Category Archives: B2B marketing tip

Moving swiftly on

What looks good in the short term somehow doesn’t always stack up a year or more down the line. A wise person said, who’s seen it all before. We’ll see. That’s the post.

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Ho hum, plus ça change.

Well, everyone’s read all the stuff about content marketing, and agreed it’s a far more appropriate strategy in today’s info rich world. But yet it’s quicker and easier to write a dodgy email and whack it out into the ether … Continue reading

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Maybe we should call it translation services instead.

I listen to the tech speak and observe how you built it and see how it does what it does and may or may not understand the true depths of the whats and hows, but then I probably don’t need … Continue reading

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Nurture. When marketing gets hold of a word and bleeds it dry.

I know what nurture means. It means to sustain, feed, grow. To marketers it means to email, slowly, or quickly ’til death us do part. Sorry content people and marketo admins. I know what you’re trying to do but maybe … Continue reading

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waste my time, not my customer’s.

Same old. Send the same message to enough people and it might just be right for someone. They do the work for you and sift through the junk. Not really smart or fair though is it? And you’re not learning … Continue reading

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Content with content?

Hasn’t it always been about content? Forgive me for missing or stating the obvious, but haven’t marketers always been challenged to put the ‘thing’ in front of their audience? The thing that informs, persuades, niggles and nurtures them into noticing, … Continue reading

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I’d just like to say…

… that we all work for the same company. We may have different approaches but is that so bad? With the same goal in mind, we all want to sell the same stuff, to generate revenue and ultimately support a … Continue reading

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Testing customer loyalty

Sometimes, as a consumer, I visit a website and am amazed at how difficult the company makes it for me to buy something. I wonder, have the people responsible ever actually sat on the outside and tried being a normal … Continue reading

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What’s the story?

The easy bit is choosing the data, the media, the means of direct or indirect communication to meet the people and start the conversation. The big question is, how are you going to stand out, why should they remember you, … Continue reading

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So it doesn’t work. It happens.

How annoying is that? You’ve researched, planned, scoped, written, created and delivered. But no response. It ‘missed’. What does that mean? You didn’t connect, you weren’t talking their language, they didn’t ‘get it’. So what now? Back to the drawing … Continue reading

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