Yesterday in the 106 degree Arizona weather, we received a needed waterfall – SiriusDecisions unveiled their upgraded view of the latest demand waterfall model at their annual conference. With an array of color codes and arrows, the new direction is spot as it...
The Chief Marketing Officers from Cisco and from Xerox presented at today’s Philadelphia America Marketing Association (AMA) on “Changes and Challenges CMOs face” and I attended with about 100 others. Much of what they said reinforced recent observations I’ve had with...
Today’s MOCCA meeting in Washington DC covered what role marketing operations plays in B2B with a diverse set of companies and vendors in attendance. We discussed the scope of the marketing operations role, benchmarked data from a variety of analysts, and summarized...
Most organizations have a quantifiable goal toward improving KPIs and analytics on more closed marketing sourced revenue. An effective method to accomplish conversion improvement is to do a ‘win/loss’ analysis on specific areas of the buying process. One really...
Last week, I facilitated a lively marketing leader panel discussion for Andrew Gaffney’s Content2Conversion event which was an audience of 300 B2B marketers cross industry. The event was focused on understanding what types of content buyers were interested in...
For years, I’ve been raving publicly about LinkedIn and was one of the very early adopters in Silicon Valley of this technology. LinkedIn has some compelling newer offers to consider in the B2B segment. Many B2B Marketers have felt a bit burnt by prior years...
