What could you do with 800 more hours?  😩

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HubSpot's Product Marketing lead program manager Jamie Hill shares how his team built a process map that saved 800 hours of labor while managing Spotlight, a twice-annual event launching 200+ product updates with 750+ marketing assets and 500+ stakeholders. The newsletter outlines how chronic pain points like late decisions, frequent changes, and coordination overhead drove the team to overhaul their marketing workflow framework. Hill's approach involves a structured process map and decision matrix to eliminate manual fire-fighting and scale to any business size.

Key Facts

βœ“Jamie Hill, HubSpot's lead PMM program manager, built a process map that eliminated 800 hours of manual coordination labor during Spotlight, a launch event with 200+ products and 500+ stakeholders.
βœ“The core fix involved replacing ad-hoc Slack threads and spreadsheets with a structured process map and a reversibility vs. impact Decision Matrix to handle late decisions and frequent changes.
βœ“Hill's key insight: fixing the framework requires upfront time investment, but not fixing it costs more β€” either the campaign breaks or the team burns out.

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Marketing process investment

Fixing your process framework is a time commitment, but you are wasting far more time if you don't do it β€” the cost of inaction is either a broken campaign or burnout.

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