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Strategy, AI in marketing, and the shifts that matter — written by marketers who've been in your shoes.
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Marketing Strategy
If you run a small B2B or professional services firm and you have quietly decided that LinkedIn is not for you, I understand. The platform rewards a certain kind of performance that most competent operators find embarrassing. The good news: the thing…
September 3, 2026
Marketing Strategy
The AI visibility industry has a measurement problem, and everyone is starting to notice. In the last few months, a wave of studies from Semrush, SparkToro, Conductor, and Unusual.ai have all landed on the same uncomfortable finding: the tools brands…
July 30, 2026
Marketing Strategy
The marketing funnel did not die. It changed shape into three stages SMBs are not instrumented for: Discovery happens passively in feeds and communities, Research happens in AI tools that cite Reddit and G2 more than Google, and Decision happens before any sales contact…
June 2, 2026
Marketing Strategy
Three of four marketing leaders say attribution is broken. AI search moved the buyer middle-of-journey into private LLM sessions where no instrument reaches.
May 13, 2026
Marketing Strategy
The AI revolution is the loudest disruption in a generation, but its effect on individual businesses arrives silently. 71% of companies are invisible to AI platforms, and the measurement tools that used to explain performance are going blind.
April 28, 2026
Marketing Strategy
Hiring an outreach agency is a $5,000–15,000/month commitment with a 3–6 month ramp. These ten questions separate vendors who adapt to your business from those running a generic playbook.
April 20, 2026
Marketing Strategy
Most cold outreach programs are built for one business model: high-volume, low-friction, single-decision-maker SaaS sales. Four archetypes predict how an outreach program should actually be built.
April 20, 2026
Marketing Strategy
Marketing strategies have a shelf life. Three structural shifts converged to break strategies that worked for years: AI disrupted discovery, privacy regulations ended cookie-based targeting, and buyer journeys fragmented.
April 20, 2026
AI in Marketing
Context engineering is the discipline that fixes generic AI output — and experienced marketers already know how to do it.
March 16, 2026
Content Strategy
AI content tools have reached 85% adoption among marketers, but 81% struggle to maintain brand voice consistency.
March 16, 2026
AI in Marketing
AI-powered solo marketers are replacing traditional marketing departments — and reshaping what a "marketing team" looks like.
March 16, 2026
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