Sustaining value.
In this multi-year, ongoing client relationship the managing director has challenged us to identify new markets, expand their revenue base outside their core healthcare market and to develop content including with thought leadership pieces and white papers). This private company has experienced increasing revenue and very healthy margins in each of the last five years,... Read More
Get clear to get results.
Even those experienced professionals who advocate quantitative marketing as both a strategic and tactical philosophy or guidance system are acknowledging that the team and its leadership need to know 1) what the prospect looks like (real-world profile) and 2) what that person needs and wants to be more successful and satisfied in their work and... Read More
Start with the customer’s perepective. Then work your magic.
Guideline #1: Plan from your target’s perspective. Start by segmenting your audience, then figure out the set of marketing activities that will move them through the funnel. Guideline #2: Find a recipe that works for you and your strengths. Don’t reinvent the wheel every time – figure out the right set of activities that drive... Read More
Are you getting there?
Have an end in your mind. Peers, colleagues and coaches, all smarter than me, have hammered this fundamental success building block home again and again . . . 1) create a picture or clear written statement of your objective, 2) list the actions you will take to achieve this end along with a specific date... Read More
Innovative, creative leadership = Higher ROI
We need and deserve only those creative and innovative professionals who are achievers to lead our marketing teams, initiatives and campaigns. Why? First, the shape and look of today’s prospects and customers continue to change and evolve. Google has forever redirected the buyer’s “discovery” process. So we absolutely must be creative to get our value... Read More
Value-laden Fractional Chief Marketing Officer Services
Major Benefits: Relieve the CEO of the responsibility for managing and executing the marketing function, which is often outside of the CEO’s, CFO’s and COO’s areas of expertise. Engaging a fractional CMO assures you have consistent strategic counsel at the executive level. Your FCMO also manages marketing projects and capably sources and engages with other... Read More
Are you the right one?
“Get the right people on the bus. Get the right people in the right seats on the bus. Get the wrong people off the bus. Then decide where to drive the bus.” Jim Collins in Good to Great.
Are your team’s strengths in play?
According to the Gallup organization, only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus 80 percent of these employees feel somewhat miscast in their roles. Covey in “The Speed of Trust”.
Content Marketing 2012
A new study shows that content marketing is now responsible for 26% of total B2B marketing spending. In addition, 60% of marketers plan to increase content marketing budgets in 2012, with a full nine of 10 organizations surveyed now using content marketing. The most popular content marketing tactics include articles (79%), social media (excluding blogs)... Read More
AWARENESS
AWARENESS in the business to business (B2B) marketing spaces and functions has definable and usable meaning that impacts your choices and actions to create relationships with prospects and turn them into customers and clients. And often it is a state of being that we desperately want to skip so we can shorten the sell cycle... Read More