Marketing Insights

The Truth About B2B Marketing: Lessons from a Recent Client Chat

I had an interesting conversation with some founders of a new project management consulting firm the other day. They’re smart people with solid experience, but like many new business owners, they were struggling with how to market their services effectively.

This chat reminded me of so many conversations I’ve had over the years with B2B service providers, and I wanted to share some key insights that might help others in the same boat.

From SEO to SDO: How Search Discovery is Evolving Beyond Traditional Optimization

Back in 2018, I stumbled onto something interesting while working with machine learning datasets. I was trying to get a pattern-recognition model to select specific content, not just based on keywords, but on the overall intent and context of the content. What I discovered was fascinating – content that was both well-structured and genuinely valuable consistently surfaced in the model, even when it didn’t follow traditional SEO formulas.

The Real AI Marketing Revolution Isn’t About Content

While marketers obsess over AI-generated content, they’re missing a far more transformative application: using machine learning to finally wrangle the chaos of modern marketing data. The true revolution isn’t in generating more content – it’s in making sense of the digital breadcrumbs customers leave across dozens of platforms.