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Marketing, Apparently — B2B marketing lessons and career perspective from Kimberly Robbins
Marketing changes. Good judgment doesn't.
I've spent almost three decades building marketing programs, wrangling pipelines, launching products, changing strategies, learning new technology, sitting through meetings that could have been emails, and occasionally discovering that the thing everyone was absolutely certain would work...didn't.
Marketing, Apparently is where I write about what I've learned, what I'm still figuring out, and why experience is more valuable than ever.
Why this exists
Marketing has changed. People haven't changed nearly as much.
Platforms change. Algorithms change. Analytics change. AI is rewiring our jobs. This is reality. And it's exciting.
What has not changed is the need for experience in decision making. Judgment. Curiosity. Empathy. Creativity. Understanding needs and objections. Marketing, Apparently explores the fundamentals, nuances, and joy of marketing along with the good, the bad, and the ugly.
- B2B marketing
- Demand generation
- Content
- Positioning
- AI
- Marketing technology
- Careers
- Leadership
- Job searching
- What actually works
- What supposedly works
- Lessons learned the hard way
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Because sometimes the strategy is really a very educated guess.
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Apparently, there's life outside marketing too.
My world also includes community work, volunteering, a stack of books I keep adding to faster than I read it, family, friends, and a good glass of wine on a Thursday. Those things show up here occasionally, because Marketing, Apparently is written by an actual person rather than a content engine.