Business Insights

How to “Kondo” Your Marketing: Declutter, Refresh & Reenergize

Tidying expert Marie Kondo, a Japanese organizing consultant, Netflix star and author, developed the KonMari Method™, a way to transform your home by gathering possessions by category and keeping only those items that “spark joy.” Kondo’s advice is taking the world by storm. But what does all this have to do with marketing?

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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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Salesforce’s State of Marketing Report Delivers Key Insights, Recommendations for 2015

Earlier this year, Salesforce released its 2015 State of Marketing Report that delivers marketing insights from over 5,000 global marketers. The comprehensive report is a powerhouse of information that looks at areas of increased spending, rising trends, as well as the challenges facing today’s businesses. Key among the takeaways is that 84 percent of marketers

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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of “messaging” has changed so dramatically that the traditional messaging document, chock full of pre-launch analysis, is obsolete.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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Marketing Performance: How Do You Measure Up?

According to a recent marketing performance management and measurement survey, 85 percent of marketers feel increasing pressure to measure marketing’s value and contribution, yet only 26 percent are capable of determining their impact on the business. Conducted by VisionEdge Marketing and ITSM, the survey provides a view into what best-in-class marketers, given an “A” grade by

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