Marketing Mishap: Using My Name As My Password Wasn't Great

Moving fast in business means making quick decisions that can sometimes lead to significant mistakes, as Jack Sutcliffe, CEO of Powersheds, found out when their website was hacked due to an overly simplistic password.• Rapid decision-making is part of their business approach, which inevitably leads to some wrong choices• Poor decisions have included selecting the wrong systems and hiring staff who weren't a good fit• A major security oversight involved using "jack" as the CMS password• The website hack resulted in thousands of Japanese pages appearing in Google search results• Even after fixing the security issue, the compromised pages remained in search results for monthsSend us Fan MailStruggling to prove marketing's worth to your board? Grab our free one-page Board-Proof Scorecard: 👉 Download the scorecard 👈Got a marketing problem you would rather not admit to? Reply to this and we will answer it anonymously on the show.Subscribe to our newsletter The mistakes we see marketers make, every fortnight. 👉 [Subscribe here] 👈Follow Chris:X, TikTok, LinkedInFollow Will:LinkedInFollow The Show:TikTok, YouTube