Tag: B2B Marketing
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AI Marketing is a Dumpster Fire (And Your Company is Probably Next)
Let me paint you a picture of AI marketing in 2025: billions of dollars burned, countless hours wasted, and an industry-wide crisis of confidence that’s making everyone pretend everything is fine. Google lost $100 billion in market value in a few hours because of an AI mishap. McDonald’s exposed 64 million job applicants’ personal information…
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B2B Personalization is Suffering (Here’s What Actually Works at Scale)
Let me guess: your “personalized” B2B marketing means using merge tags to insert first names and company names into email templates. “Hi {{FirstName}} at {{Company}}, are you struggling with {{Industry}} challenges?” This isn’t personalization. This is mail merge with delusions of grandeur. Real B2B personalization at scale is hard, expensive, and most companies are doing…
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Understanding the B2B Marketing ROI Deception
That beautiful dashboard showing your marketing ROI? Those perfectly optimized attribution reports? The quarterly presentations where you confidently declare marketing’s contribution to revenue? Most of it is probably not helpful or particularly useful. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: 90% of B2B marketers measure ROI, but most are measuring the wrong things in the wrong ways for…
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Why Most B2B Content Strategies Fail
Let’s talk about the elephant in every marketing meeting: your content strategy isn’t working, and deep down, you know it. How do I know? Because 58% of B2B marketers rate their content strategy as merely “moderately effective”. But here’s what bothers me about this statistic: it’s not like content marketing is rocket science. The principles…
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Stop Chasing AI Tools and Start Building AI Strategy (Why Most “AI Marketing” is Just Expensive Automation)
Every B2B marketer I know is obsessed with AI tools. They’re signing up for ChatGPT Pro, buying Jasper subscriptions, and attending webinars about “AI-powered everything.” Meanwhile, they’re completely missing the point. AI isn’t about the tools. It’s about the strategy. And most companies have no strategy at all. The AI Tool Addiction Problem Here’s what…
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The AI Marketing Maturity Crisis: Why Most “AI-First” Companies Are Still Operating Like It’s 2020
When AI Adoption Meets Implementation Reality Over 1,500 marketers worldwide participated in recent studies about AI marketing implementation, revealing a troubling pattern: while 75% of marketers use AI in their day-to-day roles, most are implementing it at a level that barely scratches its potential. I’ve discovered that the gap between AI adoption and AI maturity…
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The Great Marketing Data Illusion: Why More Analytics is Making Teams Less Intelligent
When Information Becomes Paralysis Marketing teams face a striking paradox: while 87% of marketers report that data is their company’s most under-utilized asset, I regularly encounter teams drowning in dashboards they don’t trust and metrics that don’t drive decisions. I’ve discovered something counterintuitive: teams with more data often make worse decisions than those with less…
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Lead Generation Myths That Are Costing You Revenue
Let’s be brutally honest: most B2B lead generation is just expensive list building with extra steps. You’re burning budget on campaigns that generate “leads” who will never buy anything, while your sales team complains that marketing leads are trash. Sound familiar? Good. Because admitting you have a problem is the first step to fixing it.…
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The Death of Spray and Pray: Why AI-Driven Personalization is the Only Marketing That Matters in 2025
When Everyone Gets the Same Message, Nobody Feels Special My research, implementation, and observation of AI marketing systems leaves me noticing a pattern: companies broadcasting identical messages to thousands of people are being systematically outcompeted by those delivering individualized experiences at scale. The data confirms what I see in practice: customers spend 38% more when…
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The AI Marketing Skills Gap Crisis: Why Most Teams Are Still Using AI Like It’s 2022
When Advanced Technology Meets Amateur Implementation Despite widespread coverage of AI in marketing, surveys reveal a troubling reality: while 75% of marketers use AI in their day-to-day roles, most are dramatically underutilizing their investments. I’ve discovered the gap between AI’s potential and actual results isn’t a technology problem—it’s a strategic thinking problem. The Efficiency Theater…
Marissa Homere 