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• Sales Enablement The Five Questions Every Revenue Leader Should Ask Before SKO Most Sales Kickoffs are planned backwards. starting with the venue and the agenda before anyone has answered the most important strategic questions. Here are the five you need to answer first. April 1, 2026 · 5 min read
• GTM Strategy Why Most B2B Companies Are Wasting Their Trade Show Investment (And What to Do Instead) The U.S. B2B trade show market hit $15.78 billion in 2024. Only 6% of Fortune 1000 exhibitors feel confident in their ability to convert event leads into revenue. Here's how to fix that. February 18, 2026 · 8 min read
• Messaging & Positioning ABM Didn't Fail. Marketing Discipline Did. 80% of ABM programs fail to deliver expected results. yet companies with true ABM alignment report 145% ROI. The uncomfortable truth: ABM didn't fail. The discipline underneath it did. January 14, 2026 · 9 min read
• GTM Strategy The Storytelling Trap: Why Most Business Content Fails and What GTM Leaders Should Do Instead Every few years, business rediscovers storytelling. But when something becomes fashionable, it's usually being misunderstood. The problem isn't content volume. It's narrative discipline. December 17, 2025 · 8 min read
• GTM Strategy Why the MQL is a Failed Metric (And What to Measure Instead) For nearly two decades, the MQL has been the central currency of B2B marketing. It's time to declare it a failed metric. and replace it with something that actually correlates to revenue. November 7, 2025 · 7 min read
• GTM Strategy Why Your Win Rate is a Vanity Metric (And What to Measure Instead) For decades, sales leaders have lived and died by win rate. In today's complex B2B motion, it can be one of the most misleading numbers on your dashboard. Here's a better metric. September 15, 2025 · 7 min read
• Customer Success Rethinking Customer Health: It's Not About Who Likes You A cheerful NPS score feels like a win. But liking you isn't the same as staying with you. Customer health requires three dimensions: relationship quality, product usage, and value realization. August 13, 2025 · 6 min read
• Marketing Ops A Stack of Good Intentions: Simplifying Marketing Ops Automation without understanding is like painting a dirty room. The real work of marketing isn't stacking tools; it's making them useful. A conversation with Dreya Armstrong. July 16, 2025 · 5 min read
• Opinion The Space Between the Questions One year into Some Goodness. The episodes that stayed weren't just well structured; they were deeply human. Here's what we learned from the space in between. June 4, 2025 · 4 min read
• Opinion When Strategy Becomes Personal At first, strategy is something leaders talk about like it's external. But if they lead long enough and care deeply enough, it changes. A conversation with Chris Strammiello. May 21, 2025 · 5 min read
• GTM Strategy What We Say Over and Over It wasn't a statistic that persuaded them. It wasn't a product demo. It was the sixth story. Clarity repeated is more persuasive than brilliance delivered once. May 7, 2025 · 4 min read