Marketing Craftmanship

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Should Marketing Automation Customers be Pre-Qualified?

Marketing Craftmanship

For decades, the ONLY way to produce any type of printed material – ranging from sales & marketing brochures, to annual reports and informational flyers – involved a multi-step, time / people-intensive, costly process requiring a copywriter, graphic designer, a typesetter and a printing press.

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How To Make Marketing An Invaluable Function

Marketing Craftmanship

Here’s how marketing leaders can begin to establish a new way of working together with the sales team, and in the process, improve their company’s performance, as well as their professional stature and job tenure: • Make yourself part of the sales team. Gain a firsthand understanding of the sales process.

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Are Pitch Letters The Cinderella Of Content Marketing?

Marketing Craftmanship

Many marketing professionals argue that marketing automation technologies enable them to drive engagement by monitoring how specific individuals within their target audiences react to their content. Often eliminates or avoids any type of competitive shootout or request-for-proposal process altogether.

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Make the Short List…Or Die Trying

Marketing Craftmanship

For most B2B companies, there’s no reliable way to predict when a prospective client will purchase their product or engage their services, regardless of what their “marketing automation” expert promises. Overlooking or taking shortcuts in what admittedly is a tedious task will submarine any effort to build top-of-mind awareness.