Most marketers treat content like a tactic, not a product offering. Content truly focused on what your buyers and customers need to know becomes integrated with your products—just represented by media that you create and publish. For a litmus … [Read more...]
The Push-Me, Pull-Me of B2B Sales and Marketing Alignment: Macro vs. Micro
As I prepare for a panel discussing the critical gap between sales and marketing on Wednesday, a few thoughts occur about B2B sales and marketing alignment. B2B sales and marketing alignment —or the lack thereof—is something that’s been talked … [Read more...]
How Sales Enablement Results in Higher ROI for B2B Marketing Content
You’ve likely heard it. The silence in the forest of your content as not even a light breeze rustles its leaves with engagement. It’s been reported that the majority of marketing content is never used – especially not by salespeople. Why not? A … [Read more...]
B2B Marketing Performance is in Jeopardy
I sat pondering another in a burst of self-serving emails sent last week by salespeople who obviously lack any discipline in prospect research or the energy needed to attempt meaningful personalization. As one of the emails was from a company I'd … [Read more...]
The Power of B2B Buyer Perspective
I keep seeing that statistic - you know - the one that talks about how far through the buying process prospects are before they talk to salespeople. It's flawed. Here are a few reasons why: Prospects don't care if they're interacting with … [Read more...]