As a chief marketing officer (CMO) or senior B2B marketing professional, there are few things as satisfying as earning and maintaining the trust of your CEO, and for that matter, the rest of the executive team. Conversely, if you do not have this trust, your professional life can be quite painful. In my career, I’ve […]
I talk about the concept of stopping “revenue leakage” a lot, and one of the biggest causes of revenue leakage is when sales or marketing reps fail to follow-up (FTFU). You spend a lot of time and money to generate inquiries and then see the effort wasted. Not only is this bad sales and marketing […]
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 […]
Rather than my usual practice of writing some in-depth content about a specific subject area, thought I would share some quick thoughts on some important subjects related to B2B marketing and sales. Sometimes there’s just too much going on for a single-topic post! Monitoring Performance A guy named John Wanamaker, who was a pioneer of […]
There are a few characteristics that will help you not only survive, but thrive—regardless of any shifts in the changing marketing landscape. Following are five key characteristics that will separate you, as a winning B2B marketer, from the has-beens and also-rans. A Winning B2B Marketer Stops What is Hurting. The first road to improvement […]
Okay, it’s time for a little honesty. How many of your potential buyers want to hear from you on an unsolicited basis? How many are glad that you called when they weren’t expecting to hear from you? How many are happy that you keep sending them email after email until they finally click on the […]
Myron Berg, the FMP partner who heads our online marketing strategy, wrote a great article titled Driving More B2B Leads with Help from Customer Testimonials and Online Reviews, about how to use customer reviews to drive new business. The entire article is worth reading and you can access it here. The main theme of the […]
I was attending a fitness class at my health club this past weekend and the instructor was talking about how full the club was in early January and how many of the people were “New Year’s resolution” exercisers who would probably be absent within a month. He said that many people have noble intentions and […]
B2B Marketing is a tricky business with a lot of moving parts. To do it right, you need the answers to the appropriate questions. Here are five to get you started: Is what you offer a commodity or a differentiated product or service? This is a critical question because it will determine how you must […]
Napoleon once remarked, “A general should consider himself successful if half of what he plans comes to pass.” This is not to say that you shouldn’t carefully plan. But the fact is that things don’t always turn out the way you plan (just ask Napoleon about a place called Waterloo). For example, the list is […]