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October 21, 2026 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Marketing Strategy

Executives don’t fund marketing language. They fund plans tied to the outcomes they already care about.
September 23, 2026 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Marketing Strategy

TL;DR Google changed how its ad platform works in 2024–2025, and your campaigns are paying for it. The harder truth: you still have control, you’ve just been handing it to the AI. What do I tell my CEO about our Google Ads budget? To maintain previous performance levels, we need to either increase the budget […]
May 20, 2025 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Email Marketing
As a marketing leader, you pour significant resources into crafting email campaigns. But have you stopped to consider what actually happens when those carefully designed messages land in your audience’s inbox? The truth is, your subscribers’ inboxes are increasingly sophisticated filtering systems that make fewer and fewer emails visible. Categorized tabs automatically sort promotional emails […]
September 18, 2024 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Marketing Strategy

Let’s face it: ‘know your audience’ is Marketing 101. But it’s a mantra repeated so often, it may have lost its meaning. Today’s AI-powered world demands we sharpen our focus and zoom in on the psyche of the real humans we are talking to. We need to forge insights as profound and nuanced as our […]
May 30, 2024 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Marketing Strategy
AI is hitting fast and furious and it’s hard to keep up with all the buzz, let alone the business challenges it’s presenting.
March 20, 2024 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Marketing Strategy

Major ISPs, ESPs, and email browsers are actively phasing out third-party data. As marketers, this means we’ve got a choice: shift our digital marketing approach towards collecting zero-party and first-party data — or lose our audience.
February 22, 2024 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Email Marketing

Navigating email sender requirements are more demanding. Quick: Name the 4 email sender requirements Yahoo & Google enforced starting Feb 1 (⤵)
December 12, 2023 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Marketing Strategy

Technology powers digital marketing, and marketing leaders get it (sort of). They dedicate huge portions of their annual budgets and cross-functional resources to researching and vetting new mar-tech platforms. However, many tend to miss one key point.
October 19, 2023 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Marketing Strategy

Shift your communication strategy to a conversation strategy that engages your audience. Discover practical tips for successful digital marketing and meaningful customer interactions.
March 29, 2023 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Marketing Strategy

Take stock of what your teams have been doing, imagining “what could be” solutions, and perhaps using the lessons we’ve learned in the past to inspire them to work smarter, not harder.
March 8, 2023 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Social Media Marketing

“Moneyball” got it right. In baseball and B2B marketing, performance is predicted by getting on base—not taking big swings. Turns out, making incremental improvements and small tweaks are more likely to yield significant results.
February 21, 2023 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Marketing Strategy

Newsflash: Relying on third-party data to gain insights about a target audience is an exercise in futility. Instead of tracking behavior, the better B2B marketing strategy for driving demand and revenue is by going straight to the source. Find out how.
February 7, 2023 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Flow State B2B Marketing

Getting wrapped up in the go, go, go mentality of marketing is a slippery slope. With budgets under fire, B2B marketers need to know how to keep moving projects forward in a meaningful way.
November 18, 2022 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Flow State B2B Marketing

Nearly half of B2B companies outsource all or part of their marketing functions. Ask these three questions to maximize the agility, specialization, and project leadership your team needs.
August 31, 2022 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Social Media Marketing

Attention B2B Marketers, Driving traffic to the company’s website is getting you nowhere. Instead, unique content and organic engagement are the best ways to generate trust and demand. Find out how »
March 30, 2022 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Marketing Strategy

Now more than ever, employees are pondering the purpose of work. People are now leaving their jobs at the highest rate in two decades, spurring a “Great Resignation” — learn what B2B marketers can do to help HR solve their recruitment challenges.
November 2, 2021 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Breakthrough Content

An industry event is a perfect setting to plan and create short testimonial videos. You’ve got a large group of your customers all in one place, as well as experts in your field who can talk intelligently about the benefits of working with or buying from your company. But aside from planning your key company […]
September 1, 2021 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Marketing Strategy

Digital marketing tactics are crucial to sustainable success, but picking the right focus for any B2B company can be tricky.
August 17, 2021 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Website Management

When your company’s website is working well, it’s a conversion machine turning interested visitors into free-spending and viable prospects. The birds are singing and you look like a genius. But how often does this really happen?
July 29, 2021 • written by Pauline Kalil • about Social Media Marketing

If B2B marketers continue to perceive influencer marketing as a consumer-only effort, they will miss the opportunity to realize untapped funnel growth and conversions.
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