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The 3-Step Framework for GTM Success with Causal AI

Most GTM strategies are built on flawed forecasts and gut instincts, not facts. Causal AI reveals what actually drives revenue, helping CEOs, CROs, CMOs, and CTOs make smarter decisions. This three-step framework helps businesses improve their GTM ROI, and build a scalable, data-driven strategy that works.

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Why Causal AI Is The Answer for Smarter Marketing

As marketing teams plan for 2025, causal AI emerges as the key to smarter B2B strategy, moving beyond predictive analytics to reveal why campaigns succeed. With 56% of companies missing targets in 2024, this technology helps marketing leaders defend investments and optimize GTM decisions with data-driven confidence.

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Five Tips for Your B2B Marketing Strategy

Boost your B2B sales velocity and increase qualified leads by with proven marketing strategies from tech industry veteran Tim Hillison. In this practical guide, the former Visa and Microsoft executive shares five game-changing tactics that drive real revenue growth while cutting marketing costs. Learn how to blend data-driven insights with creative execution to outperform competitors and accelerate your B2B growth.

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How to make the jump from product-market fit to platform-market fit

Platform-Market Fit is not about pushing more products; it’s about creating a scalable solution that integrates various products into a cohesive platform. This transition is essential for companies looking to expand across industries and geographies while maintaining efficiency.

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From problem-market fit to platform-market fit: the 3P’s framework

Discover how GTM Partners’ 3Ps Framework helps B2B companies build and transition from problem-market fit, to product-market fit to platform-market fit.

Learn strategies for scaling startups, and transforming scaleups. This practical maturity model will provide you with actionable strategies and best practices.

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GTM Partners Modern Marketer

One of marketing’s most important missions is creating a consistent, predictable, attributable, pipeline to drive sales. But the demand gen playbooks worked..

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Rethinking fit, growth and go-to-market for the modern startup

The article discusses the evolution of startup strategies, emphasizing the need for modern go-to-market (GTM) models to navigate the dynamic business landscape. It introduces the "3Ps" GTM maturity model, comprising Problem-market fit, Product-market fit, and Platform-market fit, as a framework to align revenue teams and address business life-cycle challenges.

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Maximize Your MarTech in 2024

We began by discussing the greatest challenges in the MarTech sector and analyzing the critical components of a MarTech stack in 2024. Topics included MarTech's impact on businesses, selecting MarTech stacks, data science's role, and overcoming integration challenges.

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Moneyball: B2B Marketing Lessons

Who doesn’t like the underdog?

In this podcast, Tim Hillison, Founder & CMO of Entry Point 1, and Ian Faison, CEO of Caspian Studios, discuss how B2B Marketing is similar to the Academy Award winning movie, Moneyball.

Moneyball is based on a true story about the general manager of the Oakland Athletics trying to assemble a competitive baseball team on a tight budget. This comes after the A’s loss to the Yankees the previous year, in 2001, and as they’re losing their star players. So the GM, Billy Beane, teams up with player analyst and Yale economics grad, Peter Brand, and together they use sabermetrics to evaluate and sign undervalued players.

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Retro’ing the Future: Go-to-Market (GTM) in 2024 and Beyond

Go-to-Market Predictions for 2024

In this webinar, Tim Hillison, Founder & CMO of Entry Point 1, and Derek Osgood, CEO of Ignition, cover different strategies to stay ahead of emerging go-to-markets trends, leveraging technologies to accelerate GTM efficiency and effectiveness, and I share predictions for 2024.

71% of CMOs reporting not having enough budget to successfully execute their growth objectives. The need to do more with less, prioritize right initiatives such as repositioning, increasing the depth of messaging, and forming right partnerships are expected to rise in importance. A shift is expected towards unified revenue teams involving separate teams dealing with the marketing, AE pipeline, and SDR pipeline sectors. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will also play a crucial role in enhancing productivity, with applications stretching from content production to market research. The existence of siloed processes among different teams is expected to diminish, with most firms shifting to a more centralized and unified process. Lastly, testing for new compensation and incentive models to bring teams closer together is predicted to occur before the end of 2024.

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Reinvent your positioning

Headlines from 2023 B2B SaaS companies

Positioning, like the keystone of an archway, bears the weight of your buyers’ future commitments. If poorly executed, you’ll create customer confusion.

When executed well, positioning builds cross-functional consistency.

Why?

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