2010

B2B Marketing Traction

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Be a Strategic Planning Action Hero with Micro-Strategies

B2B Marketing Traction

Tweet. Dave Logan, Co-Founder/Senior Partner of Culture Sync, Professor at the Marshall School of Business at USC, and C0-Author of the book Tribal Leadership , presented the opening keynote at the Association for Strategic Planning annual conference in Pasadena, California. In a little over an hour, Dave gave the audience of strategic planners a new model for jump-starting strategic plan implementation with his keynote speech.

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Create a 1-Page Marketing Plan

B2B Marketing Traction

Tweet. I like working from a one-page marketing plan for my clients and for my own business, whether or not we have a multi-page written plan as well. I used to use Microsoft Project to create a Gantt chart of the marketing plan timeline, but few of my clients had the program nor did they want to endure the learning curve in order to be able to use it.

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What Product Lifecycle (PLC) Means for B2B Inbound Marketing

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Tweet. One marketing tool to use in determining which marketing strategies and inbound marketing tactics will be most effective in B2B marketing planning is your product or service lifecycle stage. Over the lifetime of a product or service, you go through different stages of introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. Here are some examples of marketing strategies and inbound marketing tactics that are best suited to each stage.

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Improve Service with a Customer Touch Point Map

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Tweet. Have you ever bought a product or service where you were excited about your decision to buy (maybe after a rigorous buying process), only to be very disappointed by the delivery? It happens all the time. Buyers deal with a great sales person, but delivery is slow, installation sloppy, customer service doesn’t solve problems and/or accounting doesn’t understand what the customer is trying to communicate.

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1-Page SWOT Analysis with Action Items

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Tweet. A SWOT Analysis may have a simple presentation, but the analysis is the hard part. My clients have really appreciated this 1-page SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) Analysis with Action items. One CEO included it in her presentation to investors because it very clearly and transparently showed the company’s situation and what we planned to do to grow the business.

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Why B2B Marketers Need Blue Ocean Strategy

B2B Marketing Traction

Tweet. Competitive Analysis. We’ve been taught in business schools and business classes to analyze the competition! What products and services do they have that we do not? What markets do they serve that we do not? How are they positioned? What is their strategy? How do they perform and what is their price point? For a long time I’ve told my B2B clients that if they focus too much on their competition, they will be looking at their business and marketing strategy laterally.

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Stop Flushing Your Online Marketing Dollars Down the Toilet

B2B Marketing Traction

Tweet. What’s the point of spending money to drive traffic to your web site… …if you’re not getting a return on your investment? Several of our new B2B clients came to us with this very frustration. After years of hearing about the benefits of search engine optimization and/or pay per click advertising, business owners finally bit the bullet and invested in these tactics.