Chris Koch

MARCH 18, 2011

Now, you may think that because I’m using revenue and thought leadership together in the same sentence that I’m going to reveal some secret way to measure the link between the white paper you published last month and the complex solution sale you make six months from now. Alas, no such magic metric exists. But hold the beverages.

Work Management 100

Work Management Thought Leadership Marketing Management Paper 100

Chris Koch

OCTOBER 22, 2010

We should care more about lead management automation in B2B marketing. We have fewer and fewer outlets to do the heavy lifting of thought leadership for us by featuring our subject matter experts in in-depth analytical articles. This is where we as marketers need to provide more content—but not sales content. What do you think?

Lead Management 100

Lead Management Marketing Management Automation Marketing Automation Services 100

Chris Koch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

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.

Thought Leadership 100

Thought Leadership B2B Thought Leadership Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency 100

Chris Koch

JANUARY 22, 2010

We track the marketing mix (including PR) over time against trends in sales. So if you buy that leap of logic, let’s say that blogs are another channel, like PR, in a marketing mix designed to familiarize customers and prospects with our companies and us. But you’re not going to like them. Jumping through ROI hoops. What do you think?

Social Media 100

Social Media ROI Lead Ranking RSS 100

Chris Koch

JULY 16, 2010

For example, in the three categories I’ve looked at so far (there are six categories altogether), we have one company using analytics to predict customer buying patterns (and this ain’t diapers or laundry detergent, ladies and gents—we’re talking six-figure jumbles of complex products and services here). Image via Wikipedia. Tweet This Post.

B2B Thought Leadership 100

B2B Thought Leadership Thought Leadership Peer-to-peer Wikipedia 100

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.

Planning 100

Planning Work Management Paid Search Agency B2B Thought Leadership 100