The Marketer’s Torch
Twenty unwritten rules for your first five years in B2B marketing.
A guide to the unwritten rules of how marketing really works inside large companies: where budgets come from, how decisions get made and how good work reaches the top floor.

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The unwritten rules, written down.
Every large company has an official way marketing is supposed to work, and a real one. The real one decides which budgets get approved, which ideas reach the executive team and which teams get the credit.
Nobody hands you that rulebook when you join. Most marketers learn it the hard way, one missed budget cycle and one stalled project at a time. The Marketer’s Torch writes it down.
Twenty rules in four parts, from the meeting that is really just an announcement to how your work reaches the top floor.
Three things nobody tells you.
How money really moves inside a large company, and how to be in the room when it does.
Who actually says yes, who can say no and how to work with both.
Why great marketing often goes unseen by leadership, and how to change that.
The chapters.
Twenty rules in four parts. The first ten:
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Steve Goldhaber.
Steve has spent about 30 years in marketing, including 10 years at Digitas and years leading global digital marketing and content at Aon and JLL. He founded 26 Characters, a B2B content studio based in Chicago.
He is also the author of What’s Your Problem?, The Recruiter’s Dilemma and The Two-Oar Recruiter.
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