What will your customers know about you when the COVID-19 crisis is over?

For many businesses today, the first reaction to the current social and economic crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic is to cut costs by downsizing staff or reducing paid hours, by shutting down production, or other measures. Every business will have to make hard choices. However, if your business, any type of business, firmly believes that you will survive this and you want to grow quickly after this is over, then you need to remember […]

Victoria Anders2021-01-19T19:14:06+00:00March 25th, 2020|Branding, Content Marketing, Marketing Leadership, Marketing Strategy, Messaging, Sales Leadership|

B2B Webinars: Build or Buy?

One conversation that catches my attention with B2B marketers is the “why don’t we just host and promote our own webinars instead of spending all those dollars with media companies?” That’s a great question and the answer is based on a clear understanding of what a webinar “is” and “what media companies sell.”

Anatomy of a webinar
The first thing is to have clarity on the required properties of a successful webinar. There are three things:

Webinar […]

Victoria Anders2021-11-09T16:11:18+00:00February 27th, 2020|Content Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Virtual Engagements|

B2B Marketers: The most important questions to ask sales

B2b marketers, when you get sales leadership (or better yet, even just a few of the truly good sales people) in a room, what information should you get from them to create more success for both marketing and sales in your organization? What are the most important questions to ask sales?

There are two key topic areas where your questions will serve you best — value propositions and lead quality/quantity.

Value Proposition

What […]

Victoria Anders2021-02-26T23:31:58+00:00February 21st, 2020|Marketing Leadership, Marketing Strategy, Sales Leadership|

Where Messaging Matters

You wrote your messaging (some call it value propositions) for your brand and each of your products, now what do you do with that messaging? If you only use messaging in advertising or in a powerpoint or document that you want sales to share, you will miss an important step. Where messaging matters: Everything customer facing

Where messaging matters: Your overall brand messaging and specific product messaging should be used in every customer facing […]

Victoria Anders2021-01-21T19:45:42+00:00February 4th, 2020|Branding, Content Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Messaging|

Improve sales effectiveness with cloud-based sales enablement and automation tool

Product Release: Improve sales effectiveness with cloud-based sales enablement and automation tool. The right message and collateral at a salesperson’s fingertips!

Solution Pitch, a cloud-based sales automation tool, is simply something that sales people dream of and likely don’t have. Now their dreams have come true – your salesperson can use their mobile device or any browser to quickly locate and send their prospect the perfect solution pitch every time.

Sales Challenge

Once a salesperson qualifies […]

Victoria Anders2021-01-13T17:51:46+00:00January 24th, 2020|Lead Management, Marketing Automation, Marketing Strategy, Sales Enablement|

The One-Person B2B Marketing Department Playbook – Chapter 5 – Marketing Content: Baiting the Hook

One-Person B2B Marketing Department Playbook: Chapter 5 – Marketing Content

If you have ever fished, you know that having the right bait greatly increases your chance of catching fish compared to just having a plain steel hook in the water (it’s shiny but not fooling anyone!). If marketing content is a fishing analogy, then your content is the bait.

When engaging marketing prospects to respond […]

Victoria Anders2021-02-22T23:35:27+00:00January 10th, 2020|B2B Marketing Playbook, Marketing Leadership, Marketing Strategy|

Which Conversion Attribution Model is Best for You?

Which conversion attribution model is best is for you? In this day and age it isn’t uncommon to find a diverse mix of channels and tactics in demand generation and marketing plans, and this is to be expected as each tactic has different strengths and weaknesses. The big question for marketers, however, is how to demonstrate how these diverse tactics effect conversions or e-commerce sales.

The answer to this big question is conversion attribution modeling or […]

Victoria Anders2020-09-12T15:27:00+00:00December 7th, 2019|Marketing Leadership, Marketing Strategy|

The One-Person B2B Marketing Department Playbook – Chapter 4 – Marketing Investments You Can’t Skip

B2B Marketing Department Playbook – Chapter 4: Marketing investments you can’t skip (just because you lack resources)

As a one-person or small-staff B2B marketing department, there is likely a tension between executing campaigns/tactics that are visible to the rest of the company and internal marketing investments (which are foundational to delivering the quality and results for those campaigns/tactics). I get it. Your management team wants to measure every dollar you spend. However, an important part of […]

Victoria Anders2021-01-12T19:45:59+00:00November 14th, 2019|B2B Marketing Playbook, Marketing Leadership, Marketing Strategy|

The One-Person B2B Marketing Playbook – Chapter 3 – Defining What Success Will Look Like

Chapter 3: Defining What Success Will Look Like

For a smaller marketing department, it is even more crucial to create and implement a plan quickly to inspire confidence, expand your budget, and grow your marketing investments and success for the company. You can’t hide behind much when it’s just you. Amazingly, I have discovered that in marketing groups of all sizes, one of the fundamental weaknesses has been clearly defining what success will look like for […]

Wayne Madden2020-05-26T22:17:27+00:00October 15th, 2019|B2B Marketing Playbook, Marketing Leadership, Marketing Strategy, Sales Leadership|

The One-Person B2B Marketing Department Playbook – Chapter 2 – Filling the Gaps

With your inventory scores in hand (see Pre-requisite Work), we are ready to talk about how you can examine your scores and start considering what will be a priority in hiring (as budget allows) or outsourcing to accomplish your marketing mission as you progress. The good news is that you have both internal and external sources of knowledge and skills to fill gaps for you along the way. Below we will review these source options following the inventory form categories and then discuss priorities in terms of what you might consider first as you build your team and capabilities.

Wayne Madden2020-06-13T21:35:41+00:00September 15th, 2019|B2B Marketing Playbook, Marketing Leadership, Marketing Strategy|