Sock Talk: A Computan Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Marketers, agency owners, developers and other titans share their greatest mistakes with Gill ‘The Sock’ Bates. You’ll hear experts spilling their beans to a sock puppet on some of the biggest mistakes they have made in their career, what they learned from it and what you can learn from it.
Uzair has been working as a HubSpot developer for years. In this episode he recounts a time early in his career when he was building a custom search feature in HubSpot, published all pages and went looking for a time machine.
Hassan is an HR Manager at Computan who helps the team find amazing developers. He’s also very technical. But he wasn’t always this way. Hassan recounts a time where he downloading illegal software led to a $50,000 hostage situation and him losing all his childhood pictures.
Adeel is an eCommerce developer at Computan who knows Shopify, BigCommerce and other shopping carts. But one time earlier in his career he got taught a $4000/month lesson in BigCommerce. Hear all about it his humbling experience.
Nadia is Computan’s Director of Human Resources. She is responsible for hiring developers and outlines how Computan hires programmers. She also explains the role culture plays in hiring. Humans or socks.
Kassem is a Web Development Project Manager. He worked on a client for a marketing agency who asked him to get his team started on the work immediately to meet a timeline. He started to work without estimating everything and, at the client’s request, even skipped QCing the work. Naturally, this didn’t lead to rainbows and butterflies. Listen to find out what it led to and what you can learn about estimating dev projects.
Anas is a HubSpot integration developer. He finished doing a HubSpot integration between Active.com. The client wanted him to run a historical sync so that data on existing records between Active would sync to HubSpot. But things went a little sideways leading to one of the biggest blunders of Anas’ career. Learn about how, why and what you can learn from Anas’ big mistake.
Ashok is a DevOps Engineer with Computan. He’s an expert at AWS and website security. Listen to Ashok jam about how he accidentally destroyed a WHM/cPanel server with an overweight script that deleted every account.
Lisa is one of Computan’s fun-loving Customer Success Managers. She knows how to work with our developers and team members to keep customers happy and satisfied. But there was a time at a previous company where she was in charge of purchasing. And added a few zeroes on an order. Gulp.
Awais is a marketing guru. A seasoned HubSpot technologist and master of email marketing campaigns. But when he was tasked with generating leads for a large software company he screwed up big time. He sent cold-email outreach messages to thousands of prospects on the company’s primary domain name which got their entire company put on a blacklist. What happened to Awais afterward? How do you recover when that happens?
Ahmad Ali is an All-Star Creative Director. But every artist has a craft piece or two. Ahmad is no different. Ahmad recollects that one time when he needed to design something for a new client on a deadline. So he stayed late, worked on it…and used images from the client’s competitor. Listen for all the details.
Bratislav is a super-duper legend of HubSpot Project Management. He talks about a time that he worked with a high-end HubSpot Partner on customizing a HubSpot theme. The problem was the theme didn’t have the things their client needed. Bratislav talks about what to look for in a HubSpot theme and gives Gill a sneak preview of some Computan HubSpot themes!
Syed is a popular Customer Success Manager. He’s travelled and worked in many countries. Syed is a fan of WordPress and was doing a huge WordPress project for a big eCommerce shop in the Middle East. He signed the contract with the parent company and didn’t talk with the end users until the site was done. He built a site the IT department wanted, but the marketers didn’t. It led to a huge shakedown and some 4 letter words being thrown.
Muhammad Nasir is a really famous developer and the lead engineer at Computan. He has built enterprise applications and SaaS products from scratch. He’s a development super hero. But even super heroes have mistakes. Nasir recollects a time a HubSpot integration went wrong due to poor scoping.
Simranjeet is a Content Marketing Manager. More like Content Marketing Hall of Famer! He’s an awesome writer. But you know what? There was this one time when he was doing social media work for a marketing influencer and he attributed a quote to the wrong person and it created a huge problem.
Francisco is a marketing and customer success guru. Once upon a time though he messed up real bad on a paid-search campaign for a big streaming platform based in Argentina. It’s a long story but it involves someone paying for someone elses ads, sales not going like expected and a lot of pain for Francisco.