By Adam Needles, on January 8th, 2010
Given a challenging environment for B2B marketing today, where should a B2B marketer start? How can we get our arms around this ‘brave new world’? Adam Needles outlines a series of basics for B2B marketers to focus on to help rationalize their more-complex [...]
By Adam Needles, on September 2nd, 2009
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 [...]
By Adam Needles, on August 19th, 2009
Adam Needles presents working insights for ‘advanced’ lead scoring secrets that can help B2B marketers take their games to the next [...]
By Adam Needles, on August 6th, 2009
Adam Needles discusses improving the continuity of dialogue with the buyer as a way to achieve greater sales/marketing alignment. Part 1 of a 2 part series. This piece focuses on steps marketers can take in better planning for [...]
By Adam Needles, on July 31st, 2009
The current dialogue around sales/marketing mis-alignment comes at a watershed moment for this issue. To propel this dialogue, Adam Needles presents a round-up of perspectives from various sales and marketing-focused bloggers on best practices for and impact of sales/marketing [...]
By Adam Needles, on June 18th, 2009
It’s certainly critical as a marketer to improve one’s engagement with the customer, but what does that look like from the marketer’s end? What does this look like from a strategic and operational perspective? What does it mean to be an ‘engaged’ … and, ultimately, successful … marketer? Adam Needles discusses five best practices for being an ‘engaged’ [...]