Smart Conversations

Smart Conversationsicon

by Ian Howells

Publisher
Berry Powell Press
Publication
May 25, 2025
Format
Hardback
Illustrated
No
Price
$27.50
Dimensions
5.5 x 8.5 x 0.73 in
ISBN
978-1957321233
ASIN
1957321237
Pages
236
Age
Adult 18+
Category
Business & EconomicsSales & MarketingScience & Technology

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Description

Unlock the Future of B2B Marketing with AI-Powered Precision

Generative AI is revolutionizing B2B marketing—Smart Conversations shows you how to harness it for unparalleled growth. In this hands-on guide, marketing strategist Dr. Ian Howells reveals how to create and scale hyper-targeted campaigns in days, not months.

With over twenty years of experience crafting innovative, go-to-market strategies, Ian offers more than just theory. This book offers an actionable framework, featuring real ChatGPT conversation transcripts that show marketing plans come to life right before your eyes.

Readers will learn how to:

  • Maximize generative AI conversations to unlock powerful insights
  • Craft hyper-targeted messaging for micro-vertical markets
  • Scale operations while maintaining a personal touch
  • Stay ahead of the curve in the fast-evolving AI landscape

Whether you're a marketer, sales leader, or executive, Smart Conversations is your blueprint for driving market-shifting change and leading the next era of B2B growth.


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Dr. Ian Howells is a B2B SaaS strategist with over twenty years of experience crafting innovative go-to-market strategies. Having held executive positions at iconic software companies, he is pioneering the fusion of micro-vertical marketing and generative AI. His PhD is in Distributed Databases from Cardiff University.

Awards & Endorsements

Praise from Aaron Harris, Global CTO at Sage

“As someone who’s worked at the intersection of finance and innovation for over two decades, I can say this with confidence: Smart Conversations gets it. It turns generative AI into a practical engine for scalable, intelligent go-to-market execution.”

—Aaron Harris, Global CTO at Sage


Praise from Stuart Evans, PhD, Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University

“In the tradition of Crossing the Chasm, this book helps you do something even harder: build intelligent, trust-based markets from scratch. It’s not just about technology—it’s about timing, tone, and transformation.”

—Stuart Evans, PhD, Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley


Praise from Martina Lauchengco, Author and Partner at Costanoa Ventures
“Every marketer I know is trying to figure out how to rethink their
playbook with Gen AI. Ian takes his proven methodology and
shows, prompt-by-prompt, how to create and leverage customer
micro verticals. This is the Gen AI playbook on how to create su-
perior B2B marketing at scale.”

—Martina Lauchengco, Partner at Costanoa Ventures and Author of LOVED: How to Rethink Marketing Tech Products

Author(s)

Ian Howells

Ian Howells

Dr. Ian Howells is a visionary strategist and marketing pragmatist with over two decades of experience scaling B2B SaaS businesses. As the architect behind some of the most innovative go-to-market strategies in enterprise software, Ian has pioneered the fusion of micro-vertical marketing and generative AI to deliver precision, speed, and scale not previously possible.

Ian held executive roles at iconic software companies, from Silicon Valley startups like
Documentum to global cloud leaders like Sage, helping build categories and craft stories that resonate across industries. In Smart Conversations, he distills a blueprint for the next era of B2B growth—where AI meets micro-vertical segmentation, and every message moves markets. His work empowers leaders to move beyond tactics and into intelligent, whole-system thinking.

Ian holds a PhD in Distributed Databases from Cardiff University.

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