Demand Generation: Why Marketing Gets it Wrong and Sales Doesn’t Get It At All
A new report called The Reinvention of B2B Marketing, from eConsultancy shows there is still quite a disparity between B2B marketing and sales organizations. The study reveals findings from a...
View ArticleTransformation is Necessary for Marketing to Innovate
Many marketers today are looking to innovate. Marketers discuss creating an innovative culture, brand innovation, creating and developing innovative products, establishing a culture of innovation....
View ArticleThe Rise of the Marketing Technologist Part 2: Who Owns The Marketing...
Last week we discussed the aftermath of Gartner’s prediction that the CMO will spend more on technology than IT by the year 2017. I posed a few questions at the end of the post — is a Marketing...
View ArticleDemand Generation Skill Set of the Not-So-Distant Future
It is a no-brainer – as marketing automation and demand generation continue to mature, the need for well-rounded and experienced demand generation marketers also increases. Recently, MarketingProfs...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Marketing Technologist Part 3: People, Process, Content and...
I was sitting in some client meetings recently going over their Demand Generation Strategy, and something struck me as out of the ordinary…but in a good way. All of the usual suspects were in the room...
View ArticleNotes from the Marketing Operations Executive Summit 2014
Rather than write a summary of the fantastic Marketing Operations Executive Summit, which just wrapped up in San Diego yesterday, I thought I might share the highlights by pulling together my “stream...
View ArticleDemand Generation – It’s Not That Easy
In reading many of the blogs and listening to some of the webinars and speeches that have been given about Demand Generation one would think that the path to Demand Generation is just a few simple step...
View ArticleChange of Seasons –Might be Time to Change your Process Too
Spring – what a beautiful time of the year. A glimpse of warmer weather to come. Beautiful days. Life is good. Everyone needs change. Change is good. Change builds character. Change can also be...
View ArticleTwo Reasons Your B2B Marketing Programs Are Failing
Many marketing organizations have good intentions when it comes to developing their demand generation programs: they want to increase qualified leads, sales opportunities, and closed/won revenue. At...
View ArticleWhy Relevant Content Is Not Enough
With Content Marketing World just weeks away, my mind has been on the number of organizations that have increased their marketing spend on the creation of new content. The latest results from the...
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