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#4 B2B Website Purpose – 7 things every CEO should know about marketing
B2B website purpose As websites have evolved, I am still surprised to find many B2B websites are basically all about the company and what they do or what they offer. That may sound strange to you as a CEO. After all, isn’t the purpose of your website to let people know who you are and what they can buy from you? That is true in a way, [...]
#3: B2B Buyer Journey – 7 things every CEO should know about marketing
This third blog post of the “7 things a CEO needs to know about marketing” series focuses on the B2B buyer journey. You may believe your company sells stuff to the market – like your products or services, however, that is your seller view and not a buyer view. You indeed have products and services, and you definitely engage in activities that lead to [...]
#2: Not all marketing is the same – 7 things every CEO should know about marketing
Many CEOs tell me about marketing companies that call or email them to sell automated nurture, or paid search, or SEO, or other services that they assure the CEO is what works. There are certainly some marketing tactics that one might consider fundamental to many business operations but the real truth is, and the #2 in my series of 7 things every CEO should [...]
#1: The Ante – 7 things every CEO should know about marketing
The Marketing Ante What do you, as a CEO, need to know about marketing? If you have a marketing professional in a leadership role on your team, you might initially think you don’t need to know that much. Of course, how do you know if they are doing a good job? If you are a CEO that has part-time marketing staff, or maybe just [...]
A Successful B2B Lead Generation Program – Key Commitments from Marketing & Sales
The goal of any B2B lead generation program is to ultimately generate as many actionable leads as possible for the sales team. There are certainly plenty of topics around an approach, but the one area I want to focus on now is the absolute commitments that marketing and sales must make to each other to create an environment that will produce success. At the heart [...]
Best Practices for Today’s Virtual Events
One very obvious phenomenon during the COVID-19 crisis has been the great increase in online live and recorded webinars and full-on virtual events (multi-session events). We have been directly involved in increasing the use of both and both creating and project managing these events. Here are some best practices for today's virtual events to keep in mind: Develop guidelines for the SMEs (Subject Matter [...]