July 9

The Automation Wake-Up Call: What Businesses Are Getting Wrong in 2025

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“We tried automation, but it didn’t work.”

We hear this all the time—and it’s usually because of these 3 classic mistakes:

  1. Using tech without a strategy
  2. Over-automating without human oversight
  3. No review or optimisation after setup

We saw this with a wine club client who had a 6-email welcome series… that hadn’t been updated since 2021. Customers were being sent expired offers 😬

We rebuilt their onboarding automation to:

  • Dynamically insert the right offer based on current stock
  • Send a personal ‘cellar door’ invite based on location
  • Hand off VIPs to the owner for personal follow-up

🔁 Automate—but with purpose, precision, and personality. We’ll show you how.