thePoint: B2B Marketing & Sales blog by GROWTHPOINT®
Welcome! thePoint: B2B Marketing & Sales blog offers usable, actionable information that focuses on latest in MarTech and best practices that can be implemented into your B2B marketing & sales 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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]