Monday, January 25th, 2010
Marketing and selling to business buyers are becoming increasingly difficult. More than ever before, prospective buyers now control the buying process. They decide when and how they will research purchasing decisions and when and how they will interact with potential suppliers. The Internet has put a huge volume of information ...Sunday, August 16th, 2009
During every Winter Olympics, I find myself watching at least a few minutes of the curling competition. I'm not really sure why because curling is definitely not an exciting sport. If you're not familiar with curling, it's a little like shuffleboard. The big difference is that curling is played on ...Monday, August 10th, 2009
One fact of life for most B2B companies is that their customers and potential customers are now firmly in control of the buying process. From a marketing perspective, "buyer control" means that prospective customers now have the ability to determine when and how they will access and obtain information about ...Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Within a week of each other, two major publishers of trade magazines and directories in the graphic arts and publishing markets reported major changes or restructuring. Yesterday, August 3, Cygnus Business Media announced it is restructuring under Chapter 11 protection. Just a week ago, July 30, Reed Elsevier announced that ...Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
The growth of digital marketing no longer constitutes "breaking news" for most of us, but research from several firms continues to track the fundamental changes that are occurring in the practice of marketing. A recent example is the "US Interactive Marketing Forecast, 2009 To 2014" published last month by Forrester ...Monday, July 20th, 2009
How valuable is marketing collateral in driving sales? What types of collateral have the greatest influence on purchasing decisions? What types of collateral are most widely used by prospective buyers? These were some of the questions that Eccolo Media sought to answer in a recent study of collateral usage by ...Monday, July 6th, 2009
One significant marketing trend in recent years has been the growing use of "pull" marketing techniques and channels. Outsell, Inc., a media research firm, recently estimated that U.S. marketers will spend $65 billion in 2009 on their Websites (a pull marketing channel). MediaPost recently reported that U.S. spending on search engine marketing ...
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