https://carney.wiki/tags/buying-groups/Recent content in Buying Groups onHugo -- gohugo.ioenFri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://carney.wiki/blog/ai-gtm-playbook/Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://carney.wiki/blog/ai-gtm-playbook/The rules of B2B buying are being rewritten. Not incrementally — structurally. Buyers have never moved through a linear tidy funnel owned by sales and marketing; they navigate a buying network made up of internal stakeholders, external influencers, independent research, and increasingly, AI agents that summarize, shortlist, and recommend on their behalf. If your go-to-market (GTM) playbook still targets a single buyer persona or relies on volume outreach, you’re invisible in the very places buyers now start their journeys.https://carney.wiki/blog/aitrust/Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://carney.wiki/blog/aitrust/In an era where B2B buying is increasingly complex, distributed, and AI-assisted, one constant remains: trust is the currency of growth. No longer a “soft” brand attribute, trust now directly accelerates sales velocity and conversion. As Forrester’s Buying Networks: Your Buyers’ New Reality (2025) report highlights, trusted providers gain “shortcuts to consideration,” enabling faster movement through decision cycles and broader endorsement within buyer ecosystems. The New Reality: Buying Networks, Not Buying Groups Forrester’s latest research signals a major shift in how organizations purchase technology.https://carney.wiki/blog/growthai/Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://carney.wiki/blog/growthai/A new pattern is emerging: the teams winning in AI are not the ones copying the old SaaS playbook with fresher branding. They are the ones figuring out where influence, credibility, and trust actually live, then building around that reality instead of around habit. The next generation of marketing leaders in AI will look less like spreadsheet custodians and more like experimenters, operators, and network-builders. They will diagnose first, invent second, and leave a lot of tired template marketing where it belongs.