More Isn’t More
B2B marketing is broken. Too many marketers are on a persistent hunt for more, more, more. Too many buyers are hounded, emailed to death…
Pace & Precision
What’s on CEOs’ minds these days? There is no shortage of topics fresh out of our Outsell CEO Network meetings in New York and London these…
Your AI Why
Outsell partner, respected colleague, and AI strategy advisor Jennifer S. Ives, often speaks about the importance of a company’s “AI Why,”…
AI Licensing
Our clients have access to our network of internal and external SMEs to answer their ad-hoc questions that drive revenue and mitigate risk…
Humans in the Loop
My husband was cold-called proverbially speaking and the email outreach was so good one simply had no choice but to take notice. The…
Etiquette School
Anthropic’s profits are turning a corner, OpenAI won a suit but left Sam’s reputation in tatters. Meta is laying off 8000 people…
Thinking out Loud
Once in a while, it’s hard not to stop and take stock of the things going on around our industry that don’t add up. Or if they do, they…
Outsell Q1/Q2 Sales Benchmark
More participants are meeting plan and nearly two-thirds are reporting year-over-year gains from this same time last year. Gains continue…
Software’s Exaggerated Demise
There is a lot of coverage about the software industry’s demise due to AI. Just like Mark Twain’s famous saying, “reports of my death are…
Right to Win
We’ve been answering a lot of questions lately about semantic technology, agentic access and where companies have a right to win and how…
Jettison the Term Audience
Any way you cut it, the word ‘audience’ is passe. It is simply time to ‘red flag’ the term especially in media, events, and by extension of…
Missing the Moat
Last week I promised an update on the essential actions for the coming year and closing remarks in my preso in FL. Too many B2B data…
Outsell 𝘼𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝘼! Assessment™
How ironic that over at Anthropic human error let code out of the barn door and the firm issued a copyright takedown for remedy. Wonders…
RevvedUP 2026
Coming off a packed 2 days in St. Pete, we ran the gamut from keynotes and panels to movement snacks and lawn games.
Two Conversations
Across today’s conversations, two seminal points stood out: “We went from CD-ROM to the web in twenty years and on-prem to SaaS in ten…
Uncomfortable Truths
It’s funny how each tech cycle brings around the uncomfortable truths that we keep avoiding. Once again, free business models collide with…
Events are Not a Moat
There is power in tradeshows, events, conferences, festivals, summits, fairs, workshops, salons — whatever the format and whatever they are…
CEO Topics
Markets swing. Weeks feel like a dog year. A CEO’s job is never done until it’s over. It’s why we spend so much time serving CEOs. Their…
Neighborhoods
Anthropic’s Claude has our industry in its crosshairs. OpenAI targets scholarly workflow with Prism. CAS breaks the mold and becomes part…
Look Who’s Coming
What a week! Two weeks ago: Two hands on the steering wheel, hair blown back! Might I add the sunroof is open and the top is down.
Ready to Win?
We’ll soon know what Gartner received for selling Capterra, Software Advice, and GetApp. Big news this week in our fast-changing A!-driven…
Whiplash
So many topics. So little time. CEOs I am speaking with this week have whiplash. Time to head to our Outsell CEO Network Meetings and to…
CEO Agenda
So much to do this year and so little time. While the industry moves at warp-speed 9, our annual survey of industry CEOs points to major…
Digital Detox
Happy New Year! Fresh starts, new opportunities, old habits to break. It’s that time of year again and rituals now include ‘fake news…
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