Earning authority

How Rockset pioneered a category: an interview with CMO & CPO Shruti Bhat

A conversation with Shruti Bhat, previously CMO and CPO at Rockset, about the moves that established the company as the leader of Real Time Analytics.


Why teamwork solves the B2B SEO malaise

What’s the secret of B2B SEO? Some say volume. Others say clusters. We say it’s collaboration. Find out why we’re right.


Performance branding: Why strategy and data must work together to drive pipeline

With B2B growth faltering, sugar rush leads & sales activation campaigns don’t deliver. See the importance of performant brand building under a central…


How to roll out a company roll-up

It was strange to read in Bloomberg and the Financial Times that 2023 wasn’t a good year for mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Because personally, we…


Continue: The most chicken-hearted word in marketing

Marketers often latch on to words that soften their language. Actually, humans in general do this: think of the last time you said ‘Maybe I’m wrong but…


How to signal authority

Trust is bound up with authority. Here are some ofthe weird ways humans signal authority to other humans.


Authority always wins

You don’t want to be known for service. You want to be known for authority.


Let’s steal from… Seventeenth Century Explorers

Something weird happened to communications in Early Modern England.


B2B documentaries: the next big thing

B2B Documentaries are hugely powerful but a woefully under-used tactic in B2B content marketing. Here’s why you should love them.


Let’s steal from the NBA: How a global sporting underdog became one of its leaders

Find out how the NBA used smart marketing tactics like a revamp of an influencer marketing strategy to become one of sport’s global leaders.


The hierarchy of benefits in B2B marketing

Your prospects don’t believe your big claims—and they don’t care about your small ones. It’s time to start building some bridges.


Why SaaS providers need to get braver about proprietary data

Most SaaS providers are missing a huge opportunity to create unique, authoritative, insightful marketing using their proprietary data – here’s why they…