B2B Marketing Traction

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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.

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3 Key Factors to Choosing the Right B2B Marketing Consultant

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

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A good marketing consultant delivers solutions, implementation and results. Another consultant was not only investigating but developing a detailed business plan for a third product. Marketing Soapbox consultant marketing results' But sometimes we have to deliver some not-so-pleasant news to clients. Your baby’s ugly.

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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. Creating a marketing agenda requires forethought.

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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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