BUSY BUREAU
Marketing & Website Development
Philippines — working with the UK, AU & US
05 — Insights

Teardowns, Playbooks & Field Notes.

What we learned building the work, written up properly — including the decisions we got wrong and had to undo.

Playbook

Map the process before you automate it

Half the steps in a typical workflow exist because someone left in 2019. Deleting beats automating, every time.

2 Sep 2026 ·
Field notes

The enquiry nobody answered on Saturday

Speed to first contact decides more deals than targeting, creative and budget put together. Here is the arithmetic.

28 Aug 2026 ·
Teardown

Why your landing page converts at 0.4%

Six pages, pulled apart section by section. The same four mistakes in all of them, and what replacing them did.

21 Aug 2026 ·
Playbook

Buy, build, or wire together: choosing honestly

A decision framework for the moment your off-the-shelf tool stops fitting — including when we tell people not to hire us.

14 Aug 2026 ·
Field notes

The tracking setup most agencies skip

Server-side events, consent handling and a warehouse you own. It is a fortnight of work and it changes every decision after it.

7 Aug 2026 ·
Teardown

A 6.4-second store, rebuilt in public

Every decision from the storefront rebuild, including the two we got wrong and had to undo in week three.

19 Jun 2026 ·

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