In this episode of Demand Gen U, Adam Goyette, Founder of Curdis, joins host Mark Huber, Head of Brand & Product Marketing at Metadata, to explore why traditional B2B marketing approaches have become ineffective as most brands follow identical strategies.

Episode Summary

The episode examines overlooked marketing areas, current advertising trends, and alternative approaches to stand out when every competitor is running the same playbook.

Key Takeaways

1. Small Experiments Reduce Risk

Start small. Try out small experiments before throwing your entire advertising budget at the wall. This approach makes failures less costly while enabling you to scale successful tactics.

2. Know Your Audience

Rather than relying on assumptions, marketers should directly engage with customers through sales calls and conversations to uncover new angles and understand how their audience communicates.

3. Rethink Design and Copy

It’s usually the unpolished stuff that gets noticed and performs the best. Authentic content outperforms polished advertisements, and ad copy should be prioritized—not treated as an afterthought.

How to use this resource in evaluation

Use Adam Goyette Explains Why The B2B Playbook is Broken as a working prompt for your buying committee, not as a standalone takeaway. The useful question is how the idea turns into governed campaign execution: which accounts are included, which contacts are reachable, which channels carry the message, which budget controls apply, and how results are reviewed after launch.

Bring the resource into a demo or internal planning session and ask each owner to inspect a different layer. Demand generation should review the audience and offer logic. RevOps should inspect CRM, marketing automation, and reporting flow. Sales should confirm whether the campaign creates context they can act on. Finance should ask how spend, conversion quality, opportunity creation, and pipeline are connected before budget expands.

Before treating this as complete, compare the recommendation against one current campaign. Check the audience source, channel fit, exclusion logic, approval owner, expected conversion path, and the report your revenue team will use after launch. That keeps the resource tied to an inspectable operating workflow.

  • Audience fit: define the exact account, contact, customer, or intent segment this idea should reach.
  • Campaign controls: confirm approvals, exclusions, budget limits, creative variants, and launch readiness before spend starts.
  • Measurement path: decide which leading indicators matter early and which pipeline outcomes matter before scaling.
  • Next action: turn the concept into one reviewed campaign object, one owner, and one follow-up date.

The strongest walkthrough should make the resource concrete: a campaign plan, visible guardrails, a revenue-review owner, and a reporting path that a revenue team can inspect without relying on native ad-platform summaries alone.