Any trainings that you all would recommend requesting from your agency?

Has anyone used Captify? Did you find it valuable and could you give me estimates on their pricing! Thank you!

Reviews on Amber in SF? Will it be awkward to go there alone?

What is a good OTE for a customer success manager located in SLC exiting Salesforce with three years of experience in strategic customer success. I am seeing initial offers ranging from $100k OTE to $160k. Salesforce Adobe Microsoft Qualtrics Celonis Inc

What is your general opinion of Teachers' Unions which protect teachers from being removed based on their poor pedagogy over many years?

I’m a noob seeking advice on what to do with my prior employer 401k. Insights?

Any thoughts on the IP litigation outlook in Atlanta and/or Charlotte? Looking to move but I’m not sure of the workload there. I predominately focus on patent infringement at my current firm.

What are some tips you all have to build confidence in dogs? I adopted my dog at around 1.5 yo, and the shelter didn’t have much info on his background, but he was so scared when he first came into the shelter they had to muzzle him. I’ve had him now for ~1.5 years and we’ve made so much progress, but still a lot to work on. He barks at children and occasionally men (he’s gotten a lot better on this), and will approach bigger dogs to greet but will snap at them all of a sudden.

Does anyone have any books recommendations on personal or career development? Anything that helped shaped you for a leadership position down the line? Thanks!

Best resources (books, online courses) to learn theoretical part of sales process?

Anyone who worked at Saiontz and Kirk have any insights or tips if they worked there as an associate?

Is it possible to have abdominal muscle pain from doing push-ups? (When push ups have never been your thing)?

Is it normal to have the “Sunday scaries”? What do you do to avoid them?

How to invest in Direct Growth Funds? I've created a CAN ID using MF Utilities. It asks me to login and proceed but I don't have my login ID generated. Should I wait for more time as my CAN ID was approved only yesterday?

Given the current downturn in US markets and specially Cypto, what's your strategy?

Does anyone have any suggestions on small side gigs or other ways to make some quick cash for the holidays?

Ladies! I recently moved to SF and I’m looking for a good haircut (ideally <$125). Any recs?

Friends are visiting and apparently tickets for Alcatraz in the official website are gone. Any idea if there is other reliable place/way to get the tickets?? Thanks

I’m an analyst at a small(ish) REPE firm. We’re looking to unroll a pretty comprehensive Multifamily strategy and I’m tasked with hammering it out internally. Part of this is choosing a RE consulting firm to engage. We’re looking for people to gather a lot of data on various markets and create various economic reports. Also other data as needed to make a slide deck. Anybody have recommendations/personal experience at a consulting firm with Multifamily practice?

I am currently serving notice period and having four years of experience in Informatica BDM, Informatica PC,Hive, Teradata,Unix scripting,SQL,TWS. I am having offer from zs associates and have cleared technical round of compucom. Please suggest good companies for a data analyst/engineer job. Thanks

What is the role of the strategist during an internal creative meeting?

How often do you have downtime at work? My projects come in hot and then quiet, sometimes for weeks. I keep myself occupied but was wondering if that’s standard for this industry.

Can you be a brand strategist and hate competitive reviews? Today’s philosophical pondering

In your current agency, who owns brand strategy implementation and brand experience across channels (storytelling [communication goals & brand narrative], brand content recommendations, tactic ideation and approach, user experience, etc.)?

How do you represent pure strategy asks in your book? I’ve only ever shown the creative and write ups for the strategy that informed it. Approaches?

My manager and I usually check in everyday via slack to manage our ongoing projects. But he’s put a weekly 1:1 on the calendar...not sure what I can bring to that meeting or talk about if he already has so much visibility into my work stream. Advice pls! I’m also 3 months into the job

I feel I am not talking enough or not asking enough questions during meetings and internal meeting and have a feeling it’s going to come up. Sometimes I honestly just have nothing to say but agree. How can I compact this? 

In every interview when they ask “why strategy” I never feel like my answer is sufficient enough. Even if it’s a straight fwd, honest answer... is there something they’re looking for?

Trying to convince a brand to do some good in the world. What are some segments of the population that have been disproportionately affected by COVID? The more specific the better

Serious question, please answer objectively. Are your sales teams all a nightmare to work with? I think we all understand that sales teams can be pushy (it’s their job to be that way with clients), but I get consistent feedback from my operations teams that sales is aggressive and disrespectful.

Is it just my company or is it like this everywhere?

Anyone have a go to framework they use to write positioning “strategies?” Or just a typical strategy? Could use inspiration— I feel I always default to the same setup. It’s not broken, but I’m bored!

Senior strategists, how much are you making? Or, other folks, what’s the salary band for senior strats at your agency?

Favorite podcasts/blogs/media to get you smart and help you think outside the box?

I am working on becoming a VP which entails having VP level conversations with clients.

And for that, I need to understand what that looks like, so I'm thinking copy the best!

So what are some amazing blogs and newsletters I can read to get in the heads of the people driving their brands forward?

I want to understand that c suite mindset around marketing so I can speak to what my thoughts are at their level, and in a way that resonates.

Anyone interested in purchasing a SXSW Film badge at the early bird special cost of $895?

What are some of the best board games you strategists love? I’m trying to get a strategist friend a Christmas gift

Looking for recommendations to generally upskill my Strategy work (or learn from scratch) — be it courses, classes, books, podcasts, people to follow.

For context, I’m a freelance Social Media Manager/Strategist and I came into Ad world via Startups. Throwing myself into learning on the job with more Strategy gigs - but I still don’t feel like I quite know the lingo or best practices or theories.

Most brutal positioning stories?

Nearing the finish line for one of the larger accounts at our agency and am beyond emotionally exhausted.

I hate when you have to communicate three separate things in one campaign strategy.

What tools are you using to get audience insights? I.e. the ask suzy, pollfish types. Any other ones?