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I’ve Been Flattening Our Writing for AI Search. I’m Not Sure It Was Right

How the B2B Content Review Process Kills Good Writing

How to Measure Thought Leadership ROI

Why More CEOs See Marketing as a Cost Center

The Double AI Lie: You’re Losing Time and Your Edge

The Lab Results Are Fine: When B2B Marketing Data Hides a Sick System

Why AI Is Ignoring Your B2B Customer Case Studies

The Thought Leader’s Shortcut: Build a Content Bank From 1 Asset

The Trust Gap: Why Human Content Wins in an AI Market

How to Repurpose 1 Case Study Into 5 Marketing Assets
Key takeaways: Treating a B2B customer case study as a single PDF leaves valuable material unused. With a journalistic interview and upfront planning, you can repurpose one customer story into five marketing assets across the buyer journey: a one-pager, sales deck slide, native LinkedIn post, email nurture touchpoint and website

How to Measure Thought Leadership ROI
Key takeaways: Thought leadership ROI goes far beyond likes, impressions and website traffic. The most effective measurement strategy tracks awareness, buyer engagement and revenue together, giving marketing leaders a clear view of the business results. When you also measure the value generated for every hour your experts invest, you gain

The Lab Results Are Fine: When B2B Marketing Data Hides a Sick System
Key takeaways: Healthy B2B marketing data can make a broken system look fine. Isolated metrics, such as organic traffic, cost per click and lead volume, can hide problems with buyer intent, sales trust and pipeline movement. When sales cycles exceed historical norms or sales teams stop trusting marketing leads, marketing

The Thought Leader’s Shortcut: Build a Content Bank From 1 Asset
Key takeaways: Break one anchor asset into a Content Bank of articles, social posts, carousels, videos and sales tools. Use a content repurposing strategy and employee advocacy to distribute those assets and support a 90-day, multichannel campaign. This allows you to reach buyers throughout their research process. In the last

The Trust Gap: Why Human Content Wins in an AI Market
Key takeaways: Human-first content in B2B is grounded in experience, a clear point of view and informed judgment. It helps buyers build trust before they with speak with sales. For years at The Simons Group, our North Star has been “content-first.” It’s how we keep the focus where it belongs:

Stop Asking Experts to Write: The Two-Touchpoint Content Workflow
Key takeaways: A two-touchpoint content workflow concentrates expert involvement into two focused moments that support speed, cost discipline and buyer expectations. By structuring participation around an input session and an accuracy review, organizations share insights while buyers are evaluating options. In addition, this workflow reduces inefficient use of expert time,

Create a Quarterly Content Planning Sprint
Key takeaways: Quarterly content planning gives B2B teams a clear, repeatable way to set direction before execution. Rather than reacting to scattered requests, teams align on priorities, themes and proof points during a focused planning sprint that brings marketers and experts together at the right moment. Experts contribute insight once

The ROI of Content Marketing: Why Sales Wins Start With Relevance
Key takeaways: The ROI of content marketing is measured by its ability to accelerate sales cycles, increase pipeline value and establish credibility before sales outreach. By answering buyers’ questions early, content marketing reduces time to close and improves marketing-qualified leads to sales-qualified leads (MQL to SQL) conversion rates. Effective content

Build a Scalable Thought Leadership Content Strategy
Key takeaways: A strong thought leadership content strategy treats expert time like the scarce resource it is. With one structured input session and one final accuracy review, you build a full quarter of content from a single anchor asset. By bringing experts in early and giving them clear direction, the

5 Essential Questions Shaping B2B Content Marketing in 2026
2026 is coming fast, and B2B content marketing is changing again. The basics still matter – grabbing attention, building trust and driving action – but leadership will expect rock-solid proof that content is moving the business forward. With artificial (AI) tools everywhere, complex buying teams in place, and growing pressure