For the better part of the last decade, B2B marketers have been told that serious account-based marketing requires an expensive intent-data engine telling you which accounts are supposedly in market.
And for a while, those platforms were pretty...
For the better part of the last decade, B2B marketers have been told that serious account-based marketing requires an expensive intent-data engine telling you which accounts are supposedly in market.
And for a while, those platforms were pretty...
Somewhere along the way, we decided the cure for ignored sales pitches was to prove we’d looked somebody up.
I’ve spent enough time on cold outreach to know what it feels like from both sides.
On one side, you’re the one making the calls. You’ve got your list, your script, and maybe you’ve even convinced yourself that if you just push through enough...
In a recent discussion with a client, their CEO asked a question that surfaces in many B2B companies once advertising budgets start to grow.
“Are these LinkedIn ads actually working?”
The pressure to generate pipeline hasn’t gone away, but the channels that used to make that job feel manageable are getting less predictable.
In conversations with CEOs about their go-to-market strategies, I increasingly hear the same concern: channels that once produced pipeline with some degree of predictability are no longer performing the way they used to.
The New York Times recently put an extraordinary number on the private equity exit problem: 33,575 companies were sitting unsold in PE portfolios as of June 30, 2026, more than double the...
Somewhere along the way, sophisticated B2B marketers decided that “lead generation” belonged in the same dusty closet as trade-show fishbowls and three-ring sales binders.
And having spent more than 30 years in marketing positions, I get it.
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