The 3 Eras of B2B Sales: How Selling Has Evolved (2025 Guide)
I joined my family’s staffing firm when I was seventeen, and since then, I’ve witnessed a complete transformation in B2B sales strategy over the decades. From landing clients like Express, Victoria’s Secret, and DHL to navigating modern decision-making challenges, my journey spans three distinct sales eras — each with unique buyer behaviors and selling techniques.
How to perfect the search function of your knowledge base
Your company’s knowledge base is the informational lifeblood of customer self-service and internal efficiency. You could have hundreds of top-quality articles in your knowledge base, but if your knowledge base isn’t searchable? They might as well be invisible. I’ve seen how knowledge base search functionality is the difference between a static, underutilized pile of help…
18 KCS resources to bookmark ASAP
When I worked in HubSpot Support, the real superstars weren’t just the reps who could crush fifty cases a day. The ones I admired most were the team members who built deep expertise and product knowledge, and that’s what knowledge-centered support (KCS) is all about. Knowledge-centered support is a methodology focused on capturing, structuring, sharing,…
How to create a survey in Excel, Word, Google, Facebook, & SurveyMonkey
If you want to learn how to build a survey, the most important thing to know is that an excellent survey respects your time. It should be succinct, ask the right questions, and provide valuable insights. As a respondent, I’m quick to bail if a survey is too long, confusing, and repetitive. If you want…
The SEO-friendly knowledge base — Why making your help pages searchable matters
An SEO knowledge base does everything a typical knowledge base does and more. It supports customers, ranks in Google, brings new traffic to your site, and builds your E-E-A-T. It’s tempting to de-index knowledge bases because they interfere with SEO, complicating keyword maps, impacting rankings, and causing cannibalization. But, done right, they’re a powerful SEO…
12 reasons to build a customer education program
Customers today want more than just products. We’re looking for solutions that work and experiences that are easy. And once we have the product, we want to get good at using it — quickly. This isn’t just a hunch of mine: an impressive 81% of customers try to solve issues themselves before they even think…
12 reasons to build a customer education program
Customers today want more than just products. We’re looking for solutions that work and experiences that are easy. And once we have the product, we want to get good at using it — quickly. This isn’t just a hunch of mine: an impressive 81% of customers try to solve issues themselves before they even think…
I tested FAQ software — here are my favorites
I’ve learned firsthand how essential effective FAQ software is for smooth business operations. I was working with a classic VC-funded startup, Dapper Labs, and we were expanding rapidly. Our product evolved daily, and our excellent support team was overwhelmed. The cause? The same recurring questions: “How do I navigate this feature?” “When is the next…
I tested FAQ software — here are my favorites
I’ve learned firsthand how essential effective FAQ software is for smooth business operations. I was working with a classic VC-funded startup, Dapper Labs, and we were expanding rapidly. Our product evolved daily, and our excellent support team was overwhelmed. The cause? The same recurring questions: “How do I navigate this feature?” “When is the next…
Internal knowledge base: What it is and how to implement it
This might be a strange personality quirk, but I love systems and processes — especially when they’re stored in a well-organized internal knowledge base. I’ve created training documents, where there were previously none, for my replacement when I was leaving several jobs. You can imagine how excited I was to join a company like HubSpot,…
