Marketing Craftmanship

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Branded Interviews: Your Pathway to “Enlightened”? Thought Leadership

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But the end-product is well worth all that work; producing evergreen content with unmatched credibility, and countless marketing and sales applications. Very often, high profile individuals do accept invitations to be interviewed simply because, like most people, they enjoy telling their story, and sharing their ideas.

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Should Marketing Automation Customers be Pre-Qualified?

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That longstanding production method was made obsolete over a 5-year period, with development of “ What You See Is What You Get ” screen technology, combined with the invention of laser printers and graphic design software such as PagerMaker. As an industry, Marketing Automation is in trouble for that reason.

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Are Pitch Letters The Cinderella Of Content Marketing?

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It may involve a product or service shortcoming that puts them at a competitive disadvantage or a new idea that can reduce operating costs. The research goal is to identify a problem or opportunity that’s likely to be of great interest to senior management. Make sure that it’s always related to your own firm’s core capabilities.

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Peter Drucker on “The Four Roles of the CFO”

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The CFO as Productivity Manager: “There is a third CFO function, which is managing money for the business. Also think about the consequences if it doesn’t work…So the chief financial adviser basically is a conscience, a financial conscience.”. I’m not talking of the treasury function; that is only a small part of it.

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An End to B2B Social Media Madness

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Every company needed desktop publishing; corporate bean counters promoted the cost savings; anyone who learned how to use the software claimed to be a graphic designer, and the trend resulted in the most unprofessional and ineffective marketing & sales collateral every produced.

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Your Marketing Content: Is it Fake News?

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Our client was overjoyed with the media exposure, but we felt less than honorable, and resolved that we would never use market research to promote a client’s product or service unless we believed the supporting methodology had sufficient rigor. And over the years we’ve lost client work as a result of that position.

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Confucius Say: Your Case Studies are Worthless

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Extrinsic selling is a “trust me” approach, employed by a great number of B2B product and service providers. Conversely, intrinsic selling does not require a prospective client to base its selection of a seller based on work done for others. No leap of faith required.