Content marketing and the inevitable sales objections
Into every sales cycle a little rain must fall – prospects get cold feet, someone raises an objection, the IT group puts up a roadblock. In her excellent book eMarketing Strategies for the Complex...
View ArticleContent marketing: What’s your subtext?
In theater, subtext is the message that the actor is delivering beyond or behind the explicit dialog. It’s an important core of so-called method acting. What does subtext have to do with content...
View ArticleWhere are the social media failure stories?
I’ve attended a number of webinars about using social media in marketing, and keep hearing wonderful success stories — sometimes stories about the same companies over and over. (Zappos again? Really?)...
View ArticleSurvey says: Don’t trash those white papers yet
I love it when research comes out to back up my positions. A couple weeks back I posted a blog called Old Marketing Channels Never Die – the premise being that with all of the buzz about social...
View ArticleThe curse of the familiar
Sometimes the greatest value I can offer a client is a fresh, outside perspective. For example, I worked with a client recently that was making a major proposal to a customer. As I talked with them,...
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