[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In part 1 of this blog we talked about the need for marketing to justify the detailed ROI and spend efficiency and effectiveness of its activities, and the lengthy investments required to stand up an ABM-based demand generation engine. In this part 2 of the blog, we’ll add the one competing alternative that ABM should […]
A few weeks ago, I was invited to a networking dinner for Silicon Valley technology CMOS; we had come to listen to a well-known expert on ABM (aka “Account-Based Marketing”) to speak on digital marketing, a hot topic these days. In fact, I was fortunate enough to sit next to him during dinner and have […]
You probably never heard of “Growth Architecting,” and so you may be reading this thinking, here we go, yet another concept or acronym, and probably don’t know if you should care. We do think you should care, and let us explain why: Growth Architecting is shorthand for the integrated set of planning and monitoring techniques […]
September is the new January Most people think of January as the time of change and the time of new beginnings, but for B2B organizations, the New Year begins much earlier. Why? Because Q3 and Q4 opportunities not only make the numbers for that year but by landing them, companies avoid having to cut cost […]
One July 4th we had our annual BBQ – as every year, it was a nice opportunity for us to get together since we’re a virtual company. We can always count on lively debates because, frankly, we hail from all over the demand generation map and because it’s a rare opportunity for marketing and sales […]
Creating good content is tough. Really tough—especially when you’re trying to meet B2B demand generation deadlines. How many of us have created me-too pieces of content that we aren’t proud of—content pieces that have been blasted to the world in the hope that we will get a few more leads? Content Marketing Institute performed a survey […]
Emotions are powerful and the biggest emotional motivator of all is fear. There are two types of fear. The first is real. It gets triggered when facing actual, life threatening situations. The second is psychological—these are things we make up in our own minds because we’re afraid of failure, losing a job or missing an […]
Recently, I spent some time in Manhattan. This was after a long absence since my Business School and McKinsey days in the late 1980s. I had been asked to head up marketing for a private equity-owned security software startup as its Chief Marketing Officer. I was eager to go to Manhattan. I remembered how advanced […]
The number of marketing professionals proficient in marketing automation and ABM is surely greater than those that identifiably advertise an official credential or deep ABM expertise on their LinkedIn profile. But probably not by much; marketing people tend to be good at marketing, and so it stands to reason that if they have the skill, […]