Building a Powerhouse Marketing Team: Avoiding Fires and Mis-hires

Marketing teams are evolving rapidly. They're getting smaller, but they're also becoming significantly more strategic and impactful. In this episode, Dan talks with Amanda McGrath about the fundamental shifts happening in how businesses should think about building their marketing teams.We explore the critical importance of investing in senior strategic talent and how AI is enabling teams to achieve more. Amanda shares insights from her conversations with new marketers who've joined companies in their first 90 days, revealing common hiring mistakes and the difference between businesses that get marketing team building right versus those that don't.Click here to subscribe to the new Demand Decoded YouTube channel. Click here to see how we can help you drive demand for your business.

We're podcasting live from HubSpot's INBOUND conference to share what we've learned about the future of B2B marketing. With AI fundamentally changing how buyers research and discover solutions, we explore why face-to-face events have become more crucial than ever for cutting through the noise.We dive into HubSpot's new Loop marketing methodology - their evolved approach to inbound marketing for the AI era. As traditional traffic sources disappear and buyers conduct research in the dark, we discuss why website conversion optimisation has never been more critical and how successful marketers are adapting their content strategies when "they ask, AI answers" becomes the new reality.Click here to subscribe to the new Demand Decoded YouTube channel. Click here to see how we can help you drive demand for your business.

Most CMOs struggle with one critical relationship that can make or break their success: the CFO. In this episode, Dan and Josh reveal why financial acumen is non-negotiable for marketing leaders and share the three financial fundamentals every CMO must master to build genuine partnerships with finance teams. From understanding cash flow timing to translating marketing metrics into financial outcomes, we explore practical strategies that transform adversarial relationships into collaborative business partnerships. Discover why transparency and intellectual honesty are essential, how to speak the CFO's language, and the embedded analyst approach that's revolutionising CMO-CFO collaboration at mid-market companies. Click here to subscribe to the new Demand Decoded YouTube channel. Click here to see how we can help you drive demand for your business.

In this solo episode, Dan dives into research analysing 1,800+ real ChatGPT prompts that reveal how buyers truly search today. Discover why prompts are 5-20 times longer than Google searches, how 75% of users now issue commands instead of asking questions, and why your current content strategy is likely invisible to AI search.You'll learn the shift from "how do I fix this?" to "fix this for me", why hyper-localised commercial queries are becoming the norm, and practical steps to optimise your content for the new search reality, including schema implementation and persona-driven content creation that actually gets referenced by AI tools.Read the full research study: https://metehan.ai/blog/i-analyzed-1827-real-user-prompts-from-chatgpt-here-what-ive-found-agentic-search/Click here to subscribe to the new Demand Decoded YouTube channel. Click here to see how we can help you drive demand for your business.

Attribution has always been a battleground between sales and marketing teams, but with today's complex buyer journeys, the problem is worse than ever. Traditional attribution models promise clarity but fail to capture the messy reality of how buyers actually make decisions, leading to finger-pointing, misaligned goals, and wasted budgets.In this episode, Dan and Josh dive into why attribution wars persist, explore the fundamental flaws in current attribution approaches, and share practical alternatives like self-reported attribution and AI-powered analysis. They reveal how to end the attribution politics by aligning teams around shared goals, unified systems, and what executives actually care about: revenue efficiency.Click here to subscribe to the new Demand Decoded YouTube channel. Click here to see how we can help you drive demand for your business.

Your website traffic is about to get more qualified but less frequent thanks to AI and zero-click searches. That makes every visitor more valuable, and every conversion opportunity you're missing more costly.In this episode, we dive into the biggest B2B website mistakes that are killing your lead generation. From unclear homepage messaging and weak calls-to-action to broken handoff processes, we cover the practical changes that can transform your website from a digital brochure into a pipeline-generating machine.We also tackle why B2B conversion rate optimisation is completely different from e-commerce CRO, and share real data on how simple changes can double your meeting conversion rates overnight.Click here to subscribe to the new Demand Decoded YouTube channel. Click here to see how we can help you drive demand for your business.

In this episode, we explore how AI is fundamentally reshaping search behaviour and what this means for B2B marketers.We break down which parts of SEO still work, reveal new opportunities for getting cited in AI-powered searches, and explain why building brand awareness has become more critical than ever. Plus, we share practical strategies for creating content that AI engines actually reference in commercial queries.Click here to subscribe to the new Demand Decoded YouTube channel. Click here to see how we can help you drive demand for your business.

LinkedIn ads are notoriously expensive, yet many B2B marketers walk away convinced they simply don't work. In this solo episode, Dan unpacks the real reasons LinkedIn campaigns fail and provides actionable fixes you can implement immediately.From targeting audiences that will never buy from you to creating ads that say everything whilst meaning nothing, Dan reveals the six critical mistakes that are burning your budget. He also shares real campaign examples from Blend's own LinkedIn ads, showing what works and what doesn't.Click here to subscribe to the new Demand Decoded YouTube channel. Click here to see how we can help you drive demand for your business.

While many marketers focus on traffic and lead volume, private equity firms are looking at entirely different metrics. What they're really interested in is marketing that drives EBITDA growth, predictable revenue generation, and ultimately maximises exit value. In this episode, Josh, CEO of Blend Americas, breaks down the PE investment thesis, revealing exactly what investors look for in marketing performance. We explore the financial metrics that matter, how to build repeatable growth engines, and common pitfalls that get marketing teams replaced. Click here to subscribe to the new Demand Decoded YouTube channel. Click here to see how we can help you drive demand for your business.

In this episode, Dan speaks with Josh Bouk, Blend's US CEO, about surviving your first board meeting as a CMO. Drawing from 17 years of boardroom experience, Josh reveals the critical mistakes that cause marketing leaders to lose credibility and shares practical strategies for success.Learn how to translate marketing metrics into business outcomes that investors actually care about, discover the key financial metrics every CMO must understand, and find out how to structure your presentation to demonstrate command of your market, business, and metrics in just 10 minutes.Click here to subscribe to the new Demand Decoded YouTube channel. Click here to see how we can help you drive demand for your business.