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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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FIG. 01 Remington Begg, Impulse Creative CEO, at a HubSpot strategy whiteboard
SEO

Do You Have a HubSpot Setup or a HubSpot Strategy? Here's How to Tell

Most companies using HubSpot have a setup. A working one, even. Emails go out, deals get logged, and the dashboard shows activity. But ...

Remington Begg · Apr 9, 2026
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SEO

Why Your B2B Website Redesign Needs More Than a Visual Refresh in the Age of AI

Before a human buyer ever visits your website, an AI agent has likely already scanned it, judged it, and decided whether you make the cut. ...

Remington Begg · Mar 30, 2026
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SEO

The Three Marketing Problems Nobody Wants to Admit They Have

Why Your Website Traffic Is Up, Your Conversions Are Down, and Your Content Strategy Isn't Working Here's an uncomfortable truth: most ...

Remington Begg · Jan 24, 2026
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Website Design

AEO-Ready Website: Why Business Leaders Must Re-Architect Their Digital Presence Now for the AI Era

Information discovery is undergoing a fundamental and rapid transformation. For business leaders and marketing managers, the "browser wars" ...

Remington Begg · Oct 28, 2025
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SEO

ChatGPT Agent & Perplexity Comet Have Arrived: Why a 36% AI-Readiness Gap Should Get Your Attention.

For years, the playbook for a successful website was clear. First, we optimized for human connection, building digital brochures that told ...

Remington Begg · Jul 18, 2025
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Website Design

Introducing the CLEAR Framework - The New Dual-Audience Dilemma: AI Agent + Humans

For decades, sales and marketing teams relied on frameworks like BANT (Budget, Authority, Need, Timeline) to qualify leads. But their ...

Remington Begg · Jun 24, 2025
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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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Blogging

Beyond the Screen: Why Our Marketing Must Diversify (Now) in the AI Era

The marketing landscape is undergoing an undeniable transformation, driven by forces that demand an urgent diversification of our ...

Remington Begg · Jun 3, 2025
FIG. 09 stacked website wireframe
Website Design

Rethink Your Website: Architecting Your AI-Enabled, Customer-First Content, Structure, & Strategy

The way our customers discover and interact with businesses is undergoing a seismic shift, and frankly, adapting is no longer optional—it's ...

Remington Begg · May 15, 2025
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Website Design

WCAG and ADA Website Compliance: What You Need To Know

As a business owner, you’ve probably heard of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance. Your company may even be ADA-compliant at ...

Remington Begg · Dec 14, 2023
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Website Design

What is Growth-Driven Design (The Best Website Redesign Method)

TL;DR: A growth-driven design approach to your website cuts down on time, cost, and risk by focusing on tangible strategy, quick wins, and ...

Remington Begg · May 20, 2020
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Mobile Design

8 Ways to Use Mobile UX Design to Improve the User Experience

Web designers typically design for desktop viewers when creating website layouts. But, while there’s no doubt that a sleek landscape layout ...

Remington Begg · May 12, 2020
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Website Design

How the Right CMS Frees Up Developers to do the Work They Love

Developers: Do you want to spend time updating your company’s website? Color changes, grammar edits or swapping out images? Or would you ...

Remington Begg · May 6, 2020
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Website Design

Why IT Managers are Embracing the HubSpot CMS Hub

Marketers who don’t understand CDNs, SSL certificates or proxy servers make an IT manager’s life difficult. For a business whose IT ...

Remington Begg · Apr 27, 2020
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Website Design

How to Start a Website Redesign

If you’re considering a redesign of your company’s website, you may have any number of reasons. We’ve heard them all.

Remington Begg · Apr 1, 2020
FIG. 16 If Website Development is in Your 2020 Business Plan, Read This First hero image
Website Design

If Website Development is in Your Business Plan, Read This First

Whether it’s only a year old or it’s from 10 years ago, when your website no longer impresses you, it’s hard to deal with it.

Remington Begg · Mar 24, 2020
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Website Design

How a New Website Can Drive Revenue for Your Business

We live online. From “Hey Alexa” to hitting Google for every conversational question to ordering groceries online for delivery, our digital ...

Remington Begg · Jan 14, 2020
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Website Design

15 Signs Your Website Redesign is Doomed from the Start

Before you set your sites on slaying the competition with your amazing website redesign, you may want to consider a few things.

Remington Begg · Jan 6, 2020
FIG. 19 how-to-start-a-membership-site-that-drives-real-value-for-your-business
Website Design

Start a Membership Site to Drive Relationships, Revenue, Results

What type of impact would consistent access to your customers minds, feedback, and suggestions have on your business? What if we told you ...

Remington Begg · Nov 18, 2019
FIG. 20 why-you-need-to-utilize-the-hubspot-cms-for-clear-vision-marketing-hero
Website Design

Why You Need to Utilize the HubSpot CMS for Clear Vision Marketing

Websites are critical to a modern business growth plan.

Remington Begg · Nov 15, 2019
FIG. 21 website-optimization-tips-for-quick-business-growth
SEO

8 Website Optimization Tips for Quick Business Growth

Whether you’re optimizing your website for local search or trying to increase your national ranking, improving your SEO can seem like a ...

Remington Begg · Oct 25, 2019
FIG. 22 6-ways-to-tell-if-your-website-is-healthy-or-terminal
Website Design

6 Ways to Tell if Your Website is Healthy or Terminal

Go ahead and ask yourself: How does my website perform for my business? Does my website actually generate revenue? Is my website drain on ...

Remington Begg · Oct 7, 2019
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Website Design

13 Team Pages That Inspire Us

People do business with people they get to know, like and trust.

Remington Begg · Sep 30, 2019
FIG. 24 website-design-process-wireframes
HubSpot

What's Your CMS of Choice? WordPress vs Squarespace vs HubSpot

Your content management system, or CMS, is the engine that runs your content marketing machine. At the heart of your strategy should be the ...

Remington Begg · Sep 6, 2019
FIG. 25 websiteshelflife-social-featured
Website Design

Yes, Your Website Design Has a Shelf Life

Chances are if you've recently gone through the website design process you're hoping that you won't ever have to do it again. Maybe you ...

Remington Begg · Aug 12, 2019
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Website Design

Before You Accept a Website Design Price Think of This...

Kelsey needed a new website. At least, that’s what she thought after reading an article on websites, revenue, design, and the modern ...

Remington Begg · Aug 9, 2019
FIG. 27 how-to-use-smart-content-to-decrease-your-website-bounce-rate-hero
Website Design

How to Use Smart Content to Decrease Your Website Bounce Rate

We know that a bounce rate measures the percentage of visitors that leave your website after viewing only one page on your site. In other ...

Remington Begg · Jul 31, 2019