Here are a couple of BHAG ideas: Differentiate your company with a compelling and differentiated value proposition. It’s the season for wrapping up the old year and prepping for the next. hope you are as excited about the potential of the coming year as I am, particularly as it pertains to how you can transform your marketing organization. Here are six ideas to get you started: 1. Understand your sales lead requirements. If you want to learn how to do this, read our article, How Many Sales Leads Do You Need. Tune or replace your sales model. What constitutes a sales-ready lead. MORE >>

Make sure that you have a brand promise that is clear and differentiated. If there is one thing that aggravates the modern B2B company, it is the constantly lengthening sales cycle.  Everyone, from CEO to sales VP to sales rep, suffers from this problem and wants to know what to do about it.  The future of your company (and its stock price) may depend on getting revenue in the door faster. What exactly do I mean by the term “sales cycle”? The classic definition is “the total time elapsed from the buyer’s first contact with your organization until the sale closes. Of MORE >>

Make it unique – Make sure your PR strategy is in complete alignment with your differentiation and unique selling proposition. Every B2B company has its own identity, target market and products or services.  But all have one thing in common.  Each wants to be perceived as a leader in its chosen market space, and each wants to gain as much publicity as possible while spending the least amount of time and money. This is true for our Fusion Marketing Partners clients, and it is equally true for your organization. Make it personal – There are two important ways to make your PR personal. MORE >>

didn’t reproduce the boilerplate verbatim; I translated and expanded on the differentiators there. As a result, the new content lines up with the positioning we chose, and, as we add more pages to our new site, we’ll have more and more content that consistently expresses the key differentiators that make us a unique choice in the marketplace. You convene some hasty brainstorming sessions and your marketing or PR person (if you have one) knocks it out like a quick and painful homework assignment and, after a few revisions, it’s baked. Congratulations. MORE >>

Creating a compelling and differentiated brand for your products and/or services is hard work but it is essential to revenue and profitability. As B2B marketing outsource providers , we get to hear some interesting statements about marketing. Some of these statements indicate a philosophy that can be detrimental to achieving your marketing and sales objectives. If you hear any of your internal personnel saying any of the following, consider it a red flag and address the issue right away. Why should we spend any more time working on the website? That’s what our sales team is for. MORE >>