One of the buzz marketing phrases doing the rounds is “Inbound Marketing” and we find that many brands and businsses hope inbound marketing will fulfil all their hopes for new enquiries and drive up the sales funnel effortlessly. It doesn’t work like that. There certainly are many agencies who sell themselves as inbound or content marketing specialists. [...]
Three case studies on how you can improve your pitch to your contact’s boss – work, collaborate and learn together. Brian Carroll wrote a super blog post about this subject and came out with solid suggestions about how to get executive support for your proposal or project. Working with larger organisations means that budgetary control is not [...]
Combine Nick Burcher’s new book with Jeremiah Owyang’s slides and learn how to leverage the web for your demand generation. Reading this slide deck from Jeremiah Owyang it chimes nicely with Nick Burcher’s new book on Paid Owned Earned. Nick first told us about his ideas back in June 2011 and we wrote them up. [...]
Reading John McTigue’s lovely rant about How to shop for inbound marketing services made us smile. He is a client side marketer. He says all the catch phrases we spout “partnership” and “lasting relationship”. But read carefully and agencies cna learn how best to present themselves to a new client. He writes The companies and [...]
Do relationships matter more than marketing or advertising for B2B? There is some truth in this but it is often over-stated. Many web experts talk about the glorious ‘free’ things that come to them just because of their relationship and web presence – but we believe that without a proven track record in the area of [...]
We are members of the Open Rights Group, ORG and their really helpful newsletter gives updates on the lobbying work they do to preserve and promote your rights in the digital age. For a £5 monthly subscription, you can support their excellent work – from which we all benefit. Here’s an extract from their recent [...]
Pretty websites count for squat online – you need inbound leads and new business prospects for your sales team. Read this letter we recently sent declining a new business opportunity. Thanks for giving us the opportunity to bid for your website redesign. I am sure the guys in the Philippines are really cost-effective and their [...]
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