Ben Rees
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Brand & Positioning

25 posts

6 June 2026

What a 2019 NLP paper tells us about getting recalled by AI

What a 2019 BERT paper by Petroni et al. reveals about how AI models store and recall facts - and why most brand content is optimised for the wrong thing.

23 May 2026

Most B2B marketers are optimising for the wrong audience

18 December 2025

AI Visibility Is a Layered Problem

Before a brand can appear in an AI answer, it must first be legible to the system. A six-layer model for what that actually requires.

10 December 2025

How My Approach to Marketing Differs from the Standard Playbook

You need to do something different to be seen

13 November 2025

AEO Visibility Decays Faster Than SEO

Generative search engines regenerate answers dynamically, so AI visibility decays far faster than SEO rankings ever did. Here's a framework for monitoring it.

11 September 2025

Brand is how you impact GEO

Brand impact has always been hard to measure. Generative engines, which have to synthesise a point of view, finally make it visible.

8 September 2025

Why GEO Matters More Than SEO: Shaping What AI Says About You

Generative engines produce answers, not link lists. If your brand isn't embedded in those answers, you're invisible regardless of your SEO.

8 June 2025

The Value of Positioning Statements for an Evolving Product

21 May 2024

Slaying a few marketing myths

30 June 2023

Balance and Flow

31 May 2023

B2B marketing help

19 August 2019

Why HR is the Most Important Department in your Business

Not sales, not marketing, not engineering. The department with the broadest impact on a company's success is HR, done properly.

2 January 2019

Review: "Subscribed"​ by Tien Tzuo

7 May 2018

Brand Amplifiers

8 April 2018

To learn about the "Buyer Process" try buying something

7 April 2016

If a Brewery Can Innovate, So Can You

30 March 2016

Your People Are Your Customer Experience

13 August 2014

Guerilla Marketing for Startups - An Example

4 August 2014

Why Measuring Marketing ROI is Like Trying to Measure Employee ROI - Impossible!

19 April 2014

The Need to Constantly Change in Marketing

1 February 2014

Keeping an Eye on The Competition

21 June 2013

SaaS Product Management, Lovefilm and Getting Stale

24 April 2013

Why Product Managers Often Aren’t Great at Marketing

9 February 2013

Book Review: Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout

15 December 2012

Product Management and iTunes 11