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    Why Lead Scoring and Nurturing is Like Teenage Sex

    I hosted three round table discussions at least week’s excellent Econsultancy B2B Digital Cream event on the subject of Lead Scoring and Nurturing, and the abiding conclusion was that Lead Scoring and Nurturing is - as one observer suggested - a lot like teenage sex: lots ...

    Why B2B Marketers Need to Stop Claiming That Their Solution is Better

    “Our Solution is Better”. It’s a claim made by many B2B technology marketers, based on a perceived feature set advantage. ...

    Vo-duh!-fone: Why taking customers for granted is never a good idea

    When you’ve been a customer for more than 20 years, you can sometimes get into the comfortable habit of assuming that the ...

    3 proven ways to shorten your average sales cycle

    The length of the average sales cycle is a concern for many B2B sales leaders, and with good reason: successfully shortening ...

    7 Essential Building Blocks to More Effective B2B Marketing

    According to a recent series of articles by Adam Needles, author of “Balancing the Demand Equation”, the current state of ...

    Are we really looking at a 75% reduction in sales heads by 2020?

    Gerhard Gschwandtner, publisher of Selling Power - in a characteristically provocative piece - recently predicted that the ...

    What is your marketing for?

    John Wanamaker - described by Wikipedia as the father of modern advertising, and a pioneer in marketing - is famously and ...

    Why you may need to redefine your competition

    Who (or what) does your company really compete against? For the majority of B2B product or service offerings, the answer is ...

    Why stalking your website visitors isn't a very good idea

    I recently received a LinkedIn message from someone whose profile I had accidently visited, saying something along the lines ...

    Sales Leaders: Are you really training your sales people to succeed?

    CSO Insights have just released their eagerly-awaited annual review of the state of sales performance - reflecting detailed ...