2025 is upon us, and a new year brings new trends and new challenges. If you‘re a brand looking to leverage social media video this year, you may not know what to expect but don’t worry. I, your resident content...
Category: Marketing blog
How Heike Young Uses Humor to Transform B2B Marketing
It's rare that a B2B marketer is funny on LinkedIn. And not “posted a meme about ChatGPT taking over my job” funny. I mean genuinely, “I would watch this content in my free time” kind of humor. And she's got...
B2B Reads: AI Tools, CEOs Guide to B2B Marketing, Marketing & Sales Alignment, B2B Sales
Every Saturday morning we share some of our favorite B2B sales and marketing posts from around the web last week (so it’s fresh!). We’ll miss a ton of great stuff, so if you found something you think is worth sharing...
Why CX Matters More Than Any Other Marketing KPI Right Now
I’m fortunate to work on exciting marketing campaigns for fantastic Nickelodeon and Paramount+ titles. But I never forget that customer experience and marketing go hand-in-hand — everything I plan and execute is to fulfill customer wants and needs. After all,...
The 7 Types of Social Media and Pros & Cons of Each (Research)
As a former journalist, I spent years digging through social media feeds to write juicy stories. Now, as HubSpot’s go-to for all things social, I stay ahead of every single trend. Literally, nothing flies under my radar. On top of...
The Death of Solution Selling (and What Replaces It)
Why Prescriptive Sales Wins: From Solution Selling to Strategic Outcomes Clients don’t buy solutions—they buy results. A sales approach that positions your product or service as “the solution” assumes the client understands their problem. It also assumes that you fully...
What Marketers Need to Know [+ Examples]
Imagine a weighted balance scale: on one side is brand visibility; the other, lead generation. Your job as a content marketer is to use gated and ungated content to successfully balance both goals. With gated content, users arrive at your...
How Google Gemini, Stream Realtime & Claude are Rewriting Marketing
I’ve spent decades analyzing shifts in marketing, but the rise of AI agents is the most disruptive one yet. These systems are quickly taking over the user journey — but unlike humans, they evaluate structured data, analyze backend specifications, and...
30+ Small Business Marketing Ideas to Jumpstart Your Strategy
Throughout my marketing career, I’ve worked with a handful of small businesses and startups — each one scrappy, fast-moving, and trying to do more with less. I’ve seen firsthand how hard it can be to get the word out when...
Discovery Is Not What You Think It Is
Most salespeople treat discovery like an interrogation. The only thing missing is the light over the contact’s head and the duct tape holding them to their chair. In the modern sales conversation, discovery is not gathering data—it’s about creating value...


