What a booth really costs, what a lead is really worth, and the cheaper ways to work the same show Every year a sales VP walks back from a show floor with a sunburn from the halogen lights and a stack of badge scans, and declares the event “a huge success.” Then the invoices arrive.…
Category Archives: Demand & Distribution
Take the Candidate’s Side in Public
Why the recruiter who tells job seekers the truth ends up with the best inbox in the business Most recruiting firms have a blog. Most of those blogs read like the client’s legal team signed off on every comma. “Five Interview Tips: Arrive Early!” Thanks. Very brave. Continue reading →
Let the Robots Draft, Keep the Humans Signing
Which Marketing Work Should Be Automated, Which Should Not, and the Review Process That Catches the Difference Every marketing team now has the same new coworker. It works nights, doesn’t ask for a raise, and every so often invents a court ruling. The skill that separates good shops from sloppy ones in 2026 is knowing…
Recruit a Hundred People and Ask Them Every Quarter: A Q&A Field Guide to Standing Panels
A one-off survey is a photograph. A standing panel is a time-lapse. Here is how to recruit it, pay it, keep it, and why wave three is when it starts paying you back. Sources are named in the text and linked at the end. 1. Why ask the same people again when I could just…
Turn Labor Market Data Into a Local Client Magnet
a Q&A playbook for building the quarterly metro labor report your competitors are too busy to write Every hiring manager in your city has an opinion about the labor market. Very few have numbers. The federal government collects a staggering amount of workforce data, gives it away for free, and then buries it in spreadsheets…
Out of Town, Out of Mind: Why National Firms Lose Local Work, and How to Win It Back in the Age of AI Search
A Q&A on location pages, market data, local listings, and what AI assistants need to see before they say your name. Picture a business owner in Tucson who needs an employment lawyer. She asks ChatGPT for the best employment lawyers in Tucson and gets three names. Your firm handles hundreds of Arizona employment matters a…
What the Marketing Research Actually Supports
A Q&A guide to the findings that hold up, the ones that fell apart, and how to tell the difference Marketing has plenty of studies. What it lacks is the habit of checking which ones survive a second look. A cute lab result becomes a conference slide, the slide becomes a LinkedIn carousel, and by…