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The most important skill for a developer is the ability to apply what was learned.

A most valuable skill for a developer. The ability to learn, and adaptibility to speed up the process.

Failures are the steps to success

It's Day One of MAD//FEST 2024, and not even the rain could keep our team away from learning about the latest and greatest that marketing has to offer ☔ Here's a few of our top takeaways: 👥 Vibhor Kapoor from NextRoll reminds us of the importance of creating customer personas and utilising them to help your brand thrive in a post-third-party cookie world. 📊 We took a deep dive into the good, bad, and ugly side of the ethics of AI for consumer brands, featuring the wise words of 💡James Poulter (from our Next 15 sister agency House 337) on feeding AI better datasets to reduce biases and improve outcomes. 📊 It turns out there's more to the future of marketing than AI, as zero-party data was another hot topic of the day, courtesy of Lawrence Horne of Ogury, who looked at the vital role it should play in contemporary marketing strategies.

some wise words by Vivek Mittal 📃🖊️

When the stakes are high, the ability to remain composed, make quick decisions, and perform at one's best under pressure is an invaluable talent. such as Surya shown this talent, which was essential and contributed to the India team's victory. #successstoryteamindiat20

Ed Sheeran singing at age 14… HORRIBLE 🤐🤣🤯 Listen to it, but turn down the volume! 🤣🤣🤣 I love how open he is about it. He could have taken the video down from YouTube, but he didn’t. His secret to success? F A I L I N G "You learn nothing from success." That quote really hits home. I failed multiple times this week: ⛔️ I didn’t close a sales call I could have handled better. ⛔️ I didn’t perform well at an event we held this week. In fact, starting the Product Masterclass has been a constant cycle of failure and improvement. 👀⏪ Sebastian and I review each quarter to see what worked and what didn’t. We've had a lot of failures. Here’s one example: We tried to make Facebook Ads work for us. 😕 Did not work. We tried again with an agency. 😣 Did not work. Spent another 50,000€. 😩 Still didn’t work. If you failed this week, keep going. 🏃 If someone around you failed recently, forward this post. It will cheer them up ⬆️🥳 Happy failing, happy weekend 🙂 #Failure #Success #KeepGoing #Resilience #EdSheeran #Inspiration #ProductMasterclass

Believe in the Process As someone who's been in sales, I've learned that cold reach outs can be intimidating, but they're also a game-changer. It's easy to get discouraged by rejection or silence, but I want to remind you and my self that every "no" brings you closer to a "yes". Don't give up! Every connection you make has the potential to lead to a new opportunity. This event has one of such connections for me MUBI Share with me your experiences with cold reach outs! What's worked for you? #ColdReachOuts #Sales #BelieveInTheProcess #itworks

Let's definitely talk about you... but before that just a "little" about us. So many of these from Rob I love but this one below grabbed me most of all. How many pitch decks "start out" being written all about the client and their audience and their issue of the day. How many meetings with a new client in the room "start out" as just a meeting to deliver what you were supposed to deliver. How many case interviews with a new client "start out" with a list of questions to get to know THEM better? But it always ends up being all about us. We convince ourselves it's the right move: "They asked us to talk about ourselves in the RFI" "This client doesn't know us yet" "We should really have our faces and titles up on the board so they can see who we are when we're presenting who we are in the room." "Hey clients like awards as much as anyone so let's have just a quick page on that." "I know we said we'd start with their business problem but we just need to do a quick agency intro first about all the clients we work with. It'll be short." I once was in a new business pitch where the key client had 45 minutes to be in the room. SO WE HAD TO GET TO THE GOOD STUFF BEFORE THEY LEFT for another meeting. Our Agency introductions went on for 39 minutes! Before the clients introduced themselves! Making it about THEM is making it about US. And it is still special. Every single time. #advertising #creativity #marketing

Follow the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle to enhance code efficiency and maintainability. Reduce redundancy by encapsulating reusable logic in methods, classes, and modules. #SoftwareDevelopment #DRYPrinciple #CodeEfficiency #MaintainableCode #CleanCode #ProgrammingBestPractices #SoftwareEngineering #CodeQuality #TechTips #DeveloperLife