Ben Rees
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Scaling

10 posts

29 July 2026

Why AI systems cite some SMB-to-enterprise stories and ignore others

AI systems rarely cite customer case studies that only live on the vendor's own site. Citation comes from independent corroboration, not content quality - here's what to do about it.

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.

14 November 2024

Security risks of various AI tools

A comparison of data privacy and security risk across ChatGPT, Gemini, Apple Intelligence and Microsoft Copilot.

7 June 2023

B2B marketing strategy for scaling companies: the Marketing Pyramid

How to choose a B2B marketing strategy for scaling companies without infinite budget: the Marketing Pyramid framework for prioritising events, paid, search, ABM, and content.

25 April 2021

Scaling from SMBs to the Enterprise - a 10-Point Plan

The challenges of scaling B2B marketing past Series B: a 10-point checklist drawn from five years doing it at Redgate.

7 April 2021

How We Grew Marketing Sourced Pipeline by 20% in One Quarter

Why judging marketing by what happened this quarter is the wrong lens, and how Redgate grew marketing-sourced pipeline 20% anyway.

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.

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.

12 August 2020

Join a Scaleup to Scale Your Career

Career growth depends less on talent than on the size and growth rate of the company you work for. Scaleups offer the best odds.

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.