In this episode of Executive Conversations, Daniel Kube, CEO of servicePath™ sits down with Brian Hartland — veteran B2B enterprise marketer, operator, and advisor — to unpack 40+ years of go-to-market wisdom: from mainframes to AI-native marketing, and why adds-to-pipeline beats vanity “lead” metrics every time. From “facts are the enemy of emotion” to “people buy through their eyes,” Brian shares candid lessons on aligning sales and marketing, influencing the influencers (analysts, peers, reviews), and building a focused, experiment-driven growth engine that scales without the noise.

Key Themes You’ll Discover: The 3 non-negotiables of marketing: brand awareness, qualified interest, and sales effectiveness (pricing, ROIs, references, competitive intel) Why buyers now arrive in the last 15–20% of the journey—and how to win with “Why Now / Why Us” Sales + Marketing = One GTM team: stop counting “leads,” start measuring adds-to-pipeline Influence the influencers: analysts, customer proof, and review ecosystems that shape enterprise decisions Focus to scale: dominate one niche, then expand (bowling-pin strategy done right) Personalize at scale with AI: signals, lookalikes, next-best-action—without sounding generic Org design for complex B2B: the surprising upside of non-commission sales models Career playbook for modern marketers: systems thinking, data fluency, and storycraft 👉 Join the conversation: What’s your #1 GTM bottleneck right now? Drop it in the comments.

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