Marketing Craftmanship

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Each issue involves a frustrating hunt for timely information of genuine interest. Some firms avoid this pain by slapping their logo on boilerplate content purchased from a 3rd party, but those firms can pay a bigger price, in terms of brand damage. In fact, at many firms their client newsletter is a marketing albatross.

Newsletter 130

Newsletter B2B Thought Leadership B2B Thought Leadership 130

Marketing Craftmanship

JANUARY 27, 2015

The marketing profession has a reputation for sometimes using less than reliable market research to promote a point of view. Research integrity was an issue long before the internet became the platform for content marketing. and who determines whether the research results legitimately support the conclusions.

Research 100

Research Content Marketing Work Management Paid Search Agency 100

Marketing Craftmanship

JANUARY 20, 2017

The marketing profession has a reputation for sometimes using less than reliable market research to promote a point of view. With very little expectation that such shoddy market research would qualify for exposure in the financial press, and dreading inquiries from journalists asking about our research methodology, the press release went out.

Paid Search Agency 100

Paid Search Agency High Quality Lead Content Press 100

Marketing Craftmanship

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Prospective customers now turn to their personal networks and publicly available information — via digital and social media channels—to self-diagnose their problems and to self-prescribe their own solutions. At the upper limit, the responses ran as high as 70%. Failure to respond properly to the new vendor selection process.

B2B Thought Leadership 100

B2B Thought Leadership WOM B2B Marketing Thought Leadership 100

Marketing Craftmanship

JANUARY 10, 2015

This past September, the well-respected marketing firm, Peppercom, conducted in-depth research involving nearly 300 of the hedge fund industry’s largest firms, to measure how those funds are currently applying standard marketing tools & tactics including websites, social media, the financial press and advertising, one year after the JOBS Act.

Practices 100

Practices Planning Enterprise Management Transparency 100

Marketing Craftmanship

MARCH 27, 2013

The original purpose of white papers as a B2B marketing tactic was to produce objective information, packaged as quasi-academic research, that might validate a company’s or product’s value proposition. White papers jumped the shark when they became paid content.

Paper 100

Paper Paid Search Agency Advertorials Allocation 100