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GEO guide graphic showing how B2B CMOs can improve AI search visibility through crawlability, citations, credibility, and trusted signals.

THE GEO Guide for B2B CMOs: How to Get Found, Cited, Trusted, and Chosen in AI Search

A practical working guide for B2B CMOs who want to build visibility and trust in AI-generated answers.

June 27, 2026
23 minutes
Drew Neisser
Read Insight
How Brands Grow and Byron Sharp appear beside three B2B growth principles: mental availability, physical availability, and distinctive brand assets.
Book Insights

How B2B Brands Grow: What CMOs Can Take From Byron Sharp

May 29, 2026
6 minutes

Byron Sharp’s evidence-based framework connects B2B growth with mental availability, physical availability, distinctive brand assets, broad reach, and sustained investment.

Book Insights
Brand & Positioning
Read Insight
An anonymous CMO job-search path moves from research to thoughtful questions and a successful offer.
CMO Job Search

Questions Over Answers: How Curiosity Helped a CMO Land the Role

May 28, 2026
6 minutes

One Huddler used deep research, thoughtful questions, recruiter relationships, and a hypothesis-based plan to land a CMO role in a new industry.

CMO Job Search
CMO Career
CMO Job Search
Read Insight
The CRIT framework helps a leader use AI as a strategic thought partner while retaining human judgment.
Insights for CMOs

The AI-Driven Leader: What CMOs Need to Know About Leading With AI

May 27, 2026
6 minutes

Geoff Woods explains how AI can support strategic thinking when leaders focus on consequential problems, provide context, invite questions, and retain responsibility for judgment.

Insights for CMOs
AI & GenAI
Leadership
Read Insight
Alan Gonsenhauser, Katrina Klier, and Marshall Poindexter discuss discovery, focused sprints, and planned handoffs in fractional CMO engagements.
CMO Conversations

Fractional CMO or Consultant? How to Choose—and Succeed in—the Right Model

May 26, 2026
7 minutes

Three experienced fractional CMOs explain how fractional leadership differs from consulting and what makes a limited-time executive engagement work.

CMO Conversations
Org Design
CMO Career
Leadership
Read Insight
Dan Lowden, Lorie Coulombe, and Lynn Tornabene with three lessons for building analyst trust and market traction.
CMO Conversations

You Can’t Game Gartner: How CMOs Turn Analyst Trust Into Market Traction

May 25, 2026
5 min

Analyst relations earns market traction through relevance, useful briefings, prepared executives, clear differentiation, and consistent trust-building.

CMO Conversations
Brand & Positioning
GTM Strategy
Leadership
Read Insight
Heidi Bullock, Patti Newcomer, and Bindu Chellappan with three lessons for building a focused ABM growth motion.
CMO Conversations

ABM as a Motion: How CMOs Build Focused Growth

May 24, 2026
5 min

ABM works best as a shared growth motion built on focused accounts, clean data, seller-friendly workflows, and shared measurement.

CMO Conversations
Demand Gen
Sales & Marketing Alignment
Pipeline
GTM Strategy
Read Insight
Executive penguin leading a discussion as an AI robot sits at the marketing table, illustrating why human leadership still matters in the age of AI agents.
Drew's Takes

AI VP Of Marketing? Why Human Leaders Still Matter

May 23, 2026
2 minutes

A practical take on what AI agents can own and why marketing leadership still requires human judgment.

Drew's Takes
AI & GenAI
Leadership
Read Insight
Kay Moffett, Katrina Klier, and Lakshmi Randall discussing how CMOs communicate marketing value to CEOs and CFOs.
CMO Conversations

Talking Marketing With the CEO and CFO: How CMOs Earn Business Credibility

May 22, 2026
8 min read

Three experienced marketing leaders explain how CMOs connect marketing activity to executive priorities without reducing the function to short-term attribution.

CMO Conversations
Leadership
Board Dynamics
Pipeline
Brand & Positioning
Sales & Marketing Alignment
Read Insight
CMO Conversations

Build a Marketing Team That Performs—and Stays: Lessons in Growth and Grit

May 21, 2026
7 minutes

Three B2B CMOs share how complementary talent, clear priorities, intelligent failure, coaching, and shared AI learning support sustainable team performance.

CMO Conversations
Org Design
AI & GenAI
Leadership
Read Insight
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Every post uses one template with consistent structure, AEO Q&A blocks, internal links, and a clear end CTA.

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