Insights

A few things worth thinking about.

Notes from the business end of B2B marketing. Strategy, GTM, HubSpot and the everyday challenge of making good ideas work.

Fractional CMO8 min

When a fractional CMO makes sense, and when it doesn’t

A practical way to decide whether your next marketing hire should be fractional, permanent or neither.

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Marketing operations6 min

Your HubSpot problem is probably an operating-model problem

Why better data starts with ownership, definitions and sales alignment, rather than another rebuild.

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Go-to-market7 min

Market expansion begins before the launch plan

The questions leadership teams should answer before choosing channels or building campaigns.

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Leadership5 min

The hidden cost of founder-led marketing

How to preserve founder insight while building a function that no longer depends on founder attention.

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Partner growth6 min

Partner marketing needs a commercial spine

Move beyond co-branded activity toward shared audiences, incentives and measurable pipeline.

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AI in marketing7 min

Use AI to improve the system, not multiply the noise

Where AI-enabled workflows create value, and where human judgment remains the constraint.

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Useful thinking. No content machine.

New articles on the commercial and operational questions behind better B2B marketing.

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