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7 Best B2B Marketing Automation Platforms (Updated April 2026)

Your CRM is full of leads that will never buy. Your emails are going out to everyone at once. And somewhere in a Slack thread, a sales rep is asking marketing why the accounts they’re working look completely cold in the system. The best B2B marketing automation platforms ease these challenges by giving revenue teams […]

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How to Prioritize Accounts With Intent Data (and, More Importantly, How NOT to Do It)

There’s a moment every RevOps and marketing ops practitioner knows: the dashboard says 47 accounts are “surging.” But which ones actually matter? The tool says “high intent.” But high intent for what? Based on what? Compared to what baseline? When signals pile up without context, they stop being signals and start being noise. The goal […]

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8 Best B2B Programmatic Advertising Platforms in 2026

Modern B2B programmatic advertising platforms should combine demand-side platform (DSP) technology, account-based advertising, audience segmentation, real-time bidding (RTB), and buyer intent signals to drive measurable revenue outcomes. CMOs, demand generation managers, ABM managers, paid media managers, and revenue operations leaders all use programmatic differently, but the goal is the same: reach the right accounts at […]

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Revenue Marketing Guide: How to Align Marketing with Revenue Goals 

If your CEO asked you right now what percentage of last quarter’s revenue your team directly influenced, could you answer with confidence? If the honest answer is “not really,” you’re not alone. But the pressure to have that answer — and to have it ready for every QBR — is only growing. CEOs and CROs […]

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Campaign Launch Readiness: 15 Questions Before You Go Live

Every B2B campaign launch checklist you’ll find online tells you to verify your links and double-check your UTMs. That’s solid advice, but it’s not where campaigns actually fall apart. The breakdowns happen earlier and run deeper: By the time the symptoms show up in your pipeline report, you’ve already burned the budget. This checklist is […]

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Top RollWorks Alternatives for 2026 to Boost Your Revenue Intelligence 

RollWorks is an account-based marketing (ABM) and advertising platform that helps B2B companies identify target accounts, engage across channels, and measure impact.   Rollworks is popular for companies that need to get ABM advertising going very quickly. Setup is minimal, which can make it a good choice for teams that are starting their ABM program from zero.  As sales goals and ad budgets grow, […]

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Top Clay Alternatives in 2026 for Sales Prospecting and Automation

Many sales teams have turned to Clay for its data enrichment and workflow automation capabilities. Clay’s flexible architecture provides a playground for revenue operations professionals to custom build sophisticated automations that connect other parts of their tech stack. The core challenge driving companies to explore Clay alternatives is the high barrier of expertise needed to […]

10 Hacks Great Teams Use to Scale ABM

The challenge Enterprise organizations are in the middle of massive GTM transformations—but not everyone makes it through successfully. Teams get stuck with messy data, overwhelmed sellers, siloed campaigns, and stale target account lists. This leads to wasted ad spend, disjointed buyer experiences, and misalignment between sales and marketing that leaves pipeline on the table. Eric […]

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How Competing Timelines Undermine Sales and Marketing Alignment (and How to Fix It)

Here’s the uncomfortable truth about sales and marketing alignment: Most companies treat it like a relationship problem that can be fixed with better communication. More Slack channels. Weekly syncs. Trust falls at the offsite. But the real issue isn’t about getting along better. It’s about operating on fundamentally incompatible timelines. B2B buying cycles average 10 […]

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Sales Hears It First. Marketing Hears It Never. Building a Customer Conversation Feedback Loop.

Your sales team talks to buyers every single day. They hear which messages land and which fall flat. They know what objections keep coming up, which competitors are circling, and what content actually helps push deals forward. Marketing? They’re creating campaigns based on last quarter’s research, personas built in a workshop six months ago, and […]

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Where Buyers Use LLMs in the Journey (And What That Means for Your Strategy)

When 94% of B2B buyers report using large language models during their purchase process, it’s easy to assume we’re witnessing a fundamental shift in how research happens. The narrative writes itself: buyers turn to ChatGPT first, vendors get cut out of early conversations, and the traditional sales cycle gets compressed or bypassed entirely. Except our […]

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How ABX Can Unite Sales and Marketing for Life

Sales and marketing: Oil and water. Different planets. Destined to clash. Ashley Deibert doesn’t buy it. In her first job in marketing, she sat between two sales reps, helping them fill out RFP responses. She’s never understood why the two functions are treated as natural enemies when they’re chasing the same goal. But she’s also […]