How Sam Jacobs sold his educational credibility to surveillance vendors, then convinced his own community to implement the technology that spies on them.
by Clark Barron, Jul 03, 2025
The infrastructure giant just made AI crawler blocking default for 20% of the web. LLM attribution vendors are about to learn what "technical impossibility" means.
by Clark Barron, Jul 02, 2025
Marketing can’t perform like a revenue function if you don’t invest in it like one.
by Clark Barron, Jun 17, 2025
unSurvey isn't an AI company at all. It's a side project from an active pricing optimization platform that repackaged ChatGPT integrations as 'proprietary technology'
by Clark Barron, Jun 12, 2025
Inside the quiet dismantling of a profession that lost the plot, the trust, and the buyer.
by Clark Barron, Jun 05, 2025
Marketers aren’t misunderstood—they’re insecure. Stop begging to be seen. Start leading like the function’s survival depends on it.
by Clark Barron, May 12, 2025
Dark social didn’t revolutionize marketing—it gave burned-out marketers a script to survive broken attribution.
by Clark Barron, May 06, 2025
How “kindness” became a tool for silencing critique—and why real empathy means knowing exactly where to aim the fire.
by Clark Barron, May 02, 2025
If you say what you’re really thinking, you’ll get fired. If you don’t, you’ll rot from the inside out. That’s the paradox most marketers live in—and it’s not because they lack backbone. It’s because they’re smart enough to know what happens
by Clark Barron, May 01, 2025
You prayed for a savior. You built temples to your inefficiencies, trusting the next wave of technology to wash away your failures. When the machines arrived, they didn’t tear down your broken systems. They amplified them. They took every rigged metric, every lazy shortcut, every manufactured KPI — and scaled
by Clark Barron, Apr 28, 2025
Marketers aren’t failing. They’re being sacrificed at the altar of a system designed to blame them for numbers they never controlled.
by Clark Barron, Apr 19, 2025
You think the leads suck. The pipeline’s soft. The attribution’s off. Must be marketing’s fault, right? Wrong. Here are the receipts that prove exactly how you got conned.
by Clark Barron, Apr 17, 2025
This isn’t a rant—it’s a teardown of how a $5B slide deck machine hijacks marketing strategy at scale. Tag your analyst. I dare you.
by Clark Barron, Apr 15, 2025
You asked for it. Here it is. → Copy/paste responses → Instant question deflectors → Permission-free firepower I made you a cheat sheet. Use it wisely. "How to respond to leadership when they won't shut up about Gartner."Tired of hearing leadership talk about Gartner? BID_Gartner Flash
by Clark Barron, Apr 14, 2025
On April 10, 2025, Udi Ledergor released a book titled Courageous Marketing: The B2B Marketer's Playbook for Career Success. It was self-published under the imprint "Actionable Ideas Press," a name that exists nowhere in any state registry, has no business filings, no trademark protections, and no
by Clark Barron, Apr 13, 2025
Picture this. A cybersecurity startup is scaling fast. They’ve got funding, a solid product, and a sales team hungry for pipeline. But they’re hitting a wall. The inbound well is running dry, outbound is a grind, and conversion rates are stagnating. Then, a well-dressed rep from 6sense or
by Clark Barron, Apr 13, 2025
HockeyStack wanted attention. They got it. HockeyStack ran one of the most ambitious SaaS giveaways in recent memory—a free Tesla Model Y. But instead of a transparent contest, what followed was a five-month masterclass in deception, misdirection, and outright delay tactics. What started as a buzzy promotional stunt turned
by Clark Barron, Apr 12, 2025
Marketing has always been a battle between two forces: those who want to create value, and those who just want to game the system. Gartner has officially picked a side. Their latest Marketing Predictions 2025 report includes this gem: By 2026, more than one-third of web content will be developed
by Clark Barron, Apr 12, 2025
