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Twenty-six playbooks, one per audit dimension
For every dimension our audits measure: what the problem is, what it costs, and the fix written three ways — for a critical score, a partial one and a strong one. Filter by practice, by what you are trying to fix, or by where it sits in the system.
Open the playbooks → The method, in briefHow we think about B2B growth, in eight articles
Sales speed, demand strategy, ad waste, pipeline automation, social selling, guardrailed AI, pipeline measurement and auditing before you automate — the ideas behind our work, written to be useful on their own. The full System, with every framework and benchmark, is open to read.
Read the method →The method, in brief
Sales speed metrics: how fast you respond decides what you win
Speed-to-lead and the four sales speed metrics explained: what the HBR research says about lead response time, how to measure yours, and where it breaks.
Read → Demand StrategyDemand strategy: stages of awareness, the 95-5 rule and market stage
How B2B demand strategy works: Schwartz's stages of awareness, the 95-5 rule, why your market's stage shapes your message, and how teaching sets you apart.
Read → Paid mediaWhere B2B Ad Budgets Leak, and How to Find the Waste
Most B2B ad accounts leak budget in four places: targeting, intent, broken paths and tracking. How to find each leak and point spend at revenue, not leads.
Read → Sales automationSales Pipeline Automation Inside the Stack You Already Own
Before you buy another sales tool, look at what your CRM and inbox can already do. What to automate, what to keep human, and how to decide build vs buy.
Read → Social sellingB2B Social Selling with a Human Voice: The Three Voices
Why generated posts all sound alike, and how customer, company and market voice give your reps something no model can write. Plus enablement that works.
Read → AI automationGuardrailed AI Automation: Bounded Autonomy for Marketing Ops
How to let AI act on your campaigns without a black box: bounded autonomy, guardrails, reversibility, three action tiers and a record of every change it makes.
Read → MeasurementMeasure marketing in pipeline dollars, not leads
How to judge B2B marketing by the pipeline it creates: cost per pipeline dollar, fixing attribution between systems, and optimising on revenue, not activity.
Read → Automation strategyAudit before you automate: find what you are about to multiply
Automation multiplies whatever it lands on. How to find your binding constraint, judge automation readiness and spot strategic risks before you build anything.
Read →Featured guide
Fundamentals
What Is Inbound Lead Generation?
A definition that survives contact with reality — plus why inbound programs leak at the response stage rather than the attraction stage.
Read more → Social SellingHow to Choose a Social Selling Agency
What one actually does differently from a social media agency, five questions to ask, and the AI red flag to watch for.
Read more → Demand GenerationWhat a B2B Demand Generation Agency Should Actually Do
The capture-vs-creation split, real retainer pricing, and five questions that expose whether an agency is accountable to revenue or to a click report.
Read more → Search & IntentClickstream Traffic Optimization for Search
Which behavioural signals you can actually move — and why tracking integrity decides whether any of it works.
Read more →Offering Playbooks
The Sales Process Audit: Find the Leaks Costing You Revenue
The four speed metrics that decide deals, where funnel leaks hide, and why you audit before you automate. The thinking behind our sales process audits.
Read more → Search & IntentThe Google Ads Audit: Find the 10–30% of Budget You're Wasting
Intent mismatches, broad-match leaks, tracking gaps and the 95-5 rule. The thinking behind our demand and ads audits.
Read more → Sales AutomationSales Pipeline Automation Without a New Platform
Speed-to-lead, follow-up, CRM hygiene and forecasting — inside the stack you already run. The thinking behind our pipeline automation.
Read more → Social SellingB2B Social Selling: Why the Human Voice Wins in AI-Saturated Feeds
Three voices AI can't synthesize, and enablement that turns content into pipeline. The thinking behind our social selling work.
Read more → AutomationWhat an AI Marketing Automation Agency Actually Does
The work behind the label — AI wired into your existing stack, guardrails first, and a system you own when we leave. The thinking behind Campaign Automation.
Read more →Workflow Guides
B2B Marketing Automation Workflows: Launch Faster, Scale What Works
Launch pipelines, continuous optimization and scale triggers — campaigns on rails, optimized on revenue signals.
Read more → Lead ManagementThe Lead Management Workflow: Capture, Qualify, Route, Follow Up
Every lead worked to an outcome — scoring from closed-won data, routing in minutes, follow-up that never forgets.
Read more → Revenue DataRevenue Data Workflows: Attribution Your Team Actually Trusts
Fix the plumbing, thread the attribution, and rank spend by cost-per-pipeline-dollar.
Read more → TargetingICP Targeting and Intent Signals: A Content Targeting Workflow
Define the ICP from evidence, layer intent signals, and brief content from real buyer language.
Read more → Sales OperationsSales Operations Workflows: Kill the Manual Work
CRM hygiene, pre-compiled forecasts and right-time triggers — reps sell while systems administrate.
Read more →Demand Generation
Revolutionizing B2B SaaS Demand Generation
A data-driven, AI-powered blueprint for scaling SaaS — building a seamless buying experience powered by data and cutting-edge AI.
Read more → TargetingPrecision Targeting: The Shortcut to Skyrocketing B2B Sales
Success boils down to hitting the right target. How precision targeting cuts through the noise and attracts high-quality leads.
Read more → FunnelsMastering the Art of Marketing Funnels
A comprehensive guide to building effective B2B campaigns — from first touch to closed revenue and beyond.
Read more →Revenue Operations
Lead Management: Structuring for Success in Revenue Operations
Every interaction with a prospect is a data point. How to orchestrate a seamless, data-driven ecosystem that fuels sustainable revenue growth.
Read more → RevOpsLead Generation & Revenue Growth: Key Planning Priorities
How RevOps teams align marketing, sales and customer success — managing demand generation, nurturing and pipeline efficiency.
Read more → Integration GuideIntegrating CallRail with Salesforce
A hands-on guide to connecting call tracking to your CRM — so every conversation shows up in your revenue data.
Read more →Search & Intent
Click Stream Data — The Hidden Link Between SEO and SEM
The Google clickstream leak reveals how clicks are becoming the deciding factor in visibility — whether paid or organic.
Read more → Intent DataLeveraging Customer Intent Technology
A guide to enhancing customer engagement through intent signals — reaching buyers when they're actually in-market.
Read more → VideoMarketing in a Mobile World
Dave's talk on finding and targeting customers where they already spend their time.
Watch →Offerings
Sales Process Audit
Audit your sales team's speed metrics against best-in-class.
See the offering →Demand & Ads Audit
Find where demand and ad budget leak across SEO and Google Ads.
See the offering →Sales Pipeline Automation
Put your pipeline on autopilot inside your existing stack.
See the offering →Social Selling
Human-first social content and selling enablement.
See the offering →Web Development
Fast, hand-built websites structured for search and wired for lead capture — for B2B companies, agencies and consultants.
Web · SEO See the offering →Ad & Creative Development
Search, social and display ads, landing pages and testing plans built around how your buyers decide.
Ads · Creative See the offering →Campaign Automation
AI campaign optimization on your existing ad stack.
Explore Campaign Automation →I think that we have been given unprecedented power to play in a world that largely works the same. Anyone complaining should stop looking backwards and start dreaming.
Dave BussellFounder · Click Shift
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