Why Good Marketing Plans Fail
Companies spend thousands of dollars and countless hours developing and implementing marketing strategies. Yet despite all that effort, many marketing plans fail to produce the results executives expected. According to a study published in The Journal of Business Research, surveys ...
How to Get Content Cited by AI: Why Thought Leadership Matters
For years, marketers have focused on earning search engine rankings. But rankings no longer guarantee visibility. Today, the challenge is how to get brands to appear in AI searches. AI-powered search platforms such as Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, ...
Should Brands Keep Every Blog Post Forever?
Our team has published a blog every week for more than 15 years. The archive stretches back to September 2009, though our history with B2B marketing goes back much further. Looking through those early posts is a reminder of how ...
What Happens When No One Knows You’re the Expert? The Cost of Invisible Expertise
There is a common frustration that shows up in B2B marketing teams. The company has decades of experience. Teams have solved problems that competitors are still struggling to define. The work speaks for itself, at least internally. But when a ...
Summer Reading List: Seven Books Recommended by Top Business Leaders
What do some of the world’s most successful business leaders have in common besides extraordinary success? They are all voracious readers. While business leaders often share insights on strategy, innovation, and leadership, many also point to books as some of ...
How Smart Content Distribution Drives Revenue
Content creates potential, but distribution turns it into a pipeline. Yet, many B2B marketing teams invest in creating high-quality content but treat distribution as an afterthought. The result is a disconnect: the content exists, but the business impact does not ...
How Strong Brands Turn Content Into Meaningful Conversations
Creating content is easier than ever. Creating content that sparks meaningful conversations and drives business impact is far more challenging. Today’s audiences are exposed to a constant stream of posts, articles, and videos competing for limited attention. Much of it ...
What Today’s Marketing Landscape Says About the Future of Business
Every May 27, International Marketing Day recognizes the role marketing plays in helping businesses grow, compete, and communicate effectively. It also serves as a strategic reflection point, prompting organizations to evaluate how they utilize marketing within their businesses. This year, ...
What Happens After the Click? How Website UX Breakdowns Undermine B2B Marketing
With more marketing channels available to B2B marketers, many teams risk missing a critical blind spot: what happens after the first click on a website. While significant effort goes into driving traffic through campaigns, content, and paid media, the website ...
Busy Isn’t Better: The Case for Rest in Leadership
For many business leaders, taking a break has long been treated as a luxury instead of a necessity. In many organizations, exhaustion is still worn as a badge of honor, mistakenly equated with dedication and strength. Well-known leaders, including Steve ...
