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The Observer's Paradox In B2B: Why Chasing Clicks Is Training Your Campaigns to Find the Wrong Buyers

We explore how to fix it across multi-channel surfaces where B2B research happens at scale

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Mike Harty
Jul 23, 2026
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Welcome back to The B2B Stack. A Substack note I posted a couple of weeks ago on the click-optimisation trap struck more of a nerve than I expected, so I want to properly finish the thought here: where the problem actually comes from, what the evidence says, why it gets worse the moment you step outside display, and what a saner measurement stack looks like in practice.

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