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What Is Thought Leadership? – Five Ways It Drives Success For Your Business
Thought leadership refers to the position of being a recognized and authoritative source of innovative and influential ideas within a particular industry, field, or subject. A thought leader is someone who is considered an expert and visionary in their area of expertise and who often drives conversations, shapes opinions, and influences the direction of that…
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Interns For Marketing? – Opportunities and Mistakes
Working with interns can be heaven or hell – that’s up to you. Today we share our experiences with interns, why you should consider working with them and mistakes we’ve learned over the years.
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Is Price The Most Important Thing?
I wish I had a nickel for every time I’ve had a client insist that “Price is the most important thing to customers!” According to thousands of research projects, they are simply wrong. When you ask clients what matters most, eventually they’ll mention price, but it’s generally not their #1 priority.
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Is Elon Nuts? – How To Flush Billions In Equity
Everyone’s favorite billionaire just took one of the world’s most recognized brands and tossed millions of its value out the window, and has left us all asking: is he nuts?
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How Much Should Marketing Cost? – The Dangerous Guessing Game
Today we’re going to talk about the most boring of all boring subjects – money! Specifically how to tie the marketing budget to the outcome – what we call “Marketing Return on Investment or MROI”.
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The B2B Marketing Mindset – Get Your Mind Right
Today Bill Lowell and I are discussing what it means to have a B2B Marketing Mindset and why it’s the foundation of marketing success.
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How Not To Do LinkedIn: Are you doing this? Please Stop.
Today I’m going to share some of the most pathetic sales attempts in history from folks on LinkedIn.
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Too Much or Not Enough? – How to Set the Marketing Budget
There are many ways to set sales and/or marketing budgets, so how do you choose the right one?
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Professional Facilitators: Deliver Better Outcomes
Bringing in an outside facilitator is often thought to be the domain of the Fortune 100/500 crowd, however many small and mid-sized businesses work with facilitators regularly in my experience. Having someone with specific skills in facilitation with added subject matter experience results in team collaborations that work.
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How to Double Your Price – The Secret Key: Enhancing Value Perception
What does “value” mean to you and your customers? Can you describe it? I think companies have flogged the word “value” to the point where we have practically lost track of what it actually means…