Doug Kessler

Executive Creative Director

Doug is a displaced Yank who started his career at Ogilvy & Mather, New York.

Soap and fabric softener bored him rigid so he jumped ship to specialize in B2B.

Doug is an annoyingly ubiquitous speaker at marketing events and a prolific writer on all things marketing, content, tech, strategy and creativity.

His answer to why he’s spent so many years doing B2B (and loving it) is summarized in a quick slideshare called The Search for Meaning in B2B.

Other stuff he’s proud of include Crap, Insane Honesty, A Stakeholder Through the Heart and, mostly, this amazing place full of these smart, talented, committed and really nice people.

Doug is a copywriter at heart but with a secret jones for analytics.
And Lagavulin.

We’ve got 263 posts from Doug

WFH #8: Plan your emergence now

The brands that emerge first and shapely will be those who started planning now. Stop chasing the COVID story & plan something amazing.


WFH #6: Is it okay to just do normal marketing yet?

Is it okay yet to just to do normal marketing and not refer to the crisis? Glad you asked…


WFH #4: Three principles for marketing in insane times

Marketing in a crisis like covid-19 is a very hard thing to get right.

Here are some principles that feel important for a time like this.


B2B Marketing in COVID-19 times

Should B2B brands market during the crisis? If so how, when and why? If not… what do we do?


Why you should sessionize your content

What if you could sit on the shoulders of every prospect as they consumed your content. You kinda can.


Let’s steal from Google Cardboard

Why doing something small, humble, playful and quiet can be big, bold, ballsy, fun and HUGELY successful.


Buyer confusion is killing your marketing

Buyer confusion might be the number one killer of marketing effectiveness. Here’s why it happens and what you can do about it.


The galvanizing story part 4: the emotional core of your brand

The vast majority of B2B brands assume their prospects are rational ‘buy-bots’. They’re not. So you need an emotional core too.


Let’s steal from Apple

Apple was a laggard in content marketing. Then they leaned in… and crushed it.


Days when you just don’t wanna.

We all have days when we just don’t want to do… anything. What if they’re actually okay?


Something happened.

As content marketing becomes industrialized we risk losing something important. Here’s a plea to remember our roots.


Understand why people should NOT buy your products

Maybe we all should stop focusing on the reasons people should buy from us. And start focusing on why they shouldn’t.