Strategic Piece Talks
Marketing & Sales Automation: Dos & Don'ts
This post covers common myths about marketing automation and some tips for optimizing your marketing and sales automation efforts.
Boots on the Ground: Sales In The Information Age
In this post, we take a look at these questions: What does “boots on the ground” sales mean in the information age and how are B2B salespeople adapting?
3 Ways to Keep Up with your Customers
Keeping up with your customers’ changing wants and needs can be time-intensive and daunting. Here are 3 ways to keep your marketing strategies relevant.
Managing Your Marketing Metrics
Focusing on the fewest number of most important marketing metrics, you can avoid overwhelm and draw more insightful conclusions about what really matters.
Why is Content Marketing Important?
What content marketing is and why it’s such a powerful tool that is used by large companies, businesses that are scaling up, and startups.
Can't I Just Hire a Marketing Intern for That?
Sometimes founders think their first marketing hire should be a marketing intern. We discuss why you need to re-think that, but also how interns can help.
Getting Past Fire Drills to Grow your Company
Five tips for founders and business leaders to stop managing by fire drills and start managing strategically.
8 Tips For Making Your Content Readable And Engaging
Eight tips to making your content readable and engaging so that it encourages your audience to stick around and heed your call to action.
Why An Editor Is Much More Than A Red Pen
Effective editing makes your content more appealing to humans and algorithms, and shows customers that you are knowledgeable, competent, and trustworthy.
Why Marketing Plans Fail
Melanie and Matt share their observations on why well-intentioned marketing plans often fail.
Do I Need Company Swag for Trade Shows?
If trade shows are in your marketing mix, check out this post on what makes effective swag along with helpful swag tips.
Retrofitting ABM To An 'Old School' Sales Team
This post focuses on implementing account based marketing to an “old school” B2B company.
When Setting Strategy, Remember Your Vowels
When setting your company strategy, use our AEIOU framework to surface potentially risky assumptions and ensure the strategy you build is robust.
Finding Strategic Peace
Helping you find your strategic peace – your calm and clarity – so you can get your marketing un-stuck.
Revenue Architecture to Align Marketing, Sales, & Service
Download our guide to help you think through your B2B revenue architecture so you can align your marketing, sales, and service teams and drive revenue.
Database Hygiene – A Very Sexy Topic Indeed
Why having "dirty data" can impact your people and your ability to generate revenue and what you can do to clean your database and keep it clean.
Improving the Customer Experience: Where to Start
Improving the customer experience can be a nebulous objective. In this blog, we talk about how to get started with CX plans at your company.
Content Marketing for the Uninspired
How to tackle content marketing when you're feeling uninspired (like I am).
Incentivizing Sales Performance
Many startups and early-stage businesses focus on product and testing. That’s great, up to a point. Incentivize your sales team to drive revenue growth.
Giving Them a Piece of the Action - Equity Compensation for Advisors
We explore the challenge of securing expert advice without having to pay in cash, and the pitfalls that can arise with equity compensation for advisors.