July, 2010 | Marketing Darwinism

B2B Marketing needs to Curate a Vibrant Community

If you ask the members of my leadership team – they will tell you I keep talking about how I think we have B2B Marketing backward. Let me explain … We focus a lot of energy on the acquisition part of marketing looking for new customers and getting them up the awareness to consideration to [...] [...]

Closed Loop Marketing – still a long way to go

Ok I know we all talk a good game about Closed Loop Marketing and I don’t want to burst anyone’s bubble here but frankly we aren’t there yet. Yes we forced the loop to close with some great technologies over the last few years. CRM systems, MRM systems, Lead Nurturing systems and the list goes [...] [...]

Shadow Pipeline – accounting for the missing dollars

Well its summertime, a time when we turn down the volume of campaigns and look at the business impact we were able to drive. It’s my favorite time of year to reassess based on our stated strategy and tweak our tactics to match. But can you really get a good handle on the business impact [...] [...]

An Interview with Sean Geehan, CEO and Founder Geehan Group

I met Sean at a recent ITSMA Marketing Leadership forum. Many of his ideas really hit home for me so I wanted to share these with you. He has a forthcoming book that I am also really looking forward to reading called the B2B Executive Playbook where he will be talking about how to create [...] [...]