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A broken ice cream machine is the best b2b marketing

Why it's the best idea you've never done

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B2B Trust Lab
Apr 15, 2025
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We’ve all been there. You shuffle up to the counter, visions of vanilla swirls dancing in your head, only to be met with those soul-crushing words: “The ice cream machine is out of service.”

It’s become so routine that you’d think it was a feature, not a flaw. One restaurant I visited with a free ice cream dessert got so fed up that they nixed soft-serve from the menu entirely.

And just like that, sadness was rebranded as policy.

But what does this have to do with B2B marketing? Oh, everything.

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