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Category Archives: B2B Marketing
The One Thing Keeping Enterprise Marketing Organizations from Real Impact (and How to Address It)
In the last decade, Marketing Technology (MarTech) has proved to be a powerful integrating force within B2B enterprise marketing groups. But counteracting that strength is a powerful and persistent weakness. Since joining The Pedowitz Group, and in my own B2B … Continue reading
Feast or Famine in the Marketing Automation Space?
Feast or Famine in the Marketing Automation Space? The power of Marketing Automation can be mighty, which is why I was sorry to see the announcement that Adobe is purchasing Marketo. There are many advantages to the acquisition, as described … Continue reading
Marketing Insanity
A quote widely attributed to Albert Einstein reads, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” This is increasingly true in B2B Marketing, where the pace of change has accelerated exponentially in … Continue reading
An Open Letter To My Network
Networking Is About Paying It Forward Most of the time we live in our busy work worlds, sometimes forgetting that people have lives outside the office. Occasionally we remember to reach out to those we work with, as suggested by … Continue reading
What’s a CMO to Do?
According to Scott Brinker at ChiefMarTec.com, the average enterprise today now uses over 1000 cloud services. MarTech presents the largest menu of vendor options. As of April 2018, over 7000 active MarTech solutions are available in 47 categories. That’s 700% growth … Continue reading
B2B Marketing’s Fault Lines
Ten years ago a seismic shift rocked the B2B Marketing community. Marketing Automation Systems (MAS) began cracking our foundations. Suddenly they were “on the radar” of every marketing executive, becoming required learning. Within a few years investments in MarTech were … Continue reading
Content Contentment
What to Do If You’re Not Content With Your Content Growing companies accumulate a lot of content – good, bad and ugly. Marketing generates everything from short-form materials such as blogs, posts, and web copy to long-format content such as white papers and eBooks. … Continue reading
Content Across the Ages
In his recent MarketingProfs article, “The Brand-Content Preferences of Different Age Groups,” Ayaz Nanji examines HubSpot survey data and concludes that every age segment has different content preferences. Seems we all consider videos “the most memorable type of brand content.” … Continue reading
Posted in B2B Marketing, Channel Preference, Content Marketing, Customer Behavior, Customer Experience, Customer Experience Research, Customer Segmentation, Digital Marketing
Tagged B2B Marketing, Channel Preference, Content Marketing, Customer Behavior, Customer Experience, Customer Experience Research, Customer Segmentation, Digital Marketing
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Marketing Megatrends for 2018 – A Lot to Digest
According to Matthew Sweezey’s 11/29/17 article in MarketingProfs, we can expect “Five Marketing Megatrends for 2018”. I’ve digested and summarized those megatrends below. But are these attainable for companies without mega-budgets? Let’s examine: Context Replaces Advertising as a Growth Lever … Continue reading
Posted in B2B Marketing, Channel Preference, Customer Behavior, Customer Experience Research, Customer Segmentation, Digital Marketing, Marketing Automation, Social Media CRM
Tagged B2B Marketing, Channel Preference, Content Marketing, Customer Behavior, Customer Experience Research, Customer Segmentation, Digital Marketing, Marketing Automation, Social Media CRM
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Dear Marketing Leaders, Use It or Lose It
As we near the end of 2017, many publicly-held companies will be examining budget usage against performance. At this time of year, Marketing leaders often become concerned that their unused budget will be pulled back to improve year-end financials – … Continue reading
