Category Archives: B2B marketing tip

Scattered Secrets: How CRM Silos Can Kill Pipeline Potential

Just imagine: you’ve invested in a sleek, top-of-the-line CRM system, yet sticky notes prevail, your inside sales team still relies on spreadsheets and your sales team prefers the enclosed bounds of their little black book. Marketing blasts out campaigns without … Continue reading

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The Balancing Act: B2B EMEA Field Marketing vs. Central Marketing 

or How to be a successful Field Marketing Manager  The life of a B2B marketer is rarely straightforward, but for those navigating the nuances of the EMEA region, the stakes can feel even higher. As an EMEA Field Marketing Manager, … Continue reading

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Behind the Logo: Weaving the Fabric of Teamwork 

The company logo is a badge of honour, a symbol of belonging to something bigger than yourself. If you’re wearing the logo, you’re on the team, you share the goal and vision. But true teamwork transcends just sporting the colours. … Continue reading

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Email: The Ten Commandments

1. Don’t waste a word. Hook them with the subject line, be clear, concise, and unique – pique curiosity without misleading. One chance to make a first impression and all that. 2. Know your audience. Know each audience in fact, … Continue reading

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Trade shows – sore feet is the easy bit.

Trade shows – book the stand, brief the graphic design with some catchy messaging, book the hotels, roll up, eye up competitors’ stands, have a chat with former colleagues, overdo it at the show party and go home with a … Continue reading

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B2B Marketing? It’s Basically Selling Toothpaste (to People, Not Teeth)

Craving a quick sugar fix? Businesses have them too, not for sweets, but for efficiency. That’s where B2B marketing comes in. Think it’s different from selling toothpaste? Wrong! Both are about understanding human needs and desires, even if one involves … Continue reading

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What before How

So many marketing organisations seem to have all the channel delivery but none of the planning of what they need to say, to whom and when. Relevance trumps channel and frequency. Social is just a message channel. Blogs are a … Continue reading

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Schrodinger’s lead

Just as the cat is both alive and dead until the box is opened, a lead is both valuable and not valuable until it is qualified and nurtured. Until a lead is qualified, you don’t know if they are a … Continue reading

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Noise or a voice?

There’s so much noise out there, it’s overwhelming. I’m talking really about the noise of high volume content, which says nothing of note, noticed by nobody in particular, just adding to the general fray. Am I talking about AI generated … Continue reading

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Weaving the strands together

Plans and lists. Successful marketing outcomes rely on a breadth of planning activities that can’t be underestimated, even if no-one outside the marketing team really cares about or needs to see what’s involved. Any campaign or event, from the single … Continue reading

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