B2B Marketing Traction

article thumbnail

5 Skills Your Marketing Consultant Must Have

B2B Marketing Traction

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.

article thumbnail

6 Reasons I Love Being a Marketing Consultant

B2B Marketing Traction

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Your Baby’s Ugly and Other Difficult Things Marketing Consultants Have to Tell Clients

B2B Marketing Traction

A good marketing consultant delivers solutions, implementation and results. I once had a technology company owner tell me he wanted to run a $26,000 ad in Time magazine, with regional distribution (to save money), featuring his black box. Marketing Soapbox consultant marketing results' Your baby’s ugly.

article thumbnail

Is Your Social Media Consultant an Expert or a Wannabe?

B2B Marketing Traction

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?

article thumbnail

Is Your Marketing Consultant Strategic? Tactical? Or Both?

B2B Marketing Traction

Does your marketing consultant ask the right strategic questions? His business is not a technology or manufacturing company – the industries I normally target – but he wanted the perspective of an outsider to his industry. Why did the marketing consultants fail to provide recommendations for improvement?

article thumbnail

7 Questions to Ask When You Hire a Marketing Consultant

B2B Marketing Traction

Remember the ad where the two big company consultants sat in front of a corporate business executive’s desk, and when the executive asked them, “What do you do?” ” the consultants said, “Err, we don’t do anything…”? What should you look for when hiring a marketing consultant?

article thumbnail

Your Facebook Company Page: How to Show Posts by Others

B2B Marketing Traction

If you’re puzzling over why you no longer see posts by others directly on your Facebook company page, puzzle no more. New Incite provides set-up, training, consulting and on-going execution services for social media. Facebook simply made yet another change that affects the way we manage pages. Change is good.

Facebook 100