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August 30 2026 Jay Feitlinger

Longer Sales Cycle vs. Stuck Deal Stage: What B2B Leaders Should Inspect First

Your average deal age is up six weeks from last year. The pipeline report still shows enough dollars to cover the number. Nobody in the Monday sales meeting can tell you which stage those six weeks came from, so the meeting turns into a deal-by-deal ...

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August 26 2026 Jay Feitlinger

Why Is Your LinkedIn Engagement Down It's Not Your Content?

Your team published solid content this month, and the platform served it to plenty of people, but the public engagement barely registered. Now you're staring at a flat LinkedIn report wondering whether the content failed or the scoreboard did, and ...

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August 24 2026 Jay Feitlinger

Marketing Metrics That Predict Revenue, and the Ones That Just Fill a Report

The marketing report lands the Monday before your leadership meeting, and it looks good. Sessions are up, form fills are up, email engagement is holding steady. Then your CFO or a board member asks what any of it did to revenue this quarter, and the ...

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August 18 2026 Jay Feitlinger

Should You Hire Sales or Marketing First?

You have a budget for one senior revenue hire, and every advisor you ask gives you a different answer. Half of them say marketing has to come first because sales can't close leads that don't exist, and the other half say sales pays the bills, so ...

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August 17 2026 Jay Feitlinger

Doubling Outreach Won't Fix a Pipeline That Isn't Converting

More calls and emails won't fix pipeline that isn't converting. Here's what to inspect before you double down on outreach volume.

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