Marketing Strategy

The One-Person B2B Marketing Department Playbook – Chapter 1 – Taking Inventory

As a one-person (or small staff) B2B marketing shop, the logical place to start is to map out (take inventory of) the current knowledge and skills you can competently bring to the table yourself, the knowledge and skills you believe you should learn to provide yourself, and then those that you are willing to outsource to ensure the success of your marketing efforts. Taking inventory is the first step in the B2B Marketing Playbook.

The One-Person B2B Marketing Department Playbook – Introduction

This B2B Marketing Playbook (series of articles and then a real book) is designed specifically to cover the unique challenges that one-person (or small staff) marketers face. The end goal is to accelerate the overall process enabling you to deliver all of the full-service marketing deliverables required to drive sales success for your business.

Increase Your Webinar Attendance (Best Practices)

Webinars are one of the most effective demand generation tools when done right. Why is that true? It is because you get a room full (virtually) of qualified prospects who want to be there to hear and see the content provided on a topic which you control. They are a captive, qualified audience. That is not an easy thing to accomplish as an in-person event. Of course, the part of that original statement that is […]

Marketing in the New World – new purpose, new skills

In the first post on this topic, “Marketing in the new world – the cheese is moved,” I covered the first marketing new world order (my term) that states: that technology has completely and radically changed the way your potential and existing customers engage with and purchase from your company.

Your prospects don’t have to rely on sales personnel to gain the information they need early in the buying process to […]

Marketing in the new world – the cheese is moved

Your “marketing” cheese got moved and I am writing to help you find it. To that end, here are the two things your organization must embrace in terms of sales and marketing in this new technology-driven world.

Technology has completely and radically changed the way your potential and existing customers engage with and purchase from your company.

The spoils will go to the suppliers who commit to engaging customers […]