The 2 Most Common Mistakes in Partner Recruitment Campaigns

The 2 Most Common Mistakes in Partner Recruitment Campaigns

Like many B2B marketing agencies, even though we’re a professional services business and don’t sell or re-sell technology, our firm gets marketed to regularly by companies looking to recruit us as a channel partner. Most of these pitches inevitably revolve around the...
10 Must-Haves for Your Next Creative Brief

10 Must-Haves for Your Next Creative Brief

A good creative brief is the foundation for an effective marketing campaign. In the face of deadlines, however, and at the normal, torrid pace of modern marketing, creative briefs are often viewed as an extra step, an annoyance, and an unnecessary obstacle to getting...
8 Tips for Working with a Smaller Marketing Budget

8 Tips for Working with a Smaller Marketing Budget

When a marketing budget get cut, certain line items tend to get immediate scrutiny: media spend, headcount, events. However, simply slashing spend – while quick and dramatic – can have a detrimental effect on leads, pipeline, and revenue. There are more creative...
The Case for Allowing Personal Emails on Lead Gen Forms

The Case for Allowing Personal Emails on Lead Gen Forms

Should you allow prospects to enter a personal email address when they fill out lead gen forms?  B2B marketers seem divided on the question.  In a recent LinkedIn poll, almost half of the respondents (46%) indicated they’d rather force prospects to enter...
How Quickly Should I Suspend or Delete Non-Responsive Leads?

How Quickly Should I Suspend or Delete Non-Responsive Leads?

A client asks: How long should a lead be chronically non-responsive before they’re marked as “marketing suspended”?  What best practices should we put in place? There are multiple, legitimate reasons to suspend or even delete non-responsive leads from your...
When Should I Stop Nurturing a Lead?

When Should I Stop Nurturing a Lead?

A client asks: “I know the answer is probably “it depends” but curious if you think there’s a best practice for how many follow-up nurture emails to send TOFU content syndication leads before you stop due to non-engagement?” My response: We typically...