Blog

Insights from the
growth engine room

Playbooks, postmortems and working numbers from ten years of B2B growth. No fluff, sources included.

Marketing Ops

How I run website projects without due dates

A project-management system for web work: one board, two views, and sizes in place of dates.

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Marketing Ops

How I manage trade shows from one page per show

An operating system for events: one page per show, five fixed sections, one layer that carries between them.

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Growth

Search Ads competitor research, rebuilt as an agent pipeline

Every keyword in one bucket, totals reconciled, 47 went live.

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Growth

Building an ABM list from technology signals

Building a North America ABM universe from technology signals instead of industry codes, and the version-by-version.

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AI & Automation

The trade-show follow-up system: badges to CRM

Most trade-show leads die in a pocket.

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SEO & Content

Slicing a 14-chapter whitepaper into a lead engine

One chapter becomes four assets; the gated playbook turns readers into leads.

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AI & Automation

How I built an AI lead scoring assistant for B2B fintech, twice

Lead scoring with no engineers and no black box, wired through the stack sales already lived in.

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SEO & Content

How I use ChatGPT for SEO: intent, metadata, audits

ChatGPT as a research and editorial systems assistant.

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SEO & Content

AI search optimization (GEO): what actually matters now

Unlinked mentions beat backlinks, and answer-first structure beats polished prose. Run the robots.txt check first.

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SEO & Content

Two listicles beat my whole site: notes from a GEO log

What months of watching the GEO log changed about where the effort goes.

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AI & Automation

Two Zapier + GPT flows for a one-person support desk

One rep, one inbox, four departments' mail.

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SEO & Content

How I use data + AI so my content team writes articles that rank

A scored content pipeline for a team writing in a second language: competitor scans, an AI outline, and a score before a word gets drafted.

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AI & Automation

How I automated a messy monthly report using an LLM

Zapier, a schema and a custom GPT turn a two-hour monthly close into five minutes, with PII stripped before the model sees a row.

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Growth

From B2C traffic buying to a B2B fintech affiliate program

What six years of B2C affiliate taught me, and what B2B fintech added: partner vetting, payout rules, and a bad payout as a compliance problem.

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Marketing Ops

Scaling a new product launch on record design

The biggest risk in a referral-driven launch is data.

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Lifecycle

Designing a referral-driven lifecycle without breaking trust

Suppliers met our product through a payment.

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Growth

Building a referral-led growth system for a new B2B payment feature

FUSION grew through the customers we already had.

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Marketing Ops

Email intake, rebuilt: one form, one board, one launch sequence

The process around email was the broken part.

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Lifecycle

Rebuilding onboarding email: 140 hours to 48

One shared MailChimp account, three regions, no owner.

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Lifecycle

Email marketing: timing beats copy

What actually moves lifecycle numbers in B2B and fintech: timing, triggers, and clean user state.

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Marketing Ops

Fixing a cross-domain tracking problem that shouldn't have taken two months

Paid attribution was dead for two months and every UTM evaporated at the domain crossing.

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Marketing Ops

How I approach landing page testing (without overthinking it)

Where landing pages actually fail, and how I test for it.

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SEO & Content

Keyword research for a fintech company: clicks, compliance, intent

In fintech, keyword research is about intent, trust, and risk.

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SEO & Content

Running notes on GEO, AI search, and what actually matters

Testing one claim at a time against my own site: make the change, watch the log, record what survived.

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Marketing Ops

Running social solo: a system and a $20 test loop

How to run social when you cannot outspend anyone: one message library, reusable templates, and a $20 angle test.

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Marketing Ops

Marketing ops that replaced chaos with a queue

The process layer that made everything else work.

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The engine room, monthly

One email a month. The playbooks and numbers that survived contact with reality.