Episode 10 – Marketing shifts, demand creation and brand-building with Erik Sternklint

Season 2: The apple doesn’t fall far!
With Erik Sternklint
Head of Marketing at Altura
Also joined by Skout’s founder and Director, Rob Skinner

Episode Overview

What shapes a modern B2B marketer’s judgement? In this episode of Shaking the B2B Tree, Rob Skinner speaks with Erik Sternklint, head of marketing at Altura, about the moments that have influenced his approach to strategy and team building.

Erik reflects on the shift that changed how he thinks about demand generation, the early risks he took in start ups, and the lessons drawn from brand projects that never quite held together. He also discusses how AI is altering discovery and why steady, thoughtful content now has far more influence over visibility than paid tactics alone.

Key Takeaways

Demand generation - Brand understanding creates stronger demand than any volume of quick capture tactics.
Ownership - Giving marketers full ownership of their area leads to better work than tightly controlled task lists.
AI search - AI search and community chatter now influence discovery as much as traditional inbound.

People love brands that recognise them and feel human.

Mentioned in This Episode

📌 Platforms: Altura’s AI platform for complex tenders and RFPs.
📌 Brand-led activity: A move towards brand led activity and away from demo driven capture ads
📌 Buying behaviour: The rise of AI search, Reddit threads and community signals in buying behaviour

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