B2B Thought Leadership with Malcolm Friedberg

Through these special blog postings, our goal is to offer advice and insights from top B2B marketers. It is my pleasure to introduce you to Malcolm Friedberg, principal at Left Brain Marketing. He has more than 20 years of marketing, sales and business development experience in a broad range of B2B industries.

Malcolm has built [...]

So the Nature of the B2B Buyer Is Changing? So What?: Understanding the New Sales Funnel Via Meg Heuer of SiriusDecisions

Adam Needles digs into implications of the changing B2B buyer and leverages insights from a leading analyst who has been closely following the changing B2B marketing [...]

Email is the Foundation, but Not the Holy Grail for B2B Marketers

I was thrilled to see in the recent UK Internet Advertising Bureau’s survey that email continues to be the leading choice in terms of usage and success within B2B marketing tactics. For those who understand the power of email, this is no surprise. Emailing is extremely cost effective, and done with an appropriate level of [...]

Judging Marketing Automation Vendors Based on Their Approach to Helping Marketers Address the ‘Brave New World’ of B2B Marketing

Adam Needles shares an excerpt from a guest blog piece for the ReachForce blog on the Engage B2B marketing automation platform and how it is different from other leading [...]

Keeping Your B2B Marketing Content and Campaigns Relevant by Leveraging Buyer Context

What should drive our content and campaigns in B2B marketing? Should we use a white paper to generate leads? What should we say in a follow-up e-mail from a tradeshow? How should our search engine optimization and lead nurturing integrate in our overall marketing strategy? Adam Needles discusses the buyer dialogue context and insights from author Rober Jolles on the B2B buyer’s decision-making process as context for focusing marketing content and campaigns and ensuring their [...]