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.
At early-stage companies, wearing many hats is the job. How to be honest about where you lead and where you need support, raise it with the hiring manager without scaring them, and negotiate the scope as well as the salary.
The full attack route, from a poisoned download in June to drained hot wallets on October 29, and what it means for anyone who hires, recruits or takes a recruiter’s call.
Most marketing AI policies list tools and tasks. The risk sits in the decisions AI now influences without anyone signing off. How to find them, score them on value, risk and frequency, and decide how much AI may do in each, with a free tool, playbook and workbook.
Most marketing board updates run twenty slides and end in a debate about CPM. The five slides that answer what directors are actually asking, the math behind the two that matter most, and why everything else goes in an appendix they read after the meeting.
One prompt, four steps, and the cybersecurity questions to answer before you connect a single account.
What to expect at 30 days, 90 days, and six months, how to hand off from a fractional leader, and when converting one to full-time works for both sides.
Fractional describes the contract, not the hours. How to shape an engagement around the gaps, set goals, and judge it at six months.
Both are good options. A look at how they differ, what each costs, and when one makes more sense than the other.
Sourced vs. influenced was never either-or, and fixing it costs nothing beyond the CRM you already pay for.
A year of my own LinkedIn data, LinkedIn’s own engineering notes, and what the biggest voices on the platform agree on.
The real cost and performance data, and why standing human oversight is the part nobody can skip.
A security deal is closed by a committee, not a company, and every seat on it goes to a different event. The methodology for aligning events to the buying committee, picking one goal per event, and deciding when the booth is worth it.
Readiness, real costs, boutique firms, and how to measure what it's worth.
An August 2026 snapshot: 2,615 open roles at 458 companies tracked. 2% of postings were leadership-level, and pipeline generation trailed closing capacity.
CMO, CRO, RevOps, GTM Engineer, and more: what each one actually owns, and which one you need.
75% of B2B search now enters through AI answer engines. Here's the dual-track framework for winning both.
Most ICPs are aspirational, not actual. Learn how to map the full buying committee, run closed-won analysis, and close the gap between who you want to sell to and who actually buys.
A free tool that works backward from your ARR target through win rate and sales cycle lag, segmented by ICP or product line, to build a month-by-month pipeline creation calendar.
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.
Why a defensible marketing budget is the output of backward funnel math, not a percentage pulled from a benchmark deck.
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.
A live crawler that tracks open GTM roles at pre-IPO cybersecurity companies every night, built because a job search deserves the same rigor as a client’s pipeline.
A free tool that reveals more about how I operate as a GTM leader than any bullet point could.
A 1,112% ROI executive summit, built from a blank page. The buyer-first process behind it is what most field marketing programs skip.
A 36x pipeline-to-spend agentic SDR pilot, and why the tool was never the hard part. The ICP work underneath it was.