More Isn’t More

More Isn’t More

Anthea Stratigos Jun 26, 2026 5 min read

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

Pace & Precision

Anthea Stratigos Jun 19, 2026 3 min read

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

Your AI Why

Anthea Stratigos Jun 12, 2026 4 min read

Outsell partner, respected colleague, and AI strategy advisor Jennifer S. Ives, often speaks about the importance of a company’s “AI Why,”…

AI Licensing

AI Licensing

Anthea Stratigos Jun 5, 2026 4 min read

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

Humans in the Loop

Anthea Stratigos May 29, 2026 3 min read

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

Etiquette School

Anthea Stratigos May 22, 2026 3 min read

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

Thinking out Loud

Anthea Stratigos May 15, 2026 5 min read

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

Outsell Q1/Q2 Sales Benchmark

Anthea Stratigos May 8, 2026 3 min read

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

Software’s Exaggerated Demise

Anthea Stratigos May 1, 2026 4 min read

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

Right to Win

Anthea Stratigos Apr 24, 2026 3 min read

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

Jettison the Term Audience

Anthea Stratigos Apr 17, 2026 5 min read

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

Missing the Moat

Anthea Stratigos Apr 10, 2026 4 min read

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™

Outsell 𝘼𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝘼! Assessment™

Anthea Stratigos Apr 3, 2026 5 min read

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

RevvedUP 2026

Anthea Stratigos Mar 27, 2026 6 min read

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

Two Conversations

Anthea Stratigos Mar 20, 2026 3 min read

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

Uncomfortable Truths

Anthea Stratigos Mar 13, 2026 7 min read

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

Events are Not a Moat

Anthea Stratigos Mar 6, 2026 4 min read

There is power in tradeshows, events, conferences, festivals, summits, fairs, workshops, salons — whatever the format and whatever they are…

CEO Topics

CEO Topics

Anthea Stratigos Feb 27, 2026 5 min read

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

Neighborhoods

Anthea Stratigos Feb 20, 2026 5 min read

Anthropic’s Claude has our industry in its crosshairs. OpenAI targets scholarly workflow with Prism. CAS breaks the mold and becomes part…

Shots across the Bow

Shots across the Bow

Anthea Stratigos Feb 13, 2026 4 min read

In the span of one week:

Look Who’s Coming

Look Who’s Coming

Anthea Stratigos Feb 6, 2026 2 min read

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?

Ready to Win?

Anthea Stratigos Jan 30, 2026 4 min read

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

Whiplash

Anthea Stratigos Jan 23, 2026 4 min read

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

CEO Agenda

Anthea Stratigos Jan 16, 2026 3 min read

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

Digital Detox

Anthea Stratigos Jan 9, 2026 3 min read

Happy New Year! Fresh starts, new opportunities, old habits to break. It’s that time of year again and rituals now include ‘fake news…