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Don’t Make Me Play Whack-a-Mole with your Marketing Popups

B2B Marketing Traction

Not every piece of marketing data you find online is valid, and I like to know the source of the information to assess its validity. At the end of my review, I wanted to view the information about the survey methodology and process.

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Don’t Put B2B Marketing Tactics before Strategic Analysis

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Validate the need for your product or service. The first and foremost thing to do is validate the need for your product or service with the people you think will be using it. You’re not going to get where you’re going without the analysis at some point. Here’s what you need to do first.

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What Can a Outsource CMO Do for Your Startup Company?

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Validate your product or service concept through research and analysis. Maybe you’ve already validated your concept and done a branding exercise, and now you just need to make it happen. What can an Outsource Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) do for your startup?

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

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Stop the business planning: your new product idea is already being done or isn’t valid. Inventors create great products, but many don’t validate the need for the product prior to investing in developing a business plan, marketing and trying to sell their invention. Hopefully they will get it.

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Get the Right People on the Bus When You Go to Market

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Today with websites, online communities, and social networks, there are more cost effective and faster ways to get to qualified users of a new technology to validate the concept and user needs. Well before it’s time to launch your product, get the right people on your team to validate your technology and your concept.

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The # 1 Reason B2B Marketing Fails (Hint: It’s Not Tactical)

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Once you understand your customers’ pain and have the solution ( and validate that your solutions works ), you need to tell your audience you understand their pain. Maybe your product or service idea is born from your own experience with pain. Studies have shown that a majority of new product ideas come from existing customers. ).

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Don’t Waste B2B Marketing Dollars on PPC

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Up until as late as 2005, I did think a valid strategy for a company with no presence on the web was to jump start online lead generation with PPC. Go ahead – do a search – such as “Does PPC work?” ” Most of the answers you will find are from the service-providers who make money on PPC.

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