Is your marketing budget disappearing in events/webinars that generate ‘senior’ CXO meetings that never close? The best way for a B2B CMO to keep her stakeholders – the CEO/VP-Sales happy is by doing events (& webinars) where they get to pump the flesh of prospect CXOs. Today’s version of the event is the webinar. Typically,…
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How can you understand your company’s SMarketing culture and move the needle? B2B companies end up being one of these 3 – outbound, inbound, or ‘statsis’-bound. They may try balancing but usually end up having a culture that tips towards being either inbound, or outbond, or god-forbid – stasis-bound. Inbound – led by thought leader-CEOs,…
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6 ideas on SMarketing interactions that can’t be ignored! 1) In B2B, Sales and Marketing are getting tied to the hip with joint accountability & joint execution. You are jointly responsible for each other’s targets! Learn to understand & work together even if you’re not BFFs. 2) Try experimenting and reinforcing whatever works. Don’t get…
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Time to obliterate the artificial differences between Sales & Marketing? They are the Korean ‘yin & yang’ – whose forms may be different – but the objective is the same. Both the functions are about thinking & executing on bringing profits & revenues for the company. ‘ Smarketing‘ is a way to integrate sales & marketing…
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