This Is Strategic Marketing

Data should guide better decisions, but sometimes, it does the opposite. When teams rely on the wrong metrics, misinterpret patterns, or measure what's easy instead of what matters, data can create a false sense of certainty. In this episode of This Is Strategic Marketing, Pamela Muldoon explores how data can quietly mislead marketing teams and the smarter next step to turn information into true insight. 

In marketing, 'urgent' can feel unavoidable - a last-minute request, a sudden crisis, a deadline that jumps to the front of the queue. But constant urgency doesn't just disrupt schedules; it breaks workflows, erodes quality, and burns out teams. In this episode of This Is Strategic Marketing, Pamela Muldoon shares why urgent work can derail efficiency and the smarter next step to protect your team's processes. 

Too many marketing strategies never make it past the slide deck. They look polished in presentations but fail to influence daily decisions, campaigns, or content. In this episode of "This is Strategic Marketing", Pamela Muldoon explains why strategies stall in PowerPoint and shares a smarter next step to bring them off the slides and into action. 

Most marketing teams sprint to launch day, celebrate, and then quickly move on to the next thing. But the real work of marketing begins after launch, when feedback, adoption, and engagement reveal whether the effort actually delivers. In this episode of This Is Strategic Marketing, Pamela Muldoon shares why post-launch is the most overlooked stage in marketing and the smarter next step to close the gap. 

In B2B, your buyer rarely makes decisions alone. Finance, IT, operations, and procurement all have a seat at the table. In this episode of This Is Strategic Marketing, Pamela Muldoon shares the smarter next step to move beyond single personas and start engaging the full buying center. 

Bigger tech stacks don't always mean better results. When tools pile up without clear workflows, marketing teams spend more time updating platforms than doing the work that matters. In this episode of This is Strategic Marketing, Pamela Muldoon shares the smarter next step to streamline your tools and let process drive efficiency. 

The loan marketing hero looks admirable on the surface, but in reality, it creates burnout, bottlenecks, and dependency. In this episode of This is Strategic Marketing, Pamela Muldoon shares the smarter next step to shift from being the hero to building systems that make the whole team stronger. 

Too many campaigns treat launch day as the finish line, when it's really just the beginning. Without clear success measures, teams celebrate activity but miss the impact. In this episode of This is Strategic Marketing, Pamela Muldoon shares the smarter next step to give every campaign a scoreboard and align marketing with real business outcomes. 

Most marketing teams have personas, but too often they sit unused, buried in files, hidden in slide decks, or forgotten in project folders. When that happens, campaigns are built on assumptions instead of insights. In this episode of This Is Strategic Marketing, Pamela Muldoon shares the smarter next step to bring personas off the shelf and back into the workflow where they can actually guide decisions. 

Every marketing team has one: the hidden bottleneck that slows everything down. It's the step in the workflow disguised as "quality control," but actually stalls momentum and drains creativity. In this episode of This is Strategic Marketing, Pamela Muldoon shares the smarter next step to move past bottlenecks and design systems that keep work flowing. 

Being busy isn't the same as being strategic. In this episode of This Is Strategic Marketing, Pamela Muldoon unpacks why so many marketing teams confuse motion with progress and how a smarter next step can shift the focus from output to impact. If your calendar is full but results feel thin, this less than 5-minute episode is for you.