We’re overloaded with the message that “Content Is King,” but teams are still struggling with where to even start. Some latch onto sales trends that only guide a short-term strategy, while others rely on new technologies to do the work for them. We’re constantly inundated with endless choices as to […]
Rick
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At its core, ABM is about building relationships but there is one crucial thing often missing. I was reminded of this while talking with a VP of Marketing who stopped their account based marketing campaigns to “go deep” in a few segments. The reason? They wanted to focus on building stronger […]
The page had hardly turned on 2018 when I saw the headline . . . “Why You Need to Align Your Marketing and Sales Team for 2019.” Another year, another article for why it is important for organizations to align their marketing and sales teams – as if organizations do […]
Marketing can take you on a long hike. This is something that’s important to remember when it comes to generating leads. You can generate leads, use a lead value calculator, tell your lead what you can do for them, etc. but this isn’t going to get you anywhere if you […]
How can marketers better connect with people we hope will become our customers? Over the past year, I’ve been researching why there’s such a disconnect between marketing and customers so I can understand how to bridge that gap. Why? Because right now, the trust gap between marketers and customers has […]
Who should own B2B lead generation: sales, marketing or both? You might be thinking, “isn’t the answer obvious?” It’s not. Let me explain. I hear the same problem over and over. Sales and marketing aren’t doing a great job of executing Lead Generation because they both believe it’s the others […]
Lead nurturing is one of those things that’s easy to talk about but hard to do. In this article, I’ll share how to apply lead nurturing to help advance leads through three stages of your lead generation funnel to get more qualified opportunities. Here’s the thing: Our customer’s don’t see […]
No one will ever say “we don’t focus on the customer.” Here’s why (even empathetic) marketers fail at customer empathy and how to fix it. Let me explain: Dr. Johannes Huttula did research with 480 experienced marketing managers. They asked marketers to step into their customer’s shoes and predict what they would […]
We need to stop treating our customers like objects with our marketing and treat them like people. The same way that we should make sure we treat all our staff as people. Just because people are working for you, does not mean that you should treat them any different. A […]