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October 15 2026 Jay Feitlinger

Is Your Sales Experience Costing You Deals Your Product Should Win?

Your product checks every box on the buyer's list, your marketing team did its job, and the prospect still signed with a competitor who's missing features they'll need next year. If you lead sales or own revenue at a mid-market company, you've ...

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October 12 2026 Jay Feitlinger

Leads Marked "Not Ready" Rarely Hear From You Again

A prospect fills out a form, takes a first call, and tells your rep the timing isn't right until next year. The rep sets the status to "not ready" and goes back to the deals that can close this quarter. Eighteen months later, you hear that the ...

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October 7 2026 Sarah Shepard

Will AI Replace Your Dashboard? What Leaders Should Know

If your team has a pile of AI tools, a dashboard nobody opens, and a nagging feeling that you're paying for software the work has already outgrown, you're not alone. I hear some version of "is this helping our bottom line or just adding another ...

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October 5 2026 Jay Feitlinger

New Website, Same Pipeline: What a Redesign Can't Fix

Six months after the new website launches, someone pulls the numbers. Traffic is up, the pages finally look like the company you've become, and prospects compliment the site on sales calls. Then the CEO asks how many qualified opportunities the ...

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September 25 2026 Jay Feitlinger

Before You Set the 2027 Marketing Budget, Find the Leak It's Funding

The 2027 marketing budget usually shows up as a spreadsheet with this year's number, a 10% increase, and one new channel somebody wants to try. Then the CEO asks a fair question: which of this year's dollars turned into closed deals? The room gets ...

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