Marketing Accountability Council
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Marketing Has Bad Breath, Not Halitosis ↗
Growth & InnovationListerine turned bad breath into halitosis. Marketing has done the same, turning ordinary uncertainty into urgent and curable problems. Learn how to respond to the funk.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗I Heard It Through the Fakevine ↗
Growth & InnovationFrom Marvin Gaye to fake followers, ad fraud, bots, and manufactured consensus: what happens when the grapevine becomes the marketplace, and nobody knows what’s real?
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗The marketing industry is burning its own talent ↗
Growth & InnovationWhat Stacey Duguid's job search, Andrew Bowins' pivot, and the Marketing Accountability Council reveal about marketing's real accountability problem
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗Your Next Marketing Decision Could Save Democracy ↗
Growth & InnovationBusiness futurist and author Doug Stephens stops by the MAC to talk about his new book, explain why saving democracy is good business, and explore how marketers can help.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗"Be More Strategic" Is the Most Useless Advice in Marketing ↗
Growth & InnovationMost marketers think being strategic means connecting their work to revenue and learning the language. But that advice often keeps marketers trapped in execution mode.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗The Right Message Mirage ↗
Growth & InnovationA familiar marketing ideal can become more useful when teams replace impossible precision with sound audience judgment, respectful relevance, and continuous learning.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗Nobody Wants Your Whitepaper Anymore ↗
Growth & InnovationThe value exchange that built modern B2B marketing is collapsing. What replaces it will require a different kind of marketer entirely.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗Marketers Must Stop Being Card Counters ↗
Growth & InnovationWhy Our Odd Obsession With Odds Isn’t Optimal
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗My Inside Look at Udacity’s Desperate Marketing Machine ↗
Growth & InnovationI was Ghosted by the Recruiter then Spammed by Udacity's Desparate Marketing Machine
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗Marketing Didn’t Get Tied to Revenue by Accident: A Historiography ↗
Growth & InnovationMarketing didn’t get reduced to a pipeline machine by accident. It happened because, at a critical moment, marketing couldn’t explain its value and what replaced it reshaped the entire function.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗The Zeitgeist Didn’t Die, We Stopped Feeding It ↗
Growth & InnovationAnd Marketers Must Stop Trying to Feed Off It
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗The Day I Realized Personas Were Useless ↗
Growth & InnovationThis article breaks down why personas suck, what they’re hiding, and what you actually need to understand if you want your marketing to stop blending in and start working.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗Did Marketing Kill the BDR Role? ↗
Growth & InnovationWe’ve been asking BDRs to turn clicks into conversations, then blaming them when it doesn’t work. This piece breaks down how marketing quietly set them up to fail.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗Why “Best Practices" Can Only Lead to “Average at Best” ↗
Growth & InnovationMany B2B campaigns rely on the same underlying template. This article explores how teams can move beyond default practices and build strategy around their customers, strengths, and evidence.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗Why Marketing Gets Disrespected in B2B Organizations ↗
Growth & InnovationMarketing has been made "simple", so everyone thinks they know how to do marketing. That has lead to a complete lack of understanding and disrespect of the function.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗Is Your Self Worth Tied to a Dashboard? ↗
Growth & InnovationA reflection on separating professional self-worth from dashboard results so marketers can learn more honestly, make better decisions, and build work that matters.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗Resist and Unsubscribe ↗
Growth & InnovationWhen the Only Lever Left Is the Market
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗Making Lemonade Out of Don Lemon ↗
Growth & InnovationThis month marks two years of the Marketing Accountability Council, and over the next few weeks, I’ll be writing reflections on where we started, where we’re headed, and what’s breaking (and changing) across marketing and business.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗MAC Reality Check - Paul Ruscoe on Control, Accountability, and Marketing Without Illusions ↗
Growth & InnovationWhy modern marketing’s obsession with control is making us worse at the very thing we’re trying to improve.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗Demand Gen Isn’t Dead, but I’m Here to Kill It and Replace it With Something Much Better ↗
Growth & InnovationDemand generation is anti-marketing.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗The cost of silence in marketing is too high ↗
Growth & InnovationDigital marketing too often rewards performance over principle.
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Read on MarTech · External site ↗Lost at CES: A Guided Tour of Marketing’s Collective Delusion ↗
Growth & InnovationA candid look at the CES marketing pilgrimage—and how marketers and technologists can move past performance to have more useful conversations about innovation, brand, and customer value.
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