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Demand ·
Founder LinkedIn profile checklist
Your LinkedIn profile is your busiest sales page. A founder checklist for the headline, About, Featured, current role and activity, in twenty minutes.
AI search ·
llms.txt, AI crawlers and structured data
What helps ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini read your site, what does not, and what Google says: no special AI files needed. Readiness is not visibility.
AI search ·
Does ChatGPT recommend your business?
How to check whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini recommend your business, and how to read the answers honestly: sampling, variance and ranges.
Systems ·
HubSpot vs Salesforce for B2B
When HubSpot beats Salesforce for B2B teams under £20m, when Salesforce wins, and the migration mistakes that waste a year.
Paid ·
PPC vs SEO for B2B
How to choose between PPC and SEO in B2B: speed, cost per opportunity, compounding, and the sequence that usually wastes less.
Paid ·
Google Ads vs LinkedIn Ads for B2B
Google Ads vs LinkedIn Ads for B2B: intent versus targeting, cost per opportunity, and when to run one channel before the other.
Paid ·
What does a Google Ads consultant do?
What a Google Ads consultant actually does in B2B: account structure, conversion tracking, landing pages, and pipeline reporting, not bid tweaks.
Systems ·
HubSpot lifecycle stages
How to set HubSpot lifecycle stages so marketing and sales share one definition of a lead, an MQL, and an opportunity.
Systems ·
What is a HubSpot consultant?
What a HubSpot consultant does, how the role differs from a partner agency, and when a B2B team actually needs one.
Leadership ·
When to make your first senior marketing hire
When a B2B company should make its first senior marketing hire, what the role should be, and the fractional route that de-risks the decision.
Strategy ·
B2B marketing strategy: one page, four numbers
A B2B marketing strategy that fits on one page: the four numbers it must own, the choices it must make, and what to leave out on purpose.
Strategy ·
CAC payback period: the metric boards agree on
How to calculate CAC payback period properly, what good looks like by stage, and how to use it to set marketing budgets founders can defend.
Leadership ·
What is a fractional CMO?
What a fractional CMO actually does, when a B2B company needs one, and how the role differs from consultants, agencies, and a full-time hire.
Leadership ·
Fractional CMO cost UK: day rates and retainers
What a fractional CMO costs in the UK: typical day rates, monthly retainers, what drives the price, and how to compare it with a full-time hire.
Leadership ·
Fractional CMO vs full-time CMO vs agency
A decision framework for founders: when a fractional CMO beats a full-time hire or an agency retainer, with costs, risks, and switching points.
Leadership ·
Fractional CMO for startups and scale-ups
How £500k–£10m ARR startups use a fractional CMO: what the role owns, what it costs, when it beats a first marketing hire, and what to demand.
Systems ·
HubSpot lead scoring that sales actually trusts
How to build HubSpot lead scoring sales believes in: fit and intent signals, score decay, thresholds, and the handoff rules that protect pipeline.
Systems ·
Marketing attribution that survives board scrutiny
A working marketing attribution setup for B2B: models compared, CRM plumbing, honest limits, and reporting a board will actually trust.
Demand ·
Account-based marketing for founder-led B2B
Account-based marketing without enterprise theatre: list design, tiering, plays, and measurement for B2B teams under £20m revenue.
SaaS ·
B2B SaaS marketing: what changes above £1m ARR
B2B SaaS marketing after the first £1m ARR: why founder-led motion stalls, and the systems that replace it (lifecycle, attribution, CAC payback).
SaaS ·
Marketing for SaaS companies without a CMO
How SaaS companies run credible marketing before a CMO exists: what founders should own, delegate, and refuse to buy too early.
SaaS ·
SaaS marketing strategy: ARR-first planning
How to build a SaaS marketing strategy backwards from ARR: targets, motion fit, channel sequencing, and the reporting the board will trust.
SaaS ·
SaaS marketing: the founder's guide
SaaS marketing explained end to end: positioning, pipeline, pricing pages, activation, and the metrics that decide whether it is working.
Demand ·
B2B demand generation strategy for £1m–£20m firms
A working B2B demand generation strategy: targets, channel mix, lifecycle and attribution, sized for founder-led companies, not enterprises.
Demand ·
B2B lead generation: the system, not the hacks
How B2B lead generation works as a system: channels, qualification, scoring and handoff, measured in pipeline, not form fills.
Demand ·
Demand generation vs lead generation
The difference between demand generation and lead generation, why conflating them wastes budget, and how to sequence both in a B2B funnel.
Demand ·
What is demand generation? A founder's definition
What demand generation actually means for B2B, how it differs from lead capture, and the system a founder should expect it to run inside.
Strategy ·
B2B marketing trends that change the forecast
Which 2025–26 marketing shifts actually move pipeline, CAC, and measurement for B2B teams, and which are noise.
Systems ·
AI marketing tools for B2B pipeline teams
Where AI helps a B2B marketing system, and where it creates busywork that never shows up in the forecast.
Demand ·
Video for B2B: proof, product, and pipeline
Video that supports sales conversations and demand generation, not vanity views on channels that never reach the buyer.
Lifecycle ·
B2B email automation that nurtures pipeline
Lifecycle emails tied to CRM stages and sales handoff: welcome, nurture, and recovery sequences that move opportunities.
SEO ·
B2B SEO that creates pipeline
How B2B teams should treat SEO: commercial intent, measurement, and pages that feed pipeline rather than rankings for their own sake.
Demand ·
LinkedIn and social for B2B pipeline
A social strategy for B2B: LinkedIn, proof, and demand, not posting calendars that never touch revenue.
Lifecycle ·
B2B email subject lines that get opened
Five practical ways to improve B2B email open rates without tricks that burn the list or hide a weak offer.
Demand ·
B2B content that supports revenue architecture
Build content around ICP, offers, and pipeline stages, not a generic blog that never reaches the buying committee.
Paid ·
B2B paid ads measured in pipeline, not clicks
How to run Google Ads and LinkedIn so spend maps to qualified opportunities, not form-fills and vanity ROAS.
Demand ·
Regional B2B demand without local retail theatre
How B2B firms should treat geography, Google Business Profile, and local intent, without retail footfall theatre. Practical demand notes.
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