Ben Rees
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Process & Frameworks

25 posts

9 May 2026

Record Everything

Measuring AI visibility means asking the same questions across platforms every week and recording what comes back. Klara does it automatically.

31 January 2026

Daoism and Marketing Planning

Why the annual marketing plan gathers dust by February, and what the Dao of Complexity gets right about planning for emergence instead.

10 December 2025

How My Approach to Marketing Differs from the Standard Playbook

You need to do something different to be seen

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.

18 April 2025

Stage 1 - getting set up: foundations of my AI-powered chatbot project

The tech stack behind a personal AI assistant built to catalogue and surface my own blog posts, notes and recordings.

22 August 2024

What makes a great company culture?

My personal views on what makes a great company culture

2 July 2024

Updated B2B Marketing Guide

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.

29 December 2022

The marketing flywheel - an alternative to the marketing funnel

14 July 2022

How to make decisions

20 December 2021

Why ROI calculators aren't enough

21 February 2021

How Collaboration Can Grow Revenue

23 September 2019

Focus on Marketing Effectiveness to Scale Up

For a scaling business, chasing efficiency is the wrong goal. Binet and Field's case for effectiveness over ROI optimisation.

21 May 2025

My weekly routine

25 April 2022

Beware roles that advertise long hours

7 September 2020

How to Present to an Exec or Board

2 January 2019

Review: "Subscribed"​ by Tien Tzuo

13 September 2016

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

28 February 2015

Why Doing Nothing Inevitably Leads to Failure

15 February 2015

Why Complex Decisions Inevitably Take Weeks

27 June 2014

Process Hawks and Doves

19 April 2014

The Need to Constantly Change in Marketing

14 September 2013

What I Should Be Doing as a Marketer. But Won’t Be

16 July 2013

When Marketing Isn’t Really Marketing - Google Analytics Multi-Channel Funnels

4 November 2012

Lean Personas - How to Make Personas More Useful