Ben Rees
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Content Strategy

21 posts

21 January 2026

Whitepaper on How to Optimise for AEO and GEO

Results from a two-month experiment testing what actually affects AI answers across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google.

31 October 2025

Selling to the Boss

Selling to senior decision makers takes far longer and is far harder to measure than selling to end users. A five-step model for the process.

22 October 2025

Building a Private Chatbot

Built Mini Me: a private AI trained on years of my own strategy notes and writing, so I can talk to everything I've ever thought.

4 October 2025

Spreadsheet for measuring and tracking how well you are doing in AI searches

A spreadsheet for manually tracking how your content performs across SEO, AEO and GEO, query by query, platform by platform.

22 August 2025

Focus on quality - lessons from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

19 June 2025

Rewriting Content Strategy with LLMs and Pinecone

Building a retrieval system with LLMs and Pinecone exposed how badly most B2B content, including mine, is structured for machines.

21 April 2025

Stage 3 - going beyond keyword search

Why embedding-based retrieval beats keyword search for natural language queries, with an implementation using OpenAI, Pinecone and Chroma.

20 April 2025

Stage 2 – making sense of the chaos

How a batch script and a continuous scanner pulled years of decks, notes and blog posts into one searchable system.

3 November 2024

Making decisions in a Bayesian world

Most marketing decisions can't be A/B tested. Bayesian logic, combining prior knowledge with whatever data you do have, fills the gap.

2 July 2024

Updated B2B Marketing Guide

21 May 2024

Slaying a few marketing myths

18 May 2023

How to add ChatGPT to your own website

The stages of integrating ChatGPT into your own website, from a generic chatbot through to an FAQ built from your own content.

2 February 2023

The Marketing Flywheel

22 February 2019

Five Myths About The Marketing Revenue Engine

Five widely-held beliefs about measuring marketing performance that didn't survive contact with the real world at Redgate.

27 October 2024

Everything So Far

19 July 2018

Building a MarTech Stack at a Small Organisation

16 June 2018

Measuring Outbound vs. "Always-on" Marketing Performance

13 September 2016

There are Three Types of Marketing – Inbound, Outbound and… Plain Rude

16 April 2016

Write Content That People Actually Want to Read

3 January 2014

Dissecting Thought-Leadership

23 January 2013

Is it the Content or the Author that Matters for a Blog?