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Joe Grace
With over 20 years experience building Health and Wellness businesses as a senior operating and marketing executive, Joe has pioneered the use multi-channel, direct marketing programs to grow healthcare businesses with the best possible ROIs. His experience includes eHealth, Pharmaceuticals, Health Insurance, OTC drugs, Skincare, Weight Loss Programs, Dietary Supplements and Personal Care Products. As Head of Online Marketing at WebMD, Joe was part of a turnaround team responsible for growing WebMD into the #1 destination for eHealth.
Recent Posts

Your Buyers Have Already Shortlisted You—Or They Haven't
Wed, Sep 2, 2026 | Posted by Sabrina Donley
Executive Takeaways
- 95% of B2B buyers purchase from the vendors on their initial shortlist, formed before any formal buying process begins.
- That shortlist is increasingly built inside AI platforms your analytics can't see.
- AI referral traffic is roughly 1% of total website traffic, yet 15% or more of conversions appear to originate from AI-influenced research, a gap standard attribution misses entirely.
- If you're not on the Day One list, spend alone won't fix it.
Part 3 of our four-part series on the evolving AI search landscape and what B2B leaders need to know to stay competitive.
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The Solution to Mediocre Marketing? A CMO Leading Multiple Niche Agencies
Thu, Apr 26, 2012 — It sounds like a great idea to turn your business's entire multichannel marketing campaign over to a single large marketing agency, doesn't it? You simply tell the agency, "Here's our target market, this is our brand, here's how we would like to position ourselves. Now go create the content, buy the media and help us grow." And the agency promotes itself as a "full-service" provider capable of handling every detail of your marketing from soup to nuts. So why are the results so frequently lackluster?
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