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Apologies if, to the more cynical amongst you, this post seems simply self-serving and a thinly veiled excuse for a sales pitch. Bear with me as I explain … A few weeks ago we received a request from a potential client that we help her “sell” her boss (the CMO)… Read More
In a recent edition of his newsletter “Business Common Sense,” Denny Hatch writes: One rule I came to late in life: You cannot judge good direct marketing; it judges you. In other words, good direct marketing does what it was designed to do. It doesn’t matter if you hate it/don’t… Read More
Say you’re in the public relations business. A friend who’s a Web designer e-mails you and says she has a client who’s looking for a new PR agency, and is willing to make an introduction. How much is that introduction worth to you? $50? $100? That’s the premise behind Saleconx,… Read More
Just read a very insightful post over at Garth’s World, the new blog by Garth Moulton, one of the co-founders of Jigsaw, the wildly successful online business contact directory. In his post Help Wanted: Easter Bunny, Garth rails against companies that have an unrealistic expectation of what new sales hires… Read More
Here’s another B2B Marketing Web resource you should bookmark or subscribe to – it’s a blog and newsletter hosted by NetLine, the people who manage the Tradepub content syndication network. Last month, I was flattered to be asked to join their roster of contributing bloggers. There’s an RSS feed available,… Read More
I received an unsolicited copy of Deliver Magazine this week. I don’t get a lot of business mail in general, and, as a certified junk mail junkie, I look at everything. It took me more than a few seconds, however, to discern the focus of the publication (more on that… Read More
Two licensing models are taking the software industry by storm at present: one is Open Source, the other is SaaS (Software As A Service). From a marketing perspective, both share similar challenges, the most prominent of which is converting users of free software to paying customers. Many commercial open source… Read More