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What Do Cybersecurity Buyers Care About in 2026
NOLA Marketing and the Ponemon Institute produced a great piece of research a few months back on the buying preferences of cybersecurity buyers. I've been meaning to write about it for a while now and finally found some time. Full disclosure: I know both of the authors but I recommend my fellow marketers read the report because it has some great insights. Here are my top five takeaways. 1. Cybersecurity Buyers are Using AI More than one-third of buyers … [Read More...]

AI in Marketing Part 2: Buyer Persona Research
There’s been no shortage of bold claims about how AI will revolutionize (or ruin) marketing. I’ve spent the last six months experimenting with AI tools to understand how they could actually help my team. In this article series, I’ll walk you through the use cases that I’ve found most promising. Companies don’t buy products, people do. I’ve done B2B sales and marketing for my whole career, and I’ve seen how often my colleagues forget this very basic principle. All the talk these days seems to … [Read More...]

AI in Marketing Part 1: Optimizing for the New World of Search
There’s been no shortage of bold claims about how AI will revolutionize (or ruin) marketing. I’ve spent the last six months experimenting with AI tools to understand how they could help my team. In this article series, I’ll walk you through the use cases that I’ve found most promising. Connecting with buyers through web search is by now a decades-old practice for marketers. Most marketing teams do some level of search engine optimization (SEO). But AI has brought some big changes to search. … [Read More...]
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The Professional Marketer
Distilled from his career in the marketing trenches, Tim Mattthews has written the complete guide to the essential skills every marketer needs to master. If you work as a marketer, or hope to become one, you have a lot to know. The Professional Marketer is your guide book.





