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Jeff Nolan

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Field Guides

Long-form guides to systems I've built and run. Each one follows the same format: the problem, the system, the numbers, and a template or checklist you can take with you.

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Field Guide

Brand integration after an acquisition

What to keep, what to redirect, and what happens to pipeline while two brands overlap, worked through with a made-up parent and a made-up acquisition.

  • brand
  • integration
  • pipeline
11 min read
Field Guide

Building a digital marketing engine from scratch

The order I would stand up a digital marketing system when there isn't one: what to build first, what to refuse to build yet, and the first number that shows the engine is real.

  • operating-model
  • martech
  • build-sequence
7 min read
Field Guide

The growth engineer's stack

A stack of tools is not an agent system. Orchestration reads one brain of context, skills, and outcomes, and the next run starts from what the last one wrote.

  • agents
  • orchestration
  • growth-engineering
11 min read
Field Guide

Leading a hybrid team: people and agents

The hard part is moving the marketers you already have. The skill can be built. Experience has to sit on the decisions and the gates.

  • leadership
  • team
  • agents
8 min read
Field Guide

Attribution that sales believes

How to get sales to accept the source on every opportunity: source means last touch, stamped at creation, and a seller playbook that makes the account concrete.

  • attribution
  • sales-alignment
  • measurement
7 min read
Field Guide

Fewer, bigger deals

How a marketing system can produce fewer opportunities and larger ones: what you stop chasing, what you aim at instead, and the caveats that keep the claim honest.

  • pipeline
  • deal-size
  • win-rate
8 min read
Field Guide

Pipeline per program dollar

The system behind a 20:1 to 28:1 move in pipeline per program dollar: a gate in front of every dollar, a habit of cutting what does not convert, and a definition you can audit.

  • pipeline
  • efficiency
  • operating-model
7 min read
Field Guide

Building tiny audiences

How signals split one broad segment into many small audiences, each with its own campaign, behind three guardrail tiers. Plus the size floor and when to merge back.

  • audiences
  • segmentation
  • guardrails
14 min read