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3 Key Factors to Choosing the Right B2B Marketing Consultant

B2B Marketing Traction

The list of superlatives used by B2B marketing consultants goes on and on ( and on ) today. How do you choose a B2B marketing consultant that can get you the results you want and more ? Great marketing consultants focus on client results. Great marketing consultants don’t offer cookie-cutter solutions.

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Does Your B2B Marketing Consultant Have an Agenda?

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One of the trademarks of my consulting practice is that I bring a detailed marketing agenda to client meetings. You’d think this would be a given for B2B marketing consultants, but unfortunately it’s not. Marketing Planning Role of the CMO analysis b2b marketing plans results'

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5 Skills Your Marketing Consultant Must Have

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Marketing is changing fast, and the changes require new skills on the part of marketing consultants and other providers. I’ve heard about and observed many marketing “fails” in my years as a marketing professional in the software industry and as a marketing consultant at New Incite. Storytelling ability.

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Is Your B2B Marketing Consultant Ethical?

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I had lunch recently with CPA Lynne Leavitt of Brakensiek Leavitt Pleger LLP , The Eclectic Accountants & Business Consultants , and Maureen Bernstein of Kaercher Campbell & Associates Insurance Brokerage. But marketing and consulting don’t have a requirement. Your consultant? We actually talked about – gasp!

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6 Reasons I Love Being a Marketing Consultant

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I made the decision to begin a consulting company focused on providing marketing solutions and founded New Incite in April of 1997. No matter what the consulting assignment is, if I can provide new insight for their marketing or business and incite them to positive change, I have succeeded. I focus on solutions.

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Does Your Marketing Consultant Have Bench Strength?

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Does your marketing consultant have the connections and network to make your projects happen cost-effectively, the right way, with “the right people on the bus”? How can you assess your marketing consultant’s resourcefulness or “bench strength”? The answer is “Yes!”

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Is Your Social Media Consultant an Expert or a Wannabe?

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Just as “SEO Experts” created themselves overnight after reading a few how-to blog posts online, many consultants who call themselves social media “experts” have little or no real experience. They figure if they’re on Facebook they’re experts. Plus, social media is kid stuff, right?