Marketing Strategy

As a lean B2B business, navigating the digital landscape is a challenge. Between understanding your target audience, choosing the right channels, and the increasing pressure from your C-suite, it can seem like you’re juggling too many tasks with not enough time. This is where a

Making the decision to create your own startup is both exciting and daunting. You are about to bring your passions to life and make a living doing something you love. More importantly, you get to share that passion with customers by providing them with exceptional products or servi

When I joined my longtime colleague and friend Howard Dresner at his company Dresner Advisory Services earlier this year, I was excited to be going back to my roots in Business Intelligence (BI). I also looked forward to the upcoming fourth annual Real Business Intelligence event

What does your CEO think of your marketing team? If you’re not sure how to respond, you should work on that relationship — especially if you’re the CMO.  Marketers can fall easily into the trap of sticking to traditional roles like advertising and brand development. Howeve

You had to know it was coming, right? Facebook smashed Snapchat’s entire business model when it launched Instagram Stories. Stories are so successful that almost every social media app – including messaging apps like WhatsApp – offers their own versions now.  It’s ti

I recently had a conversation with an Account Director responsible for new market and existing customer growth for an Oracle Supply Chain and ERP partner that has offices throughout the US, Asia, and UK. I learned that the firm: Experiences 12 to 18-month sales cycle on enterpri

Marketers are under increasing pressure to show measurable results to the business. Marketing attribution is something I've been a little obsessed with since I started blogging. In the end, you have to be willing to take accountability for the success (or failure) of your marketin

Businesses looking to expand will have little to no luck focusing their efforts on the broad universe of potential customers. Instead, the key to growth comes from unlocking the characteristics that make up a specific subset of customers and prospects that are most likely to make

You might think you know your customer inside and out, but what you really know are the likes, dislikes, and behaviors of your ideal customer. In reality, each person engaging with your brand is unique. A one-size-fits-all approach to marketing fails to account for their individua

With new trends, customer behaviors, and technologies transforming the industry at top speed, there has never been a better time to be in marketing. While marketing has frequently fueled big consumer product enterprises, its influence is now growing through B2B companies, start-ups