Growth IRL Episode 5: Why Great Marketing Fails — The Tech Behind Growth with Bryce Drawe
Mike Schmutz and Bryce Drawe explore how websites, data, and follow-up systems connect marketing strategy to business growth.
Great Marketing. Broken Systems.
A campaign can look successful while the systems behind it let you down.
In Episode 5 of Growth IRL, Mike Schmutz sits down with DataXGrowth COO Bryce Drawe to talk about Growth Tech: how your website, customer data, marketing programs, and follow-up processes work together to support business growth.
Marketing makes a promise. Your website and systems have to deliver on it.
They discuss how slow landing pages, lost lead-source data, or weak follow-up can undermine the result of a campaign. The conversation covers measurement before optimization, a shared brief for marketing and development, and a practical cycle of diagnosing, building, measuring, and improving.
In This Conversation
- Why marketing and web development need a shared goal
- How slow pages, lost lead-source data, and weak follow-up can undermine a campaign
- Why measurement needs to come before optimization
- What marketing and development teams should agree on before a launch
- How to diagnose a constraint, prioritize the fix, build it, and measure what changed
For founders, marketers, and operators, this episode looks at the work that connects a good strategy to a functioning customer experience.
About Growth IRL
Growth IRL connects mindset, people, and practical growth marketing with Mike Schmutz, founder of DataXGrowth. Follow the show for practical conversations about growing yourself, your team, and your business.
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