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GTM Confessions EP 04: The Marketer With No Industry | Brandi Eppolito, CMO at Moxie
Brandi Eppolito, CMO at Moxie, has gone from ecommerce to K-12 to DEI hiring to EdTech to medspas. This episode digs into whether
GTM Confessions EP 03: The CRO Who Keeps Starting Over | Matt Schatz, CRO at Hivelocity
Matt Schatz, CRO at Hivelocity, has rebuilt revenue organizations six times across Rackspace, WP Engine, Bazaarvoice, and more. This episode breaks down what
GTM Confessions EP 02: A Letter To Marketing From A CRO | Kevin Feagan, CRO at Cleverbridge
Kevin Feagan, CRO at Cleverbridge, says what most CROs won't say on camera. What marketing reports that means nothing to sales, and what
GTM Confessions EP 04: The Marketer With No Industry | Brandi Eppolito, CMO at Moxie
Brandi Eppolito, CMO at Moxie, has gone from ecommerce to K-12 to DEI hiring to EdTech to medspas. This episode digs into whether
GTM Confessions EP 03: The CRO Who Keeps Starting Over | Matt Schatz, CRO at Hivelocity
Matt Schatz, CRO at Hivelocity, has rebuilt revenue organizations six times across Rackspace, WP Engine, Bazaarvoice, and more. This episode breaks down what
GTM Confessions EP 02: A Letter To Marketing From A CRO | Kevin Feagan, CRO at Cleverbridge
Kevin Feagan, CRO at Cleverbridge, says what most CROs won't say on camera. What marketing reports that means nothing to sales, and what
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S1E1: Dinosaurs, leave-behinds, and the art of evoking jealousy.
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S1E3: Being singularly focused, versus being everything to everybody.
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Founder-Led Content Is How a Founder Brand Gets Built On Social
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What to Expect From an Ad Creative Service And What to Own In-House
The creative agency vs. in-house debate is really about your operating model:...
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What B2B Content Creator Rates Really Buy: Trust, Not Impressions
Your brand’s B2B marketing strategy involves evaluating B2B creator pricing similar to...
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How to Build a B2B Reddit Advertising Strategy
Strong B2B Reddit campaigns organize audiences around the communities and problems buyers care about.
TikTok Ads Vs LinkedIn Ads For B2B: How To Allocate Paid Social Budget
TikTok can extend paid social reach beyond LinkedIn’s finite professional audiences at a lower media cost.
The Ultimate Guide to Building a B2B SaaS Go-to-Market Strategy
A hybrid GTM motion is often the most realistic path for B2B SaaS. Buyers may want to explore on their own first, then
How To Set Up B2B YouTube Ads: Campaigns, Formats, And Tracking
The YouTube ads audience, offer, video, and conversion signal must work together.
When to Outsource TikTok Ads for B2B: In-House vs. Agency
Outsourcing makes sense when TikTok expertise, creative capacity, or execution bandwidth is limiting the program.
Google Ads for B2B in 2026: Performance Statistics and Benchmarks
Google Ads can become expensive quickly, especially when using broad keywords, having weak landing pages, or lacking proper tracking. This turns paid search
Reddit Ads Targeting for B2B: How to Reach the Right Buyers
Community targeting is strongest when audience selection reflects real buying problems instead of simply choosing the largest relevant subreddits.
How To Build B2B YouTube Campaigns That Convert
A B2B YouTube campaign can be creating value long before it produces a direct conversion.
Directive Voices: More Clicks Isn’t The Point In B2B E-Commerce
Lauren Marks explains why optimizing for traffic fails in B2B ecommerce — and why the real conversation starts with channel strategy, MAP enforcement,
B2B TikTok Targeting Guide: Audiences, Interests, and Lookalikes
The strength of TikTok is combining audience signals, first-party data, and machine learning to find people likely to engage and convert.
YouTube Shorts For B2B: How To Build A Pipeline Channel With Short-Form Video
B2B buyers use YouTube to solve real business problems long before they request a demo.
The Ultimate LinkedIn Influencer Marketing Guide for B2B
B2B influencer marketing fails the moment you apply B2C playbooks to an enterprise buying committee.
How to Run Facebook Lead Generation Ads Without Low-Quality Leads
Facebook lead quality is designed across the full operating path: the offer, audience, form, CRM, routing rules, sales response, and optimization signal.
How to Run B2B Video Ads That Generate Pipeline
B2B video budgets usually get scrutinized for the wrong reason. The production cost is visible immediately. The revenue impact is not.
B2B Instagram Ads: Why They Work and How to Build Pipeline
Your next enterprise buyer may see your category POV on Instagram hours before reviewing a vendor shortlist at work.
YouTube For B2B Marketing: The Ultimate Guide To Building A Pipeline Channel

Key Takeaways YouTube is an underused B2B pipeline channel because too many teams still treat it as awareness media. Organic
TikTok Ads Manager Reporting For B2B: What To Track, Trust, and Optimize
TikTok only credits conversions inside the attribution window you select, leaving much of a long B2B buying journey invisible inside the platform.
A Strategic Guide to Instagram Retargeting Ads for B2B
Instagram retargeting earns a place in a revenue-first B2B paid social strategy when it does more than recover abandoned traffic.
How to Capture B2B Demand with LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms
LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms are useful because they remove friction at a moment when buyers are already self-educating.
LinkedIn Ads Management: Building a Better B2B Growth Engine
Most conversations about LinkedIn ads management focus on the work happening inside Campaign Manager.
An Executive Guide to B2B Thought Leadership Agencies
B2B thought leadership agencies identify where market perception needs to move, build the expert portfolio, manage the partnership program, protect the brand, and
How YouTube Ads Earn Their Place in a B2B Media Budget

Key Takeaways YouTube earns budget when it changes the questions buyers bring into search, sales, and vendor evaluation. Reach matters
B2B Paid Social: The Strategic Guide to Building Pipeline Across LinkedIn, Meta, and More
Paid social is one of the few channels where B2B marketing leaders can choose the market they want to influence before buyers show
YouTube Targeting Guide for B2B: Audiences, Topics, Keywords, and AI
Buyers use YouTube to understand categories, compare approaches, evaluate vendors, watch product walkthroughs, follow subject-matter experts, and validate assumptions before they speak to
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20 Retail and Wholesale Marketing Agencies That Turn Catalogs Into B2B Revenue
Retail and wholesale growth looks simple from the outside because a product, a price, and a place to buy already exist.
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Directive Voices: Ask Your CFO What PR Drove Last Quarter. See What Happens.
Kimberly Deese explains why PR budgets die in boardrooms and shares three frameworks for tying earned media to metrics your CFO actually tracks...without
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S1E1: Dinosaurs, leave-behinds, and the art of evoking jealousy.
Garrett Mehrguth has a heart-to-heart with Alina Vandenberghe, Co-founder & co-Ceo @Chili Piper, about the merits of physical gifts from vendors, and how sales and marketing should be pointing their ship sin the same direction… or sink on their own.
S1E2: Applying the Liquid Death shock value to B2B marketing.
Think you know how to best your competition? Comparison may be the exact opposite thing you should. See why when Garrett Mehrguth sits down with Anthony Kannada, Founder & CEO at AudiencePlus.
S1E3: Being singularly focused, versus being everything to everybody.
With digital covered, how do you effectively surround an account from a physical perspective and really get them to notice you? Garrett Mehrguth gets the scoop from Corinna Owens, Fractional ABM, GTM Advisor, and podcast host.