8/2/2026 4:22:23 AM The French Connection (and the World’s Most Expensive Lawn) By Tim Hughes When my parents retired, they decided to buy a sixth of a farmhouse near Saint-Quay-Portrieux, a charming little seaside resort in...
8/1/2026 4:19:08 AM The Day the Beautiful Game Crashed the Party By Tim Hughes My family has never been what you’d call "athletic." Or "sports-literate." Or remotely aware of major international tournaments.Case in...
7/31/2026 10:34:25 AM Could you have AI sales agents that buyers would actually appreciate? By Tim Hughes In a recent piece, MarTech analyst Scott Brinker posed a question that hit the nail on the head: "Could you have AI sales agents that...
7/31/2026 7:44:17 AM Anatomy of a Hiring Disaster: The Marketing Director Who Hid in Plain Sight By Tim Hughes We had a Marketing Manager who was talented, but she had a glaring flaw. Every single Monday, she’d march into the office brimming with a...
7/30/2026 7:16:46 AM Why we're draining the Linkedin swamp of spam By Tim Hughes Last week, I wrote a blog post called “Why We Didn't Create an AI Tool to Automate Your Outbound Prospecting.” In it, I talked about why...
7/29/2026 3:40:46 PM The 2026 CMO Gap: Why AI Recommends (or Ignores) Your Brand By Tim Hughes Most marketing leaders are throwing money at AI tools right now. Very few actually understand why an LLM recommends one brand and...
7/29/2026 7:20:32 AM The Currency of Credibility: Scaling Evidential Selling with AI By Tim Hughes Recently, the definition of trust in commercial relationships has shifted from purely relational to fundamentally evidential. While...
7/28/2026 8:58:05 AM Why a purchase of Azpertilo for many customers is cost neutral By Tim Hughes Most B2B tech was built to help sellers sell, which usually means spamming inboxes and blasting out robotic phone calls. We threw that...
7/28/2026 8:39:46 AM Beyond the Buzzwords: Timothy Hughes on Writing, AI, and Building a Lasting Author Legacy By Tim Hughes When people hear my name, they usually associate it with modern sales strategy, modern leadership, and Social Selling, the subject of my...
7/26/2026 4:16:44 AM The Time I Diagnosed My Munich Hotel Room with an STI By Tim Hughes Picture this: It was many years ago, well before the internet lived in our pockets, and I was in my carefree twenties. A friend and I...
7/25/2026 4:04:27 AM The Lime Green Legend: Baboons, Key Blunders, and French Engineering By Tim Hughes Back in the 1970s, my parents decided to buy their very first brand-new car: a lime green, ex-demonstrator Renault 6. At the time,...
7/24/2026 7:53:24 AM Second-Hand Gossip: My Career as a Non-Smoking Smoker By Tim Hughes The other day, a friend of mine whom I’ve known for three decades turned to me and asked: "Fancy nipping out for a cigarette?" I looked...
7/23/2026 1:45:03 PM The Ecosystem Edge: Why AI Is Shifting the Global Startup Battlefield From Capital to Environment By Tim Hughes For decades, the standard playbook for tech entrepreneurs was clear: secure a massive venture capital runway, hire aggressively, and...
7/23/2026 9:13:11 AM Why the Era of the Anonymous Founder Is Officially Over By Tim Hughes For a long time, the playbook for building a successful company relied on a heavy dose of institutional polish. You crafted a clean logo,...
7/23/2026 8:43:32 AM How We're Using AI to Build Authentic Trust With Buyers at Scale By Tim Hughes It’s mind-blowing how fast AI is reshaping sales, and no, I don't mean turning your team into an army of automated spam bots Meet...
7/22/2026 8:06:17 AM Happy 10th Year Birthday to #TimTalk Podcast! By Tim Hughes 10 years ago today, I pressed "record" on the very first episode. Looking back, I could never have predicted where this journey would...