Tag: marketing

As long as marketers position themselves as experts in advertising, brand positioning, millennials, etc. – instead of being growth drivers – we’ll see more CMO positions disappear. The message is simple: as a marketer, stand for growth – or else.

Thomas Barta, marketing speaker & former McKinsey Partner

Introducing a poem about B2B marketing, email spam levels and copywriting
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Your marketing sucks – a B2B poem

In this post (originally published on B2B Marketing Magazine), I dedicate a poem to my fellow B2B marketers. It’s a poem about avoiding publishing marketing content that totally sucks. I’ll get to it in about three minutes, but first I thought I’d share with you the disappointing B2B marketing circumstances that inspired me to write it. I have a sneaking suspicion the scenario will be all too familiar to you… … Your marketing sucks – a B2B poem

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Three basic questions to kick-start the marketing briefing process

“To deliver marketing activity that stacks the odds in your favour of delivering growth, the first step is a great brief. You must challenge and work with the business to understand:

1) where your best sources of growth lie;

2) what is stopping the business from unlocking those opportunities; and

3) how will we know if we’re on the right track?”

courtesy of Stack for Business

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.”

C.S. Lewis, author