Most marketing leaders are  pretending Pretending they know how to use AI. Pretending they’re strategic. Pretending they can move fast enough. In 2026, pretending will cost you  pipeline, relevance, and valuation. The only marketing leaders who will matter are those who actually know how to wield AI like a weapon… and know when not to. And CEOs, if your marketing strategy didn’t get you where you needed to go in 2025, why repeat it in 2026? Truth be told, even down to the end

A critical battle is won or lost long before your sales team ever gets a call. According to Gartner, buyers are now  70%  of the way through their decision-making process before they formally engage with a sales representative. They are  conducting their own research, having internal conversations, and forming opinions about potential solutions  independently. To stay competitive, marketers need to create awareness and shape buyer preference from the earliest stages of the pu

CEOs, we need to talk about marketing's new metrics. While everyone’s chasing efficiency through AI automations, we've kinda lost sight of marketing's real mission. We've practically optimized ourselves to exhaustion, reducing a fundamental growth engine into a glorified cost center, a transactional service partner for sales focused only on the  next  click, the  next  conversion. We fell for the trap, and it's time to admit it. Why does this matter right now? Because we've e

You can't "AI-ify" a company overnight. When a powerful new technology like Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerges, the temptation for businesses is to jump in headfirst, aiming for a massive, immediate overhaul of their operations. This "big bang" approach, however, often leads to failure. Leaders across every industry feel an urgent need to deploy AI solutions rapidly, driven by the fear of being outmaneuvered by more agile competitors. This has created a frantic race to impl

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