C2B Insights


Fractional Leadership Andy Smolenski Fractional Leadership Andy Smolenski

Fractional vs. Full-Time: Calculating the Opportunity Cost of Hiring a Director of Product Marketing

In the current economic climate, the most dangerous line item on a B2B technology company's P&L isn't the server costs—it's underutilized headcount.

For the modern SaaS / PaaS CFO, the marketing budget is often a black box of "brand awareness" that is difficult to attribute to revenue. But the specific role of Product Marketing (PMM) presents a unique financial conundrum. It is a critical function for bridging the gap between product and sales, yet the traditional hiring model is increasingly inefficient given the advances in Gen AI.

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Pricing & Monetization Andy Smolenski Pricing & Monetization Andy Smolenski

Fixed-Price vs. Hourly Consulting: Why We Refuse to Bill by the Hour

In the world of consulting, how you price your services isn’t just a business decision — it’s a reflection of how you value your clients’ outcomes, how you structure your delivery, and how you align incentives for success. At C2B Suite, we’ve made a conscious choice about how we engage with our clients: we prefer fixed-price consulting arrangements, and we refuse to bill by the hour. This isn’t a slogan — it’s a philosophy rooted in fairness, accountability, and predictable value.

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Generative AI Strategy Andy Smolenski Generative AI Strategy Andy Smolenski

Prompt Engineering for Product: How to Write Differentiated Epics & Positioning (that don’t suck)

If marketing content is the product that enables revenue, then prompt engineering becomes a core product capability.

Bad prompts create generic content.
Generic content kills differentiation.
And undifferentiated messaging stalls deals.

If your launch materials sound like every other SaaS announcement on LinkedIn, the issue isn’t the model. It’s how you’re instructing it.

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Product Launch & GTM Scott Swope Product Launch & GTM Scott Swope

Lean Product Marketing for Cash-Strapped B2B Tech - PART 1

Let's be brutally honest. Are your product marketing efforts feeling less like a strategic engine and more like a budgetary vortex? You’re pumping in resources, but the output – the tangible, measurable market traction – feels perpetually out of reach. Are you building products in a vacuum, or worse, launching them with a whimper instead of a bang?

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Competitive Intelligence Scott Swope Competitive Intelligence Scott Swope

Why Traditional Sales Enablement Fails: The Case for AI-Generated Battlecards

Visualize a specific folder in your company’s Google Drive. You know the one. It’s titled "Competitive Intel" or "Battlecards 2025."

It is where good sales deals go to die.

Inside that folder are beautifully designed, branded PDFs. They have nice headshots of the competitors’ CEOs, company history, and a three-column matrix of features. Marketing spent six weeks interviewing stakeholders and formatting these documents. They look professional. They look comprehensive.

And they are completely useless.

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Competitive Intelligence Scott Swope Competitive Intelligence Scott Swope

From 'Gut Feel' to Data: A Competitive Intel Makeover - Part 2

We need to stop thinking about "Intelligence" as a report that sits in a PDF. We need to think about it as a live stream of data.

At C2B, we are pioneering a shift from human-speed research to LLM-speed synthesis. This isn't just about scraping websites; it's about using Large Language Models to "read" the internet and extract meaning at a scale no human team could match.

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