Content Marketing is very much a mainstream marketing activity these days, in nearly all segments of the marketplace. It’s particularly important of tech savvy buyers looking for education in a particular product category. It’s rise in importance corresponds with the general degradation of outbound marketing response rates, along with Internet-driven prospect preferences toward more control […]
B2B Social Selling and Marketing Strategy
As we sit here in 2017, sales and marketing is still the same – and totally different. In my long career that actual fundamentals of sales and marketing haven’t changed a bit (contrary to the belief of some). However, the platforms, technologies and tactical methods have changed and will continue to change dramatically. This is […]
The Shelf Life of the Tech Company CMO
This is a topic that probably isn’t debated all that much; except for among software and hardware company CMOs & VPs of Marketing! But I think it’s an important management topic nonetheless. How long – and more importantly how effective – the top marketing executive of your company is will tell a lot about the […]
What the Heck is Customer Development?
The term “customer development” has been floating around for a number of years now, although it seems to have gotten more play in the last couple. Regardless, it’s one of the most common buzzwords added to the technology business vernacular in recent times. I lump it in the buzzword box with “agile”, “lean-(anything)”, “growth hacking”, […]
Software Go-To-Market Strategy and Tactics
It’s really hard to generalize what the very best approach to Go-to-Market is for a software product. Like most thing in technology marketing, it is highly dependent on the specifics of the situation. Are we talking about a startup or a billion dollar software company?–SaaS, Open Source or a mobile app?–a major new breakthrough application […]
