Chris Koch
FEBRUARY 11, 2011
There’s lots of talk out there these days about the need for a technology guru within the B2B marketing department. Maybe I’m splitting hairs here, but I wonder about the long-term need for a marketing technologist. In the short term, I think marketing has a lot of catching up to do in terms of technology. What do you think?
Chris Koch
JULY 31, 2009
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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Chris Koch
JULY 24, 2009
I’ve been working on a report for ITSMA clients this week about analytics and it got me thinking about the proverbial bigger picture of B2B marketing. We know from our research that we in marketing don’t do much with analytics—i.e., Even rarer is the ability to carry those analytics all the way through to a sale.
Chris Koch
JULY 31, 2009
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.
Chris Koch
JULY 24, 2009
I’ve been working on a report for ITSMA clients this week about analytics and it got me thinking about the proverbial bigger picture of B2B marketing. We know from our research that we in marketing don’t do much with analytics—i.e., Even rarer is the ability to carry those analytics all the way through to a sale.
Chris Koch
OCTOBER 22, 2010
We should care more about lead management automation in B2B marketing. It isn’t because the software for automating this stuff has improved, or because it’s available through the cloud so you don’t have to deal with those people over in IT. This is where we as marketers need to provide more content—but not sales content.
Chris Koch
DECEMBER 28, 2010
That’s why employees and subject matter experts should be on the front lines of social media rather than marketers or PR people. External social media marketing is more important than internal social media collaboration. ROI should be measured on a higher level—as in the ROI of all of marketing to the business.
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