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If you’re involved in creating demand gen strategy for your company, here’s a recently launched Website that deserves to be bookmarked: https://www.demandgenreport.com/ Demand Gen Report delivers case studies and benchmark data for both B2C and B2B audiences. It’s the brainchild of Andrew Gaffney, a former publisher of B2B publications in… Read More
Two e-mails arrived in my inbox recently that merit dissection. They’re from two competitors – Oracle and Netsuite, respectively – and both promote Webinars that are thinly disguised versions of “Why You Should Buy Our CRM Product and Not Our Competitor’s”. Topic aside, however, I’d wager that head-to-head the Netsuite… Read More
At CDI, we’ve been preaching the virtues of lead nurturing since we first published our white paper on “Lead Recycling” back in 2002. Back then, lead nurturing was more a philosophy, a way of marketing, than it was a defined tactic. Now lead nurturing is a hot topic, primarily because… Read More
Earlier this week I was interviewed by Matt Heinz, a marketing veteran who writes about media, brand, and marketing strategy on his blog, Matt on Marketing. We discussed topics such as the biggest change in marketing in the last 5 years, and the first step in creating an effective marketing… Read More
Web seminars continue to be a mainstay B2B demand gen tactic, especially in the technology space. Up until now, Webinars have come in two flavors: the live event, broadcast at a specific date and time, and the archived event, hosted on the advertiser’s site or by a third party for… Read More
Imagine a spectrum. On one end are products in mature categories, products for which the need is readily apparent and recognized by your target audience. On the other are products in more nascent categories, products for which the need may not be so apparent — i.e. prospects may not even… Read More
Denny Hatch writes a great piece in the latest edition of his newsletter, “Denny Hatch’s Business Common Sense” about the madness of trying to use direct marketing to build brand: The examples he quotes (what he charmingly calls “products of epic lunacy in direct marketing”) are mostly consumer-based and related… Read More