Is Your B2B Firm REALLY Marketing…Or Simply Making Tactical Soup?
Is Your B2B Marketing a Tactical Hodge Podge? B2B firms invest significant dollars and hours maintaining a broad range of marketing tactics that may or may not demonstrate economic value. Often, the...
View ArticleWhat the US Marines Can Teach Your B2B Firm about Marketing and Sales
Every Marine a Rifleman “Every Marine a Rifleman” is a basic tenet of the US Marine Corps. At boot camp, every marine receives training in marksmanship, hand-to-hand combat and teamwork. Regardless of...
View ArticleShould I Rekindle My Blog Love Affair…Or End It?
Can This Blog Affair Be Saved? Here’s a sad letter from the Marketing Craftsmanship mailbag: Dear Marketing Guy, I’ve fallen out of love with my Blog and I need your advice. My sad story: It was love...
View ArticleWhite Papers are Not Dead. They’re on Life Support.
Have Marketers Killed This B2B Golden Goose? The original purpose of white papers as a B2B marketing tactic was to produce objective information, packaged as quasi-academic research, that might...
View ArticleShould Marketing Automation Customers be Pre-Qualified?
For decades, the ONLY way to produce any type of printed material – ranging from sales & marketing brochures, to annual reports and informational flyers – involved a multi-step, time /...
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