Weekly newsletter #125
The best of what I've read this week, about operations, training and education, communication, and more
Hello!
The RevOps bootcamp finished last week, and I had to miss graduation, so I want to congratulate the class members who finished the course! 🎓 🎉 Many of you signed up for this newsletter, thank you! ❤️
For book news, I had a development clarity call today, so I can make progress on finishing editing and publishing. If you’re thinking of writing a book or are in the middle of wrestling with one, I highly recommend contacting Brannan. I’ll send out a book newsletter this week to organize and link to the published book research in the meantime.
My university work meetings in Los Angeles went well, and my worlds combined there with a session on Hubspot Academy’s micro-internships, where I met Cheyenne, who organized an online event I spoke at a few years ago! Here’s more info if your company would like to be a part of the micro-internship program or if you want to learn more.
Onto the curated resources!
Thanks to this week’s sponsor:
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Last week’s most popular link:
Lauren Aquilino writes why you need to document everything 📝
What I've been reading, watching, and listening to:
LinkedIn
Holly Owens shares a comprehensive list of Instructional Design resources
Sangram Vajre writes about how simplicity can equal speed
Jeff Ignacio shares the Pain Awareness Matrix: a framework that aligns your go-to-market motion to buyer pain awareness, which continues in the newsletter, and what to include in a well-crafted RevOps function charter 📝
Ann Handley writes about why you should be posting less on social media, according to Sprout Social’s brand-new 2025 Content Benchmarks Report
Matthew Volm writes that building a personal brand doesn’t mean becoming a LinkedIn influencer; it means becoming findable and getting noticed
Natalie Furness writes about what makes a great CRO
Audrey Harze writes about how a better tool won’t fix a broken system
Ernie Garcia Gomez, Denise Valentin, and Janis Zech share takeaways from the RevOpsAF conference in Berlin
Mike Rizzo writes about how if you don’t understand how your company makes money, you’re flying blind
Nancy Duarte writes about the MOST COSTLY mistake you can make with your high-stakes presentations
Darrell Alfonso shares a tactical dashboard you can use to keep a pulse on marketing/revenue operations
Bess Childs writes about being a full-stack marketer
Alison Marcoff writes about why non-remote instructional design jobs remain unfilled
Articles, Reports, Guides, Newsletters
Jill Felska writes about breaking down the 3H internal communications framework with Alejandra Ramirez
Ashley Rudolph asks: Can You Describe What You Do Without Jargon?
Al Dea writes about Cultivating Influence: How to Scale Your Impact Through Influencing Others
Regina Gerbeaux writes about jumping into a completely new, hard industry as an operator 📝 🚢
First Round Review asks: Is All Micromanagement Bad? Here's How the Best Startup Leaders Balance Details and Delegation
Darrell Alfonso shares 3 Different Versions of Marketing Ops Team Scope and Charters
People Storming writes about The Heart of Effective Facilitation: Balancing Structure and Humanity
Jess Almlie writes about whether saying no damages your reputation
Podcasts, Webinars, Videos
Arriel Balogun and Colette Moleni discuss Humanizing Revenue Operations: Why Empathy and Efficiency Must Coexist in a webinar for The RevOps Career Coach – 58 minutes
Layla Pomper and Kara List discuss delegation and Growing a Team While You’re Drowning in Work on The Culture Keeper’s podcast -38 min 📝
Kate Mueller discusses the Write the Docs conference on The Not-Boring Tech Writer – 26 min 📝
Emily DiLeo, Lloyd Yoo, and Jake Burghardt discuss Why Repositories Fail - And How to Get it Right in a Stravito webinar - 61 minutes 📝
Sydney Finkelstein and Sarah Green Carmichael discuss: Don’t Just Coach Your Employees—Teach Them on the HBR on Leadership podcast - 22 min
Roberto Blake and Ali Schwanke discuss building a 600K+ YouTube Empire (Without Burning Out) on Marketing Deconstructed - 21 min
Al Dea, Britt Andreatta, and Justin Reinert discuss Finding Stability When Everything Around You Is Changing on the Brain Aware Training podcast– 25 minutes
Kristine Kukich and Shannon Howard discuss Content Legos: Building a Unified Customer Experience on the Mixology show – 21 mins 📝
Emily Kramer, Jenny Thai, and Devon Watts discuss what content to create & where to publish in the post-blog era on the Dear Marketers Podcast - 63 minutes
Featured Events or Classes:
June 17: CEOs explore the untold story behind change failure: the human experience from WorkTango
June 19: Building Your Personal Board of Advisors from Women of Pavilion
June 20: Test This, Not That: Email, Content & Increased Conversions from Masters in Marketing
June 24: Simplify, Align, Launch: Practical Go-to-Market Strategy Development $ from AMA
On-demand: Certified Revenue Enablement Professional Program $ from Revenue Enablement Society
Featured Book:
Toxic Grit: How to Have It All and (Actually) Love What You Have by Amanda Goetz (affiliate link to bookshop.org)
Featured Remote Jobs:
Senior Lifecycle & Retention Strategist at Common Thread Collective
Marketing Automation Manager and Growth Marketing Director at Centivo
A Few Ways I Can Help You
On-demand courses:
Live courses:
Enroll in the process documentation course and workshops here for June/July and October/November sessions
The next free RevOps BootCamp session starts in October
Participate in the research for the next live course about employee onboarding
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📝 Documentation | 🚢 Employee onboarding | $ Paid course/event/resource