In this week’s episode of SearchChat, we interview Mark Schaefer, co-host of Marketing Companion Podcast, on what it means to make companies more human. What does he reveal? That the…
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Five ways business buying is changing: Ignore these at your peril
If you’re a B2B marketer, especially a services provider, your environment is about to be upended. Customers are changing, and so are the ways they buy. I’ve been struck recently…
Read MoreWhen B2B Personalization is Too Hard to Implement
I had a conversation several weeks ago with a large data company, discussing behavior based personalization. The VP of Marketing heard me out for a few minutes, and then said…
Read MoreOutrun Your Competitors With AI
There’s an old joke about two guys walking through the woods. All of a sudden they see a bear, and the bear starts moving towards them. The first guy sits…
Read More12 tips for successful lead qualification
B2B marketers understand the importance of qualifying a lead before it goes to a sales person, but sometimes the qualification process can get tricky. Today, most established companies assign the…
Read MoreAre you connecting your marketing to business results?
I was at the Marketing Analytics Summit a few weeks back, and talked to a lot of people who felt that: Measurement was really important Measurement was really, really hard…
Read MoreIs your personalization for your visitors… or for you?
Let’s view personalization through your visitor’s eyes Anyone who has kept up with me on just about any social media platforms knows I’m all about music, and my guilty pleasure…
Read MoreHow are you managing the changing nature of B2B customers?
What do customers want, and are you delivering? Ask a business executive and they’ll tell you that everything they do is for their customers. Which is all well and good,…
Read MoreVoice Engine Optimization’s Growing Importance
While VEO — voice engine optimization — isn’t critical yet for most B2B businesses, it’s importance is clearly growing, even for those firms thataren’t currently feeling its impact. To date,…
Read MoreBig B2B ideas from the #B2BSMX conference
Last summer, I picked up a score of great ideas from the FlipMyFunnel conference in Boston. This year, the conference has joined forces with two other B2B niche conferences to…
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