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Digital Marketing’s Massive Measurement Lies

Digital B2B Marketing

When you report this as a sale driven by marketing, you are taking credit for a sale even though marketing didn’t cause it. Like view-through reporting, marketing influenced revenue, sales or leads counts who your marketing had the chance to reach, without any indication that your marketing made a difference in the outcome.

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A Brief Marketing Break: #NicheAmnesty and 14 Things About Me

Digital B2B Marketing

To stop with the sales, the marketing or the technology, and share a bit more about who we are when we don’t put on a public face. I’m analytical. I started my career in analytical disciplines. When I put on a media planning and buying hat, this and my analytical side drive planning. Food is important.

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7 Characteristics of Tomorrow’s Best B2B Marketers

Digital B2B Marketing

You must understand and appreciate the importance of finance, sales, talent management, supply chain, product development and more to the business. Analytically Inclined Marketing is a data-driven discipline. From increasing brand awareness or to driving the sales pipeline, analysis will uncover new opportunities.

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Buyers to Marketers: Don’t Call Me, I’ll Call You

Digital B2B Marketing

So your sales consultant can contact me? The marketing automation machine lives on a diet of email and your sales process is built on the telephone. I am a digital and B2B marketer with a background in online media and analytics. “Why do you want my email and phone number again? No thanks, I’ll pass.”

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The Importance of Woozles in B2B Marketing

Digital B2B Marketing

With complex buying processes, multiple stakeholders, and a high touch sales process, how important is a brand? It is important to remember the interaction with your sales team, one-to-one, will have a tremendous impact on your woozle, but it is not the only factor. And what does that have to do with a woozle? About Eric Wittlake.

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It’s Not Rational, B2B Marketing Needs to Get Emotional!!

Digital B2B Marketing

A challenge faced by sales and marketing is the emotions that matter are not the easy ones to create. Here are some of the stronger and more powerful emotions at play in B2B marketing and sales: Trust. Will your sales and marketing address these emotional needs, or will you rely on rational positioning? About Eric Wittlake.

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Five Marketing Changes You Need to Make

Digital B2B Marketing

Through the sales and negotiation dance, the cards were slowly revealed one at a time, with you and your prospect jockeying for advantage through the entire process. I am a digital and B2B marketer with a background in online media and analytics. This change has turned demand creation upside down. Your traditional cards are gone.