Marketing Craftmanship

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How to Grow Your B2B Firm by Making Every Employee a Sales Rep

Marketing Craftmanship

Many B2B firms – in legal, accounting, technology, financial services and consulting disciplines – employ at least one rainmaker, typically a founding member, who brings in the lion’s share of new business. Seek Cross-Selling Opportunities – The practitioner assigned to an account is the steward of that relationship.

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How To Make Marketing An Invaluable Function

Marketing Craftmanship

” At small and mid-sized businesses, the heads of marketing rarely receive performance-based compensation related to financial results or related to any quantitative metrics directly associated with company performance. My guidance is neither unique nor comprehensive.

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Confucius Say: Your Case Studies are Worthless

Marketing Craftmanship

The most noteworthy article on B2B selling was published in a 1966 Harvard Business Review article (#66213). In “How to Buy /Sell Professional Services,” author Warren J. Wittreich explains the differences between extrinsic and intrinsic selling. I do…and I understand.

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Diet, Exercise And Marketing: Self-Imposed Obstacles That Ensure Failure

Marketing Craftmanship

In both cases, companies can mistakenly believe that producing and sharing content, or consistently emailing information to prospects, is a guaranteed fast track to higher market response and business growth. Marketing should not be ignored or reduced when business is good, nor should it be applied only as triage when business declines.

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Peter Drucker on “The Four Roles of the CFO”

Marketing Craftmanship

In the early 1990s, Highlander Consulting was engaged by Phibro Energy to help introduce energy derivatives to Chief Financial Officers at corporations with substantial exposure to fluctuations in oil, gasoline and jet fuel prices. The CFO as Productivity Manager: “There is a third CFO function, which is managing money for the business.

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Marketing Failure at Professional Services Firms: Who’s to Blame?

Marketing Craftmanship

In its report, 2015 Professional Services Marketing Priorities , Hinge examined current business challenges and approaches to implementing marketing initiatives at small and medium-sized firms, with annual revenues ranging from less than $5 million to more than $100 million. Activity without Purpose or Accountability.

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What the US Marines Can Teach Your B2B Firm about Marketing and Sales

Marketing Craftmanship

Many B2B firms – in legal, accounting, financial services and consulting disciplines – employ at least one rainmaker, typically a founding member, who brings in the lion’s share of new business. “Every Employee a Sales Rep” should be fully ingrained across a company’s work force, from the front desk to the corner office.

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