Business Strategy & Insight

Eight Things to Know About Your Prospects

Today, marketers are digging deeper into understanding their buyers by learning more than what’s on the surface. Identifying characteristics beyond a simple profile can give you insights that can ultimately sharpen marketing messages, streamline your selling process, and optimize your marketing dollars so efforts aren’t wasted on selling the wrong message to the wrong audience.

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Active Learning, Local Involvement, and Beer: Q&A with Entrepreneur, VC Bill Jones

In the 30 years that I’ve worked in the tech and life science sectors in Atlanta, I’ve met some really smart people. In my “B2B Visions” series of posts, I am taking the opportunity to introduce you to some of them. Today, I have the pleasure of sharing a conversation I had with Bill Jones of local VC firm, TechOperators.

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Four Marketing Lessons from Television’s “Golden Age”

When I immigrated to the United States from the United Kingdom 34 years ago, I quickly realized that while we share some things in common culturally, in reality, a common language separates us! One of the first differences I noticed, and that still persists today, is how many American pop culture references—from television, movies and sports—creep into business conversation.

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Integrated Content Campaigns Can Help Your Customers Find You

Do you remember playing hide ’n’ seek or catch ’n’ kiss when you were a kid? If you really wanted to get caught, you’d make it easy for your friends or that cute girl or boy to find you, right? Now that you’re a sales or marketing whiz, don’t you wish your customers could find you as easily?

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B2B Visions: Fuel Mobile Marketing through the Power of Where

In my earlier blog post, “Warming Up for 2015,” I talked about focusing on what you do best and leveraging resources to help you succeed in the B2B marketplace. Many times, our best resources are other colleagues and peers who offer a little different insight into what trends and issues they see shaping the B2B

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Scrapping Strategic Tactics in Favor of Tactical Strategy

In a previous post, I suggested that the nature of “messaging” has changed so dramatically that the traditional messaging document, chock full of pre-launch analysis, is obsolete. I realized later that I stopped short. The traditional Grand Marketing Strategy for all start-up launches needs to be tossed in favor of a more flexible and athletic

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Smart Video Marketing at B2B Trade Shows

Today, we’re featuring a guest blog from Kathy Cabrera of Red Clip Video, a strategic multi-media services partner to Carabiner. Kathy shares her insights on smart video marketing practices at trade shows:  Recently, I was at the JavaOne and Oracle OpenWorld events in San Francisco. As a video marketer, I was impressed by the number of savvy

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