Chris Koch

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Four reasons to stop measuring marketing

Chris Koch

It’s time to declare marketing metrics a failure once and for all. It’s difficult to parse out the contribution that marketing makes to a sale and it’s even more difficult to get salespeople to spend the time figuring out/checking the box/giving credit in the quest to determine whether marketing played a role in making the sale.

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Four reasons to stop measuring marketing

Chris Koch

It’s time to declare marketing metrics a failure once and for all. It’s difficult to parse out the contribution that marketing makes to a sale and it’s even more difficult to get salespeople to spend the time figuring out/checking the box/giving credit in the quest to determine whether marketing played a role in making the sale.

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What are your best practices for "recession marketing?"

Chris Koch

My web analytics tell me that there are at least 100 people who care enough to let me into their e-mail boxes before deleting me. My CEO at ITSMA, Dave Munn is looking for stories about how marketers have come up with innovative ways to actually do things better during these tough times. What else are you doing to improve marketing?

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What are your best practices for “recession marketing?”

Chris Koch

My web analytics tell me that there are at least 100 people who care enough to let me into their e-mail boxes before deleting me. My CEO at ITSMA, Dave Munn is looking for stories about how marketers have come up with innovative ways to actually do things better during these tough times. What else are you doing to improve marketing?

Practices 100
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Why the volume and quality of interactions with customers has to pass for social media ROI

Chris Koch

We track the marketing mix (including PR) over time against trends in sales. This is what it would cost to place an ad in a magazine vs. the cost of getting the story placement. This is what it would cost to place an ad in a magazine vs. the cost of getting the story placement. Lots of variables there.

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Why our thought leadership is broken

Chris Koch

All of our talk about marketers becoming publishers is incomplete. Marketers, meanwhile, didn’t have a wall, so they filled their content with self-aggrandizing references to their own products and services that pissed off readers and sent them to other sources for advice. Marketing through association. Let me explain.