LinkedIn as a company is an innovator jumping into a new marketing automation market, leveraging their recent Bizo acquisition.  This is worthy of study. Here are strengths of the LinkedIn offer relative to that of marketing automation: Their ability to target...
Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, recently said, ‘Data is the key competitive differentiator in today’s business environment.’ I believe he is right. Data is the star of the 2015 sales and marketing show; enterprises will generate new business, optimize...
Here is a valuable blog today from what appears to be a US head of sales in how he views marketing in his business in a tech company contrasting to a non-tech company – it can be inferred from the post that marketing’s compensation is getting tied to revenue...
At the SiriusDecisions’ (#SDS11) sold out conference featuring over 750 people, this year’s keynote featured both the head of sales Jerry Rulli and Colleen Langevin who heads marketing in a dialogue around historic performance, current activity, and a single go...
This post is aimed toward heads of marketing, heads of sales, general/division managers or CEOs. It’s specifically toward a head of marketing who is considering what measurable impact her/his team has on the business and is in a situation of implementing a marketing...
This is an expansion of an earlier post of the process steps involved in tying marketing investment to revenue and is a viewpoint from someone with real operational experience as head of marketing. Get CEO/GM and head of sales buy in to your objective which is to tie...
