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How to Research a Lead After a Trigger AND Turn It Into an Email Worth Reading

Most outbound emails are terrible.

In theory, that should make it easy to stand out. I mean, if everyone else is sending lazy AI personalization, generic compliments, and emails that somehow manage to say “I researched you” without demonstrating...

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The Case for Cutting Back on Expensive Intent-Data Platforms

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...

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Your Prospect Does Not Care How Personalized Your Sales Pitch Is

Somewhere along the way, we decided the cure for ignored sales pitches was to prove we’d looked somebody up.

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Your ICP Tells You Who. Alpha Signals Can Tell You When.

Most B2B marketers know how to identify the companies they want to reach.

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Are LinkedIn Ads Working? The 2026 Data Says We’re Asking the Wrong Question

How much are you spending on LinkedIn ads that never turn into sales conversations?

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Your Ads May Not Be the Problem. Your GTM Strategy Might Be.

The pressure to generate pipeline hasn’t gone away, but the channels that used to make that job feel manageable are getting less predictable.

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The Outbound Playbook Is Broken. Most CEOs Just Haven't Admitted It

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.

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Your Best Customers Hold Clues to Your Future Sales. Can AI Find Them?

We’ve never known more about what prospective customers are doing.

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Whatever Happened to Good Old-Fashioned Lead Generation?

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.

Back in...

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Why Your Intent Data May Be Telling You About the Opportunity Too Late

Third-party intent data became popular for a good reason.

Buyers were doing more of their research online and through social networks before talking to sales, and companies wanted to identify intent early enough to get into the buying process before...

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