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Content Marketing

B2B Content Marketing Strategy for 2026: Build for Buyers and AI Search

A B2B content marketing strategy built for the AI search era: tie content to buyer problems, demand generation, and pipeline instead of volume nobody uses.

Tony Bradberry · July 16, 2026
Find the leak — B2B website conversion optimization
Business Strategy

B2B Website Conversion Rate Optimization: The Playbook for Pipeline, Not Rate Tricks

B2B website conversion rate optimization is not a checklist of button colors. Here is the systematic playbook: find the leak, fix the message, cut friction, and tie every change to pipeline.

Tony Bradberry · July 14, 2026
Manufacturing engineer's desk with technical blueprints, precision machined parts, and a monitor displaying search results — representing a manufacturing marketing strategy built around buyer search behavior
Marketing Strategy

Manufacturing Marketing Strategy: How to Build One That Drives Pipeline, Not Activity

A manufacturing marketing strategy should build pipeline, not activity. Here's the framework: positioning, buyer-intent content, demand capture, and revenue measurement.

Tony Bradberry · July 9, 2026
SEO for manufacturers - manufacturing company website visibility in search engines
Manufacturing

SEO for Manufacturers: The Complete Playbook for Getting Found by Buyers Who Are Already Searching

Manufacturing SEO is how industrial companies get found by buyers researching online. The complete playbook: industry pages, buyer-intent content, technical fixes, and lead generation.

Tony Bradberry · July 7, 2026
Woman at a laptop reviewing an AI assistant's ranked shortlist of vendor recommendations
Marketing Strategy

How B2B Buyers Use AI to Choose Vendors (And How to Become the Answer)

The biggest shift in AI in B2B marketing is on the buyer's side of the table. Here is how B2B buyers now use AI to research and shortlist vendors, and how to become the answer.

Tony Bradberry · July 6, 2026
The 2026 B2B SEO Checklist — eight moves that drive pipeline, not just traffic
SEO

B2B SEO Best Practices for 2026: What Actually Drives Pipeline

B2B SEO best practices for 2026, built around pipeline instead of traffic. How B2B organic search differs from B2C, and the eight moves that get you found and chosen.

Tony Bradberry · June 30, 2026
Person using AI search on a laptop to research B2B solutions
Marketing Strategy

Generative Engine Optimization for B2B: How to Show Up in AI Search

Generative engine optimization is how B2B brands earn citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Here is what it is, why it matters more than most B2B teams realize, and the operational checklist for getting your brand into the answers your buyers are already reading.

Tony Bradberry · June 23, 2026
Chart showing B2B ROAS growing over 365 days, with annotation: your campaign isn't failing, B2B ROAS needs time.
Marketing Strategy

How to Calculate ROAS for B2B Lead Generation Campaigns

A practical guide to calculating ROAS for B2B lead gen: why the ecommerce formula breaks, three methods that work with long sales cycles, and what to report to whom.

Andy Hendricks · June 22, 2026
Marketing analytics dashboard displayed on a conference room screen, showing an upward-trending green line chart alongside bar graphs and a data table — representing the kind of pipeline and revenue metrics B2B SEO reporting should deliver.
Content Marketing

B2B SEO Reporting Is Broken. Here's What to Measure Instead.

The standard B2B SEO report in 2026 looks almost identical to the one from 2016. Keyword rankings, a traffic graph, a visibility score. Ten years of fundamental change in how search works and the way we report on SEO hasn't moved at all. Here's what to measure instead.

Andy Hendricks · June 5, 2026
Google I/O 2026 keynote stage with presenter and audience
Marketing Strategy

Google I/O 2026 Just Rewrote the Search Playbook. Here's What B2B Marketers Should Actually Do About It.

Google made AI Mode the default Search experience this week. The 25-year-old ten blue links interface that the entire B2B search playbook was built around is no longer the default. Here's what changed, what it breaks, and what B2B marketers should do about it right now.

Andy Hendricks · May 21, 2026
Messy Sales Rep Desk
Marketing Strategy

Your Sales Team Is Sitting on Your Best Marketing Data (And None of It’s Being Captured)

Your sales team talks to buyers every day. They hear the objections, competitor mentions, and deal signals that tell you what buyers actually care about. In many B2B companies, none of that gets captured in a usable way. Here’s why CRM strategy plus AI fundamentally changes how marketing and sales operate together.

Tony Bradberry · April 28, 2026
Person Searching AI for Company
Marketing Strategy

How to Test If Your B2B Company Shows Up in AI Search (And Why Most Don’t)

Most B2B companies track Google rankings but have no idea whether they show up when buyers ask ChatGPT or Perplexity about the problems they solve. Here’s how to run a directional agentic search visibility test yourself in one afternoon, no tools or agency required.

Tony Bradberry · April 14, 2026
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