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B2B marketing
built to compound.

How I think about strategy, how lifecycle systems work in practice, and a portfolio of creative work across finance, healthcare, and professional services.

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Strategy & Systems

Why systems matter more
than individual campaigns.

Most B2B marketing fails not because of bad creative — but because there's no infrastructure underneath it. Here's how I think about building marketing that compounds over time.

The core distinction

The difference between
a campaign and a system

A campaign produces a spike. A system produces consistent, compounding results. The distinction matters enormously in B2B — where sales cycles are long, buyers research independently, and trust takes time to build. Systems capture and nurture demand at every stage, automatically, without manual intervention for every touchpoint.

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Capture at every entry point Paid, organic, referral, direct — qualified into the same scoring logic regardless of source.
2
Nurture without manual effort Behaviour-triggered sequences keep leads warm across a 90-day+ B2B cycle automatically.
3
Score and route intelligently Sales only sees qualified leads. Marketing owns the unqualified pipeline until it's ready.
4
Measure what matters Pipeline contribution, not impressions. Every dollar of marketing budget connected to revenue outcome.
Content strategy plan — B2B lifecycle
Content Strategy

Full-funnel content plan — B2B lead generation

A structured 90-day content plan designed to map awareness, consideration, and decision-stage content to specific buyer personas. Each asset connects to a nurture trigger, not just a publish date. Built for a professional services firm scaling from 0 to 20,000 leads.

Content mapped to funnel stage and buyer persona
Each piece feeds a Marketo programme trigger
Result: 20K new leads via integrated social funnel
Lead scoring architecture — Marketo
Lead Scoring Architecture

Marketo lead scoring system — HR advisory

Custom lead scoring model built in Marketo using 14 behavioural signals and 6 demographic attributes. Qualified leads route automatically to the correct sales territory. Unqualified leads enter a nurture track. No manual triage, no leads falling through the cracks.

20% improvement in sales conversion rate
Manual data entry eliminated across systems
Sales time refocused onto qualified pipeline only

Why most B2B marketing stalls — and how systems fix it

The three most common failure points in B2B marketing, and the systemic fix for each.

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Leads go cold between marketing and sales

Marketing qualifies interest. Sales expects readiness. No one owns the gap. A properly built nurture system bridges that space with relevant, timed touchpoints — keeping the buyer warm without human effort at every step.

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No visibility on what's actually working

Impressions and open rates are not pipeline. Without proper attribution — tracked phone numbers, UTM parameters, form source tracking — you cannot connect marketing spend to revenue. Systems build this infrastructure before campaigns launch.

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Every campaign requires manual effort to repeat

If you have to rebuild every campaign from scratch, you're losing compound value. A system runs continuously — triggering onboarding sequences, re-engagement flows, and scoring updates automatically, regardless of team capacity.

Email & Lifecycle Marketing

From first touch to
closed deal — automated.

Lifecycle marketing is the infrastructure between awareness and revenue. Here's how a well-built email and nurture system works in practice — and what the results look like.

A lifecycle system isn't a drip campaign. It's a decision engine.

Most email sequences are linear — a fixed series of messages sent regardless of behaviour. A true lifecycle system responds to what the buyer does: which pages they visit, which emails they open, which content they download. Every action updates their score, adjusts their journey, and signals to sales at exactly the right moment.

The result is a system that feels personal to the buyer and requires minimal ongoing effort from your team.

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Lead enters the system
Via form, paid social, referral, or direct — scored immediately on entry.
2
Welcome & qualification sequence
3–5 touch automated sequence. Signals buying intent vs. early research stage.
3
Behaviour-triggered nurture
Content delivered based on actions taken. Score updated with each interaction.
4
Sales alert at threshold
When score hits qualification threshold, sales is alerted with full engagement history.
5
Post-sale onboarding & retention
System continues after close — onboarding sequences and upsell triggers built in.
850
Clients through automated onboarding programmes
15%
Engagement lift from automation vs. manual campaigns
20K+
Qualified leads generated annually via social media funnel
20%
Sales conversion improvement via lead scoring
Work Examples

Strategy-led creative
across three industries.

Finance, healthcare, and professional services. Every piece built inside a campaign system — the right message, to the right persona, at the right funnel stage.

Strategy-led creative — not the other way around

Every piece here was built inside a campaign system. The creative supports the strategy: the right message, to the right persona, at the right funnel stage. Design without strategic context is decoration.

Finance MedTech HR Advisory
B2B marketing strategy
Strategy · B2B Marketing

B2B Marketing Strategy

Senior-led strategy built to connect marketing to pipeline

B2B re-engagement strategy
Strategy · B2B

Re-engagement & Pipeline Recovery

Behaviour-triggered dormant lead reactivation strategy

Client onboarding automation
Lifecycle · Automation

Client Onboarding Automation

Marketo-built onboarding sequence, professional services

Product launch EDM — MedTech
MedTech · EDM

Product Launch EDM

Hand-coded email campaign, Becton Dickinson

MedTech campaign asset
MedTech · Campaign

MedTech Campaign Asset

Product launch materials, Becton Dickinson

Digital campaign assets
Digital · Social

Digital Campaign Assets

Social and digital advertising suite

HTML Email Campaign
Finance · Email

HTML Email Campaign

Hand-coded template, institutional finance

Display advertising
Finance · Display

Display Advertising

Banner ads and digital display suite

Product brochure — MedTech
MedTech · Print

Product Brochure

Becton Dickinson — medical technology

B2B brochure MedTech
MedTech · Print

B2B Brochure

Corporate collateral, Becton Dickinson

Tradeshow banner MedTech
MedTech · Events

Tradeshow Banner

Exhibition materials, scientific conference

Sales presentation MedTech
MedTech · Sales

Sales Presentation

Pitch deck and product launch materials

Marketing collateral MedTech
MedTech · Collateral

Marketing Collateral

Brochures and print materials suite

Campaign graphics
Digital · Campaign

Campaign Graphics

Digital advertising and social suite

360 campaign strategy
Finance · 360° Campaign

Integrated Campaign Strategy

360° campaign execution, Lazard Asset Management — 35% engagement increase

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