical method for achieving the business success you have always envisioned. More than 250,000 companies have discovered what EOS can do. In Traction, you'll learn the secrets of strengthening the six key components of your business. You'll discover simple yet powerful ways to run your company that will give you and your leadership team more focus, more growth, and more enjoyment. Successful companies are applying Traction every day to run profitable, frustration-free businesses—and you can too. For an illustrative, real-world lesson on how to apply Traction to your business, check out its companion book, Get A Grip.

www.google.ca/books/edition/Traction/1sl__J9p70AC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

A way of managing day-to-day business issues and big ideas in a structured and methodical way. It all starts with the book “Traction” by Gino Wickman. The book was referred to me recently and implemented Level 10 meetings system, all of which is part of the EOS ecosystem.

I then heard about it again, on the My First Million Podcast, where Sam Parr hired an EOS implementor and the system “changed the trajectory” of Morning Brew when Founders, Alex and Austin implemented it.

I cannot help but feel called towards this...

📌 #2

Mantras to live by in business:

  1. Make the best decisions with the information you have now, and adjust as you go.

  2. Not making a decision, is a decision. Don’t be passive.

  3. The customer decides.

📌 #3

Automated Client Reporting for Marketing Agencies | AgencyAnalytics

AgencyAnalytics helps marketing agencies scale with automated client reporting. Create custom dashboards and reports for SEO, PPC, social media, and more. 14-Day Free Trial

agencyanalytics.com

I’ve become obsessed with Data. How to get it, clean it, use it. Visualize it. And this has lead me down a path of trying to consolidate all the metics into a single dashboard… This is the most cost effective one I have come across.

Data is a gold mine. 👀 Some of the software for this starts at hundreds of dollars per month.

📌 #4

No one knows anything.

Try. Do. Sell. Test. Make. Build. More learning happens in 1 hour of action, than 3 months of “learning” or “research”.

Beat your competitor by doing.

📌 #5

Hotjar: Website Heatmaps & Behavior Analytics Tools

The next best thing to sitting beside someone browsing your site. See where they click, ask what they think, and learn why they drop off. Get started for free.

www.hotjar.com

Sticking with data… I love the visual stuff. I first saw a version of this with Zoho, but using heat maps on your website is such an interesting way to see how users are navigating, where they drop off and where they concentrate their time.

Facinating 🔥

Stacking is to create simple and repeatable routines using ideas, tools, and systems that build momentum.

That’s all for this week!