I recently came across this post from Megan at Refine Labs. As a brand-first marketer, it got me excited.
We’re finally seeing more and more big names wake up to what’s been obvious, but underestimated all along: brand isn’t just “nice to have”–it’s the lever. The differentiator that makes the rest of your go-to-market work better.
Content marketing education is often saturated with surface-level advice and theoretical frameworks that rarely produce meaningful results. Not these.
We’ve ranked the 10 best content marketing courses and content strategy courses for intermediate to advanced marketers based on:
Most B2B enterprises waste thousands on content that never ranks, converts, or builds authority. You hire cheap writers, churn out mediocre blog posts, and wonder why results never come. The ROI isn’t there because your approach is fundamentally broken.
Generic blog posts don’t work anymore. Period. Most B2B content fails because it’s just text on a page. While your competitors waste resources churning out 2,000-word articles nobody reads, market leaders are creating sustainable competitive advantages through design, video, and user experience that drive measurable SEO results.
Most B2B companies waste time on link-building tactics that don’t work. Link building isn’t optional for B2B companies that want organic growth. It’s the backbone of sustainable SEO. Yet according to Backlinko, pages ranking #1 in Google have 3.8x more backlinks than positions #2-#10, while only 27% of B2B companies have a documented link-building strategy.
Growth doesn’t happen by accident; it’s engineered. And the best growth engines? They don’t start with tools or tactics. They start with the right growth team structure. Without the right structure, leadership, and accountability, your growth efforts stall before they ever get traction.
At the center of that structure is the growth team: a cross-functional group that brings together marketing, product, data, and engineering to run rapid experiments and accelerate scalable, sustainable growth.
This guide breaks down three growth team models, looking at where they work and where they fail, and provides a six-step process on how to build a growth team designed to move fast, learn fast, and drive business impact.
Budgets are shrinking. Targets aren’t. And the gap between the two is being quietly normalized.
This isn’t a performance issue, a talent issue, or a creativity issue. It’s a resourcing problem, and pretending otherwise has become convenient.
Marketing is flooded with empty talk about “more leads, more MQLs.” Most of it is smoke and mirrors, distracting B2B marketers from the only metric that matters: revenue.
Demand generation isn’t about chasing volume for its own sake; it wastes time, drains budgets, and leaves pipelines empty. It’s about building a predictable, sustainable revenue engine that drives real sales growth. And if your current strategy isn’t consistently achieving this, it’s not working, and it’s time to level up.
So, if you’re tired of launching campaigns that get thousands of clicks but zero qualified meetings, this list is for you.
These are the top demand generation courses—no fluff, no recycled marketing 101. Just sharp, actionable training built for marketers who are serious about results.
Earlier this week, Exit Five dropped a kickass B2B Marketing Salary Benchmark Report—a data-heavy and thorough look at what B2B marketers earn across different roles, regions, and functions.
And it’s seriously worth the read.
While that landed, I went deep into the other side of the equation–what the market wants. I analyzed dozens of open senior SaaS marketing roles at companies people dream about working for, to map the in-demand skills by vertical.
These insights shape course planning and content strategy and pair perfectly with Exit Five‘s salary data to help answer two burning questions about B2B marketing roles:
What skill set gives you the most negotiating power?
What skills are most likely to land interviews (or promotions) right now?
Marketers love to talk about growth, but the terms used often blur together. Experimentation, optimization, A/B testing—they sound like variations of the same thing.
They’re not.
Sure, each practice promises pipeline improvement and leans on similar tools and metrics. But, when you treat optimization as experimentation, you risk playing too small.
This isn’t just semantic nitpicking. Using the wrong approach at the wrong time leads to invalid data, wasted effort, and missed growth opportunities.