The case study is the best marketing you are not writing
An opinion, backed by what our clients' analytics actually show: one honest case study outperforms a quarter of blog posts.
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Runs Fieldnote, a content studio for B2B companies. Case studies, research and honest marketing.
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In Dana’s words
Fieldnote is a four-person studio. We write case studies and original research for software and services companies, and we look at the analytics a year later to see what actually worked.
On Aqvil since Apr 26, 2026 · Manchester, UK
An opinion, backed by what our clients' analytics actually show: one honest case study outperforms a quarter of blog posts.
The order of questions matters more than the questions themselves. Here is the structure we use on every call.
The survey reports that get cited for years are built differently from the ones that get read once and forgotten.
We called back every subject from case studies we published in one calendar year to check if the numbers held up. Most did not, in an interesting way.
A specific, common pattern in customer quotes that reads as fake even when it is completely true.