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GTM strategy,
in the open

Field notes on go-to-market alignment, cybersecurity marketing, and what it actually looks like to build demand from zero. Written from the operator's seat, not the sidelines.

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Career Strategy

The Real Cost of a Marketing Leader Mis-Hire

Search fees, severance, lost momentum, and the candidate's own career cost stack up fast. The CEO and board decisions that prevent it are rarely made before the search starts.

August 3, 2026 11 min read
GTM Strategy

How to Scope a Year-Long Marketing Budget for Early-Stage SaaS: A Funnel-First Framework

Why a defensible marketing budget is the output of backward funnel math, not a percentage pulled from a benchmark deck.

July 29, 2026 9 min read
Career Strategy

The Cobbler's Kids Aren't Going Barefoot Anymore: How Marketing My Own Beach Property Is Keeping Me Sharp

Why I gave a vacation rental the same brand-system, taxonomy, and positioning discipline I'd bring to an enterprise GTM stack, on purpose, during a job search.

July 21, 2026 5 min read
Career Strategy

What I Built for My Own Job Search Says More Than My Resume Does

A live crawler tracking 260+ pre-IPO cybersecurity companies for open GTM roles, built because a job search deserves the same rigor as a client's pipeline.

July 15, 2026 4 min read
GTM Strategy

Why I Built a Marketing/Sales Alignment Diagnostic

A free tool that reveals more about how I operate as a GTM leader than any bullet point could.

July 14, 2026 5 min read
Field Marketing

How I Build Field Marketing Programs: The Process Behind the True Passwordless Summit

A 1,112% ROI executive summit, built from a blank page. The buyer-first process behind it is what most field marketing programs skip.

June 25, 2026 6 min read
AI & Agentic Marketing

AI Won't Replace Your GTM Team. It Will Expose Its Gaps and Deficiencies Much Faster.

A 36x pipeline-to-spend agentic SDR pilot, and why the tool was never the hard part. The ICP work underneath it was.

June 16, 2026 7 min read