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The crisis of buyer information in B2B and how to fix it

Chris Koch

The “voluntary policing” being done by the ad industry today online is at best an uneasy truce with an internet public not yet bothered enough, too lazy, or too uniformed to do anything about shutting off the cookie oven for good. So how to stave off this impending crisis of buyer information? What do you think? If so, how?

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The crisis of buyer information in B2B and how to fix it

Chris Koch

The “voluntary policing” being done by the ad industry today online is at best an uneasy truce with an internet public not yet bothered enough, too lazy, or too uniformed to do anything about shutting off the cookie oven for good. So how to stave off this impending crisis of buyer information? What do you think? If so, how?

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How Do You Market Something That’s Worthless?

Chris Koch

I come from an industry (publishing) where the cost to produce the product has dropped to zero. Today, anyone can go to WordPress.com, set up a Web site, and begin publishing news and information to the world – for free. (I Pretend the Industrial Revolution Never Happened. It Won’t Stop with Virtual Goods.

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What Pisses off the Man Who is the Face of 3D Printing

Chris Koch

They retained the information better when they watched the videos than they did when I taught in person,” he recalls. When we think about the industrial supply chain, we can’t forget the resources that ultimately make it happen when they grow up: children. Viral How-Tos. Not that Pettis was a bad teacher.

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Why bother with thought leadership? Five questions and answers.

Chris Koch

When the consulting industry began soon thereafter, McKinsey took the academic journal model and applied it to its marketing, which resulted in the McKinsey Quarterly.The Quarterly is the first real example of thought leadership marketing. Is it only focused in knowledge intensive industries? Why did companies start focusing on it?

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How Manchester United Revolutionized Sports Marketing

Chris Koch

I would expect that most other similarly ill-informed, old-fart American Boomers who were raised on other sports like me might say the same thing (Stones fans, don’t look for a “London” team to root for because it doesn’t exist). There’s real money in fantasy sports, which has grown into a billion-dollar industry. Have a Backstory.

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The 2 questions on every buyer’s mind

Chris Koch

Assuming that you’ve done the necessary research to understand your target audience, that change can be on a personal, organizational, or industry level. These are the ideas that prompt buyers to think about change. These ideas aren’t necessarily about predicting the future or painting a picture of how it will look.