01
2013Do you really know what’s working and what isn’t in your sales, marketing and product areas?
I had a very interesting and enlightening conversation today with a consultant who works for the company that developed my website. She asked me to tell her who my target audience was and who I was trying to reach. I explained to her that my target audiences were medium to large-sized organizations that were struggling with poor sales and marketing alignment, effectiveness and productivity. She…
24
2013
Is your company message on target?
This week’s blog post was influenced by a couple of different resources and both came from two different LinkedIn discussions. The first came from a link that Michael Cannon provided from some research that his Silver Bullet Group did called “Customer Communication Effectiveness Index” (www.silverbulletgroup.com/research). The second came from a link in a discussion that I currently have running in the Sales / Marketing Executives…
18
2013
How Important is Sales Enablement to Your Organization?
What exactly is Sales Enablement anyway? Well, there are two really good definitions that I like to quote. The first definition is provided by the Forrester Group: “Sales Enablement is a strategic, ongoing process that equips all client-facing employees with the ability to consistently and systematically have a valuable conversation with the right set of customer stakeholders at each stage of the customer’s problem-solving life…
02
2013
Great Things Happen When People Collaborate
I’m not sure whether you have noticed the number of discussions, articles, webinars and postings around the whole concept of collaborating. Obviously, there is a lot of value in being able to do just that and it comes out in a number of different ways. One of the ways that we see collaboration working a lot is through the creation of something. That something could…
20
2013
Top 10 Reasons Why Your Marketing Team is Failing You and How To Fix Them
My good friend Michael Cannon, who is the CEO of the Silver Bullet Group (www.silverbulletgroup.com), is clearly one of the top people in the industry that I believe consistently has the inside track on what Marketing organizations can do to be more effective. With his permission, I am presenting his article and hope that you, too, will become a follower of Michael and the Silver Bullet…
22
2013
It’s not about the Quantity of the Content you provide, it’s all about the QUALITY!
Is your organization drowning in content or collateral that your sales or marketing departments have created? If so, you’re not alone. I’ve spoken to numerous organizations who have confessed that they spend about as much time searching for the right content within their own organization as they do in front of a prospect selling! There are a couple of reasons for this. One reason is…
28
2013
Don’t Shoot the Messenger!
Or: Why Feedback Loops are Critical to Good Sales & Marketing Content. It is clear that one of the major issues facing sales and marketing organizations is they don’t know what is working and what isn’t, with regards to the quality and usefulness of the content that is created. Whether it is the marketing department, sales department, or sales training department, they often create…
03
2012Are you keeping up with your content?
I was thinking recently about the number of challenges a company’s marketing department faces each and every day. In addition to such expected tasks as branding, advertising, lead generation and the creation of a firm’s marketing collateral, many marketers now also are charged with social media strategy and content development. The world has changed dramatically in the past five years. Consumers expect good quality and…