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An image of a woman sitting at the beach at sunrise holding her hands up. The image is to represent the beauty of being human and not to forget the human side of marketing decisions and planning.
Marketing Articles  ·  Jan 29, 2026

Never Lose Sight of the Human Side of Marketing

Modern marketing is surrounded by systems. Algorithms decide who sees what. Platforms optimize delivery in real time. AI tools generate summaries, copy,…

Alex Benavides
A colorful image of a drop of water landing in a body of water creating ripples to represent how customer experience improvements create ripples even with small inputs.
Marketing Articles  ·  Jan 22, 2026

Customer Experience Is a Marketing Growth Channel (Especially If No One Owns It)

Customer experience is talked about constantly, yet rarely treated like a growth lever. It lives in mission statements, brand decks, and quarterly…

Daniel Benavides
An image of a person with an exaggerated bullhorn to represent the email blasts as just noise versus customer journeys as informed ways to build trust and grow sales.
Marketing Articles  ·  Jan 13, 2026

Most Businesses Don’t Have Customer Journeys. They Have Complicated Email Blasts.

Most businesses send email. It’s familiar, relatively inexpensive, and easy to activate when something needs attention. Promotions, announcements, newsletters, reminders—email becomes the…

Daniel Benavides
The photo of a crumpled receipt to represent the fact that B2B sales are not as easy to refund as normal consumer purchases.
Marketing Articles  ·  Dec 11, 2025

You Can’t Just Refund Big B2B Purchases.

In consumer markets, a bad decision can often be undone. A product gets returned. A subscription is canceled. A charge is refunded…

Alex Benavides
Images of connected but different colored game pieces to represent the idea of different marketing customer segments.
Marketing Articles  ·  Jul 31, 2025

What Happens When Every Person is a Customer?

Most companies define “customer” more narrowly than they could. It’s the person who signs the contract. The homeowner who books the service.…

Alex Benavides

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