Clark Barron

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

Marketers aren’t failing. They’re being sacrificed at the altar of a system designed to blame them for numbers they never controlled.

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.

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.

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

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