In a recent article, Eight Critical Brand Health Questions You Should Be Asking, I shared the questions that you should be asking to determine if your B2B brand is helping or hurting your company. Branding incorporates a number of elements (e.g. name, message, promise, graphic elements, etc.) but I will focus this message specifically on […]
I have had more than a few people accuse me of being obsessed with marketing numbers (guilty as charged). One of my chief focuses has always been the production of high-quality B2B sales leads. Of course, there are many flavors of leads and one person’s definition of sales-ready is another’s definition of a substandard lead. […]
One of the dilemmas we face as executives, marketers or sales professionals that care about B2B revenue growth, is how to spend our time and money. Should we work on project A, which will take one week to complete and create X value, or should we work on project B, which will take a month […]
Perhaps you have a great product or service that has proven benefits for those fortunate enough to purchase from your company. However, you are not getting the marketplace traction or revenue growth you need, and competitors are grabbing what should be your market share. The tendency in such a scenario is to demand a better […]
We are into the second month of the new year. Is your 2018 revenue growth plan on schedule? Are you thinking that more of what you did in 2017, plus a motivational sales meeting and some organic growth will take care of your growth targets? Or is the plan to solve the need by hiring […]
Okay. I get that the title of this article is a little ambitious. However, there are things B2B marketers can do to achieve better alignment with their sales counterparts – leading to not only better results for the company, but also to better professional and personal relationships. It is all about achieving alignment, in terms […]
Marketing and sales professionals talk about awareness, leads, opportunities and revenue. They do this because their ability to achieve positive and measurable results in these categories defines job performance. However, many companies would benefit from a taking a step back to gain a holistic and top-down view of the entire lead-to-revenue (L2R) process. The lead-to-revenue […]
Lots of sales reps and marketers are crossing their fingers hoping for a strong end to the quarter. They have been pushing offers and content and communicating as often as they can – without turning off their prospects. Laments ring out: Why can’t anyone make a decision? What are they waiting for? Why won’t my […]
The relationship between marketing and sales is so crucial to a company’s success yet it is often less than ideal. In my company, we get to work with a fair number of CMOs and CSOs and while they are usually great at their individual jobs, they need to work together well to drive the revenue […]
Some marketers and business owners believe that the strength of their product or service is what determines success. While this is no doubt true in a few rare cases, most often, even a great product or service has to be marketed properly to succeed. And the best marketing is centered around what we call a […]