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Content decay in 2026: how to audit, refresh, or retire aging posts before they drag your rankings and AI citations down
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Content decay in 2026: how to audit, refresh, or retire aging posts before they drag your rankings and AI citations down

Most sites let old posts quietly rot instead of auditing them. The three signals that flag a decaying page, the quarterly pull that finds them, and the refresh-consolidate-retire decision tree we run against our own archive.

AUG 15, 2026·Read essay →
Content distribution strategy: how to get your content seen in 2026CONTENT

Content distribution strategy: how to get your content seen in 2026

Most content teams are over-indexed on creation and under-indexed on distribution. In 2026 there are four distribution channels — owned, earned, paid, and AI engines — and teams that build for all four see 3–4x the content-to-pipeline conversion of teams that only build for three.

JUL 18, 2026
B2B email marketing in 2026: the deliverability-first playbookEMAIL

B2B email marketing in 2026: the deliverability-first playbook

Email still delivers ~$36 for every $1 spent — if it reaches the inbox. Here's the 2026 B2B playbook: the authentication floor you can't skip, the four sequences that drive revenue, and how to measure pipeline influence instead of open rates.

JUN 18, 2026
B2B podcast marketing: the complete 2026 guide to turning audio into pipelineB2B

B2B podcast marketing: the complete 2026 guide to turning audio into pipeline

83% of senior executives listen to at least one podcast weekly. The best B2B marketing teams use branded podcasts as demand generation and ABM — not a media play. Here's the complete playbook: format, guest strategy, pipeline attribution, and what actually converts.

JUL 28, 2026
B2B social proof strategy: the system that converts skeptical buyersB2B

B2B social proof strategy: the system that converts skeptical buyers

78% of enterprise buyers are influenced by case studies and customer logos before deciding. Here's the full system: which formats convert at each funnel stage, how to collect them at scale, where to place them, and the GEO angle most companies miss entirely.

JUL 23, 2026
Thought leadership strategy for B2B: how to build authority that generates pipelineB2B

Thought leadership strategy for B2B: how to build authority that generates pipeline

97% of B2B marketers say thought leadership is critical to full-funnel success — but most of what companies publish isn't thought leadership. Here's the playbook: original research, expert content, distribution, and the metrics that tie authority to pipeline.

JUL 14, 2026
B2B demand generation in 2026: the complete playbookB2B

B2B demand generation in 2026: the complete playbook

Demand generation is not lead generation. It's the practice of creating the conditions for qualified buyers to find you, believe you, and raise their hands — before they ever talk to Sales. Here's the channel mix, the content architecture, and the measurement model that survives a CFO review.

JUL 11, 2026
Account-based marketing (ABM) for B2B in 2026: the complete playbookPLAYBOOK

Account-based marketing (ABM) for B2B in 2026: the complete playbook

ABM is not a campaign type — it's a go-to-market motion that replaces spray-and-pray with surgical precision. Here's the full playbook: account selection, tier logic, content, channels, and measurement.

JUL 9, 2026
Building an AI content engine that ranks AND gets citedAI-AGENTS

Building an AI content engine that ranks AND gets cited

Most AI content workflows produce fluent, forgettable filler that ranks for nothing. This is the engine we actually run: a human-gated pipeline of research, drafting, and editing agents that produces content dense and original enough to rank in Google and get cited by AI.

MAY 30, 2026
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