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Field notes from the agency.

Essays, playbooks, and field notes on building intelligence layers for B2B companies — by the team that ships them.

UpdatedWeekly · Mondays
Authored byImpulse team · 6 contributors
FormatLong-form · 5–13 min reads

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HubSpot

What HubSpot's new sales agents read before they act

Every sales leader we talked to at UNBOUND asked the same question in different words: will the Fall 2026 agents HubSpot announced on stage ...

Remington Begg · Sep 17, 2026
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SEO

Marketing Playbook Becoming Obsolete? A Leader's Guide to Winning in the AI Era

The comfortable, data-drenched world we've known for two decades is giving way to something new, something that feels surprisingly... old. ...

Remington Begg · Jun 10, 2025
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Sales Strategy

Let's Get Real About Your GTM: Powering Through 2025 and Beyond

Alright, it’s the middle of May, and if you’re like me, you’re probably thinking, "Wow, this year is flying!" We're barreling towards that ...

Remington Begg · May 14, 2025
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SEO

The Digital Transformation Your Company May Be Missing: Your B2B Buyer

Few milestones over the last decade spurred digital transformation like the pandemic a few years ago. It certainly compelled businesses to ...

Remington Begg · May 7, 2025
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Sales Strategy

Are You Marketing to Humans or Agents? Preparing Your Website for the Future

Traditional marketing wisdom focuses on appealing to human emotions, pains, and aspirations. We craft compelling narratives, design ...

Remington Begg · Apr 25, 2025
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Sales Strategy

Solution Selling: The Mindset, The Process, The Results [INBOUND Recap]

Selling is often associated with the terms “pushy,” “convincing,” and “all about money.” However, with solution selling, you can add the ...

Remington Begg · Jan 5, 2024
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Sales Strategy

9 Sales Ops Pain Points and How to Overcome Them

Selling is an art. Selling is human. Selling is unpredictable. Yes, and selling can be anything but successful. This might be a familiar ...

Remington Begg · Nov 9, 2023
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Sales Strategy

Sales Sequences Are a Quick Win You Need: The Why, The How & The Human

TL:DR: Sales sequences provide objective automation, so you can analyze strengths and weaknesses in your sales team, strategy, and training ...

Remington Begg · Dec 6, 2022
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Sales Strategy

3 Sales Hub Tools to Improve Your Flow

TL;DR You can book meetings, store and share documents, and save templates through Sales Hub to improve your sales workflow (and your life).

Remington Begg · Oct 25, 2022
FIG. 10 Will the Real Customer Journey Please Stand Up
Sales Strategy

Will the Real Customer Journey Please Stand Up? Please Stand Up 😜

The inbound marketing world is great for identifying revolutionary concepts, giving them a name that becomes the newest buzzword, then ...

Remington Begg · Dec 1, 2020
FIG. 11 Ideal-Buyer-Profiles-Buyer-Personas
Sales Strategy

Ideal Client Profiles VS Buyer Personas

Originally published in 2018. Updated with links and info in 2020. The sad truth is that most companies and sales teams have NO idea who ...

Remington Begg · Jul 2, 2020
FIG. 12 title card for 5 Killer Sales and Marketing Video Strategies
Sales Strategy

5 Killer Sales and Marketing Video Strategies

Do you have a hard time leveraging video for your sales and marketing efforts? If you ask most sales and marketing professionals out there, ...

Remington Begg · May 29, 2020
FIG. 13 how-data-scrubbing-could-direct-your-sales-strategy
Sales Strategy

How Data Scrubbing Could Direct Your Sales Strategy

Data. It’s a critical part of your business.

Remington Begg · Dec 9, 2019
FIG. 14 inbound-sales-strategy-101-hero
Sales Strategy

Inbound Sales Strategy 101

Is your sales team as effective as they could be? Are you looking for ways to make your process better than it historically has been? In ...

Remington Begg · Nov 22, 2019
FIG. 15 how-emotional-selling-impacts-buying-behaviors
Sales Strategy

How Emotional Selling Impacts Buying Behaviors

Want to get people to buy from you? Get to their subconscious. Get to their emotions.

Remington Begg · Oct 4, 2019
FIG. 16 inbound-sales-101-hero
Sales Strategy

Inbound Sales 101

We’ve all heard the mantra that the internet has changed the way we do business. Whether it’s video content to bring prospects to your ...

Remington Begg · Jul 26, 2019
FIG. 17 Sales-Conversation-Tips
Sales Strategy

3 Ways To Have More Effective Sales Conversations

All the leads in the world does not a closed deal make!

Remington Begg · Mar 12, 2018
FIG. 18 Leads-and-Sales-help
Sales Strategy

How to Make Your Website Your Sales Team’s Biggest Tool

If you are reading this, it’s because you have a website and you have a sales team, but they just aren’t working hand-in-hand. Or, you’re ...

Remington Begg · Feb 20, 2018
FIG. 19 Sale-team-training-games
Sales Strategy

5 Inbound Sales Tactics Your Sales Team Could Start Using Today

Hopefully, you have been following my last few articles talking about inbound sales as the clear winner in strategies! If not, check out my ...

Remington Begg · Feb 12, 2018
FIG. 20 Sales-Email-template
Sales Strategy

How to Tell Someone They’re Doing it All Wrong Gracefully: 5 Ways to Personalize Prospect Emails

Picture this: it’s a shiny Monday morning. You jump into your inbox with nothing but hope and excitement for another kickass week! Then IT ...

Remington Begg · Jan 16, 2018
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Marketing Operations

5 Phrases to Remove from Your Smarketing Team's Vocabulary

Incorporating your Sales and Marketing Team into one Smarketing Team is one of the best ways to form a cohesive effort to improve overall ...

Remington Begg · Feb 4, 2016
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Social Media

Inbound Sales: Taking Social Selling Even Further

Recently, we published a blog post about the importance of social selling and how to make sure you’re hitting the mark. Inbound marketing ...

Remington Begg · Feb 2, 2016
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Social Media

How Good are You at Social Selling?

Today’s consumers don’t want to make big purchases by being pushed around by salesmen, they want a pleasant experience with someone they ...

Remington Begg · Jan 21, 2016
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Sales Strategy

7 Reasons You Aren't Hearing Back From Your Leads

The rise of the internet has made huge changes in how people buy the products and services they want. Today, consumers are going through ...

Remington Begg · Jan 8, 2016
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Email Marketing

8 Email Subject Lines to Help You Follow Up with a Dead Lead

Crafting professional emails to your Leads is incredibly important to a Smarketer adhering to the inbound methodology. But what happens ...

Remington Begg · Jan 7, 2016
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Marketing Operations

5 Things You Can Do in January To Meet Your 2016 Sales Goals

Happy New Year! As we close 2015 and welcome 2016, one thing is at the top of salespeople’s minds- a new sales goal for the new year. ...

Remington Begg · Jan 1, 2016
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Sales Strategy

Why Having Your Sales and Marketing Teams Collaborate Is A Great Thing

Rachel Begg · Dec 3, 2015