The Value of Sharing (and Danger of Oversharing) on LinkedIn

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! This may be the last time you hear from me. As you may know, the Smashing Pumpkins are looking for a new guitarist, and maybe it's finally time to throw my hat [...]

2024-01-15T10:03:59-05:00January 15th, 2024|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

Cutting Through the Fog of Sales Objections

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! I've been feeling flustered lately. Yes – more than usual. But it seems like I'm not alone. I've seen many articles talking about this 'cognitive fog' that more and more of us [...]

2023-12-04T09:52:55-05:00December 4th, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

Know When to Abandon Ship on Your Leads

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Have you ever gone to a movie and realized halfway through that it wasn't going to get any better? You tell yourself to just get up and leave, but you don't. Come [...]

2023-11-27T10:03:47-05:00November 27th, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

The Haunting of Meeting-Ghost House

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! What scares you? What challenges or obstacles from your professional life occupy your dreams (or haunt your nightmares)? Hopefully handing over the reins for this week's blog post won't keep Rick up [...]

2023-11-06T11:41:47-05:00October 30th, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

Voice and Video – Better Together

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Can we build it up? With Halloween only a week away, there's a race to close out Q4 strong. While the pressure to meet year-end goals can be intense, it's also a [...]

2023-10-23T10:21:22-04:00October 23rd, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

There’s Sales Strength in Voice

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! What's your Sunday night ritual? Many of us have them, and hopefully, yours isn't just sitting at home feeling anxious about the upcoming work week! Growing up, Sunday nights in my household [...]

2023-10-23T09:57:56-04:00October 16th, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , |

Searching for that Special Someone

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Who does your dirty work? Okay, maybe not 'dirty work' – but who helps you get stuff done? Sure – we have co-workers and employees – but what about those contractors, vendors, [...]

2023-10-10T15:41:34-04:00October 9th, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

B2B Messaging: Cutting Through the Noise

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Traveling back into the city after spending some days in the country (or in my case, at the lake) is always a shock. The noise – it hits me hard! You don't [...]

2023-08-28T11:04:41-04:00August 28th, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

Squeeze the Most out of Summer (and Sales)

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! If you're like me (or my employees) you are trying to squeeze as much out of summer as possible. And hopefully, you're enjoying the great outdoors this morning and not succumbing to [...]

2023-08-08T10:15:27-04:00August 8th, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

B2B Trends: When it Rains, it Pours!

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Summer's here! Wow – can you believe we're halfway through the year already? Feels like just yesterday we were working through our 2023 sales and marketing plans! Are you sailing into the [...]

Getting the Band Back Together: Winning Back B2B Clients

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! I love it when a past client comes back. It's a great feeling – like getting the band back together! How do you create that same feeling with a NEW client? And [...]

2023-06-19T11:20:06-04:00June 19th, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

AI: The B2B Worm for your Early Bird

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! I love getting emails. Well, I get so many that I can't keep up. BUT I love to see how competitors, vendors, clients, and other B2B firms are messaging their offerings and [...]

2023-06-12T10:33:06-04:00June 12th, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , |

The Satisfaction of B2B Expertise

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! It's great to check things off your list. The satisfaction of completing something. Mowing the lawn. Fixing the leaky faucet. But building that kick-ass Excel spreadsheet? Seeing your accomplishment is so important. [...]

2023-06-05T10:07:27-04:00June 5th, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

Need to Grab Your Leads’ Attention? Make Waves!

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! I feel like I've been talking about the weather a lot lately. A sign of old age? Who knows – but I do know that some days feel much more productive than [...]

2023-05-29T10:44:17-04:00May 22nd, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

Check your B2B Rear-view and Blind Spots

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! How often do you check your rear-view mirror? It's impossible to safely drive a car while focusing on that view – and only seeing where you've been is a terrible way to [...]

2023-04-17T09:47:31-04:00April 17th, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , |

Scarcity and FOMO in B2B

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Wake up. Get ready. Rush kids out the door. Rush to work. Rush to your first meeting. It's a daily routine for many. Throw in a seasonal time change, and it makes [...]

2023-03-13T13:50:27-04:00March 13th, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

Keep Your Sales Team in the Pocket

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! The English language fascinates me. Words can have different spellings but sound the same, the same spellings but sound different, and all have different meanings… and idioms can confound even native English [...]

2023-02-27T10:09:01-05:00February 27th, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

Buyer Behaviour: Understanding leads to Connection

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! I was at a concert the other day and a fan held her phone up to take a video. An usher pounced within seconds, grabbing her phone and ordering her to stop. [...]

2023-02-13T11:35:57-05:00February 13th, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , |

Need to Succeed? Allow Ramp-up Time!

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! On this date... ...something exceptional happened. What, you may ask? Well – there's always SOMETHING – google it and you'll get a huge list of big moments on any given date. How [...]

2023-01-09T10:04:52-05:00January 9th, 2023|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , |

Reviewing B2B Sales Benchmarks

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! I was at a concert the other night. The singer, Edwin, told the audience it was five years to the day since they had last played at that venue. And then quickly [...]

2022-12-12T11:46:24-05:00December 12th, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

‘Tis the Season to Keep Leads Flowing

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! First things first, why are we obsessed with Mondays? Monday mornings – the subject of many a song or story. Why such pain? Maybe it's the rush to get the garbage out [...]

2022-12-12T11:35:24-05:00December 5th, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

Doing the B2B Evolution

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Maybe it's age or simply the accessibility of online information – but I feel like my memory isn't nearly what it used to be. But why should it be? If I need [...]

When B2B Gets Spooky

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Happy Halloween! As the days grow shorter and shadows grow longer, we recognize the start of Spooky Season. Many celebrate by watching their favorite scary movies, decorating for Halloween, and heading to [...]

2022-11-07T08:54:31-05:00October 31st, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

The B2B Upgrade

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! The world has become more connected – without a doubt. But it's also noisier and more complex. How do you cut through that noise in this mad world? Are your customers or [...]

2022-10-17T11:37:48-04:00October 17th, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , |

The B2B Live Event – A Comeback Story

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! It's hard to believe it's late September already. The days are still sunny and warm, but things get a little bit back to a routine. School is back in session, trips have [...]

2022-09-26T10:20:17-04:00September 26th, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

Living in the (B2B) Future

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Well, it's been a wild ride in the media the last few days with all eyes gazing across the Atlantic. When there is so much going on, and such a frenzy, it's [...]

2022-09-12T11:32:08-04:00September 12th, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , |

Do Your Best to Connect

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! For many, this weekend marked the end of summer. This magical switch is flipped in our collective consciousness, and we immediately return to business mode, right? For years I've tried to condition [...]

2022-09-06T08:39:20-04:00September 5th, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Lead Gen on Summer Vacation?

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Late summer has such a different vibe. The days are hot and hazy, and the beaches are packed – but you can sense the approach of autumn. Maybe it's that back-to-school anxiety [...]

2022-08-29T10:59:00-04:00August 29th, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

Disrupting Your Pattern

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! How often do you mix up your routine? There's something about getting outside your usual comfort zone, or work environment, to mix things up. You'll see things in a different way. I [...]

2022-08-22T12:07:00-04:00August 22nd, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

Thriving in a Sales Wasteland

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! This time of year can be tough for business. Many take vacations now to enjoy those hot, hazy days of summer. But September (and the end of quarter!) is right around the [...]

2022-08-15T10:49:38-04:00August 15th, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

Bring Those Leads over the Finish Line!

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! What's the most you've ever paid for a concert ticket? An informal poll with friends and colleagues surprised me! Ticket prices are skyrocketing this year and it's shocking. But – if the [...]

2022-08-15T10:30:26-04:00August 8th, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , |

Facing Down the Sales Prospect Zombie Apocalypse

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Is it worth marketing to your audience when most of them are celebrating a holiday? Or is it important to keep up the routine and schedule? Not sure... but I sincerely hope [...]

2022-06-06T10:39:01-04:00May 30th, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , |

Striking a Balance with Quantity and Quality

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Quantity vs. Quality. That age-old debate. If I'd let my sales colleagues dictate spend over the years, I'm not sure any of those companies would still exist – but we certainly would have [...]

Breakups: Hard Lessons Made Easy for B2B

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! I've been on a kick since I was at #forrb2bsummit in Austin. I've been inspired – in many ways. Re-evaluating our marketing tech stack; implementing some new strategies with our clients; sharing [...]

2022-05-20T14:40:51-04:00May 16th, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Make Your B2B Marketing the Stuff of Legends

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! I couldn't come up with an intro this week. Not sure why, but it was tough. And I feel like I need to make it good since my colleagues did such a [...]

Be the Destination in your Buyer’s Journey

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Life has a funny way of throwing you curveballs when you least expect it. And picking yourself back up can be one heck of a challenge. But without fail, the trees will [...]

2022-05-20T14:32:12-04:00March 28th, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

The Right Channel Partners – Trust ‘The Man Behind the Curtain’

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Take a deep breath in and lift your head to the sky... breathe out... do you feel that? Birds chirping, blue skies, fresh air – the first signs of spring are finally here! [...]

Don’t Panic! MarTech Heating Up

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! A client reached out this week and asked if I could help them out. They had a proposal in front of them from December of 2020, and wanted to know if we [...]

2022-05-20T14:28:10-04:00February 28th, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Shedding a Light on B2B Sales Numbers

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! I can take the cold. I've lived in Canada all my life, and even if I don't like it, I should be used to the winter weather. What I can't get used [...]

2022-05-20T14:24:21-04:00February 21st, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Don’t Mix Up Lead Gen and Appointment Setting!

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Valentine's Day 2022. I'm tempted to draw on a theme of warmth and inspiration and good old lovin' for this week's email, but the cynic in me just can't do it. So [...]

Data and Numbers and Stats, oh my!

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! I've been looking at a lot of data this week. Sometimes after staring at spreadsheets too long, I see these data points as a thousand points of light – what do they [...]

2022-05-20T14:22:23-04:00January 31st, 2022|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Upheaval and Uncertainty in B2B Trends

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! The other day was one of those beautiful, clear and sunny winter days. Sure it was cold, but with the sun beating down it felt like anything was possible. How do we [...]

The B2B Pivot and… Boy Bands?

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! I started WDBMD back in March of 2020. The plan was to share how sales and marketing leaders were dealing with our new and adjusted reality, and help us get through it by [...]

2021-12-13T10:30:20-05:00December 13th, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , |

Generations at Odds

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Things are looking awful c-c-cold here lately. What better way to heat things up than some racy sales and marketing research? Seriously, though... we're almost at year-end. Time to spice things up [...]

2021-11-22T09:29:41-05:00November 22nd, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , |

Zeppelin Marketing Tactics for B2B

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Fifty years ago today, Led Zeppelin IV was released. Yup – I know I already mentioned it last week... and the week before. But it's a pretty darn influential album on many [...]

Lessons at Life’s Big Milestones

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! I celebrated a pretty big birthday last week. So I thought I'd share it in this email by saluting one of the coolest albums of all time along with one of the [...]

Communicate the Value – Not Just the Product

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! I heard a song by AC/DC the other day. Aside from the catchy beat and the heavy guitars, I actually thought a little about the lyrics. How many times do we get [...]

2021-10-18T09:04:09-04:00October 18th, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , |

Giving Thanks for Sales Leads

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Let's keep it light this week. I feel like things have been way too heavy lately, and there's been too much focus on the past and rehashing old conversations. Sure – summer [...]

Is Your B2B Sales Funnel Leaking?

Do you have a lead follow-up checklist? Mistakes in your process can cost you sales and ultimately impact revenue. As someone who runs a demand agency, I can't tell you how often our team has generated leads for a client who isn't really prepared or has no plan for the leads when they get them. [...]

Don’t Let Prospects Smell Your Fear

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! I was at an event recently (that's right, a live event!), and I got to hang out with some old friends. I didn't realize how much I missed it. This time of [...]

2021-10-04T10:38:59-04:00October 4th, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

Best Practices for Effective B2B Lead Follow-up

Do you have a B2B lead follow-up checklist? Lead mistakes in your process can cost you sales and, ultimately, impact revenue. In our experience as a demand agency, it's surprising how often our team has generated new leads for a client who isn’t really prepared or has no plan for the leads when they get [...]

Sales and Marketing End-of-Summer Activity

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! It's been cool and rainy the last few days and it really feels like summer is over, doesn't it? I feel like I really need to make a conscious effort to stay [...]

2021-09-27T09:33:05-04:00September 27th, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

It’s a Give and Take with Prospects – but Focus on the Give

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! This time of year is always tough. For some, it's full of sadness and feelings of emptiness and loss – kids are back at school, summer is ending, relationships are changing... it's easy [...]

2021-09-13T09:34:33-04:00September 13th, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

You CAN’T Call any Day or Night – Best Calling Times for Sales Reps

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Marketing is all about timing. The right message to the right audience at the right time. So – is sending a weekly email on a big public holiday a bad move? We'll see! [...]

2021-09-03T11:44:16-04:00September 6th, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , |

You’ve Got 8 Seconds to Grab Their Attention

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Well the cat's away... and this mouse has stepped in as guest writer for this week's email! I'm Marlene Keay, and I've worked with Rick at Virtual Causeway for 15 years managing [...]

2021-08-30T09:01:49-04:00August 30th, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

Dealing With Those Pesky Cancellations

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Summer mornings at the lake can be very peaceful... the sounds of birds going about their morning business, water gently splashing against the shoreline, and the soothing echoes of... chainsaws!? Our lives [...]

2021-08-23T10:02:55-04:00August 23rd, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Undo the Summer Slump

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Slumps suck. We can get into them in any aspect of our lives – career, family, relationships, sports... I know I've had my fair share. These slumps can really make it tough [...]

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? Uncover Gaps in Demand Technology Resources and Metrics

How to Uncover Gaps in Demand Technology, Resources and Metrics Are your sales and marketing somehow misfiring? Given the complexity of systems and processes, it can be easy for something previously undetected to reduce effectiveness and miss opportunities. We have some relevant content from our webinar series: What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? Everyone is [...]

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? Demand Spectrum Model

A Demand Spectrum Model To Grow Revenue You can run into a problem when marketing executes programs for sales without aligning the marketing tactics to the sales strategies. It could be harming your bottom line. We have some relevant content from our webinar series: What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? Everyone is busy, so we [...]

Wants and Needs and Timelines

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! We've all wanted something we can't have. Or maybe needed someone that didn't need us back. Things change. People change. But how do you deal with it? We're more than halfway through [...]

2021-07-26T09:31:43-04:00July 26th, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? Match Sales Needs with Marketing Strategy

How to Match Sales Needs with Marketing Strategy Have you ever felt your sales & marketing teams are struggling to work together? If so, we have some relevant content from our webinar series: What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? Everyone is busy, so we have cut a segment from our recent webinar “Choosing the Right [...]

Step Into Your Buyer’s Shoes

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! It's official – summer is here! Things are opening up, we're seeing B2B events and concerts again, and it's tough not to feel optimistic. Do you feel like I do? To celebrate, let's [...]

2021-06-21T09:36:16-04:00June 21st, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

Social Media: the Name of the Game

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! What keeps you up at night? Do you ever wake with your heart racing, thinking about that big presentation, that customer meeting, or hitting your sales or marketing targets? It's not a [...]

Digital Media Trends

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! The countdown is on. As we approach the end of Q2, how is your pipeline shaping up? Is it growing and your team is hitting those important quarterly milestones – or are [...]

2021-05-31T10:51:55-04:00May 31st, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

Outsourcing – The Cover Band of Business?

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! There are some bands where I vividly remember the first time I heard their music. Something about the music had an impact on me. When I first heard the Red Hot Chili [...]

2021-05-25T15:59:18-04:00May 10th, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

The Art of Letting People Think You Suck

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! We’ve passed a few annual milestones recently – spring’s arrival, the end of Q1, first 100 days, and of course: the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 officially being declared a pandemic. As I [...]

Cultivating Your Leads Garden

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Spring is officially here! Maybe you're the same as me – the rain might get you down, but you know that warmer weather is on its way! Are your revenues growing as well [...]

2021-05-25T16:11:51-04:00March 29th, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

The Cost of the Data Retrofit

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! My team threw down a challenge for me this week. They asked me to use as many song references as possible from our featured artist in this week's email without being too [...]

2021-05-22T09:39:09-04:00March 15th, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

Overcoming Bad Data

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! We're all busy. But how busy are we... really? Are we moving things forward on a daily basis, or just going through the motions? With almost a year of various levels of [...]

2021-05-22T09:39:22-04:00March 8th, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , |

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? Choosing the Right B2B Demand Gen Strategy

Which B2B Demand Generation Strategy Is Right For You? Are you focused on growing sales? Do you want to target the right people at the right companies and maximize your ROI? Is Account-Based Marketing (ABM) right for you? Choosing the correct B2B demand generation strategy that supports your sales and marketing objectives is critical to [...]

Audience Growth and Trigger Cities

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Ever feel like you're surrounded by predators, always fighting for every little win? The beginning of the year is a great time to swim without looking back and focus on what's ahead. [...]

2021-05-22T09:41:34-04:00February 22nd, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

Human and Digital for Customer Experience

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! It was Groundhog Day last week. Many would argue that we’ve been reliving Groundhog Day since this pandemic hit! Regardless of the prediction of your favourite groundhog, I think we all need [...]

2021-05-22T09:52:09-04:00February 8th, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

Aligning Sales and Marketing

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Monday mornings can be challenging at the best of times. Cranking this song by Lenny Kravitz is bound to get you moving and motivated for a brand new month! Listen with me [...]

Growing Revenue with New Streams

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! It seems like 2021 is turning into the year of looking forward – as we focus on the destination a little up the road. I don’t usually like to feature an artist [...]

2021-05-22T09:42:15-04:00January 25th, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

Six Tips to Become a More Effective Salesperson

I hate to admit this, but I've been in sales for more than 20 years. It can sometimes feel like you're on a rollercoaster ride! I see many sales "professionals" not putting in the effort to hone their craft. This was posted way back, but is still very relevant today and worthy of a repost. [...]

2021-01-21T11:33:58-05:00January 21st, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , |

Adapting to Shorter Attention Spans

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Do you ever feel like you’re on a different planet? Walking through the Virtual Causeway offices lately, it feels like I'm walking on the moon – with everyone working from home, it’s [...]

2021-05-22T10:01:50-04:00January 18th, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , |

6 Steps to Market Your Experts and Boost Your Brand Awareness

As I coach management teams and executives, I realize that sometimes their personal brand gets lost as they enable the success of others. Brand management extends beyond just the product. Never forget – YOU are your own Brand and YOU need to sustain effort into keeping your brand relevant and well-positioned. With so much noise [...]

2021-01-19T14:09:38-05:00January 14th, 2021|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

My Experiences with Gatekeepers

The gatekeeper – friend or foe? I'm asked about this every day by our inside team or are clients! The gatekeeper can be your best friend. I'm here to tell you how you can turn gatekeepers into your advocate and ally. Today, most gatekeepers have absolute power over the phone, e-mail system, calendar, and marketing [...]

2020-12-17T14:25:07-05:00December 17th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , |

Lessons in B2B Growth

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Congratulations, you've made it to December 2020! I hope your organization has weathered the storm and figured out how to make things happen. Otherwise, we could be in for a long December! [...]

2021-05-22T10:16:50-04:00December 7th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , |

Can I Have Some B2B Sales Remedy?

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! What’s the remedy for this past kind of week? I think we’re all burnt out. So for a breather, let’s just listen to this cool song by The Black Crowes and hope [...]

2021-05-22T10:40:12-04:00November 9th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? Convert Your B2B Leads Like the Pros

Best Practices in Lead Follow-up and Nurturing Is your B2B lead pipeline stuck? Do you need to get your existing inbound or outbound leads moving again to close more business? Our conversation was so AWESOME that it went over our usual 29-minute limit. So we made an exception this one time! Check out our webinar [...]

2020-11-05T15:15:20-05:00November 5th, 2020|Categories: Resource, Webinars|Tags: , , , , |

HubSpot Data and Holiday Blues

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! As we slide into the second half of Q4 2020, are you churning and burning with activity? Can your team go the distance? Give this awesome song by Cake a listen as [...]

2021-05-25T15:30:34-04:00November 2nd, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

The Changing SDR Role

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! It's me against the world. At least that's how I feel sometimes when I'm staring down Q4! Can you relate? This week I've got some ideas to help in planning a better [...]

2021-05-22T10:43:16-04:00October 26th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

Where is the Money Tree?

"Money don't grow on trees," says the song lyric. That means there is plenty of work for us marketing and sales types! It's Q4 so we can't slow down. Have a listen to this as we push forward. Here is what the experts are saying, and some takeaways from the past week: HubSpot Data - [...]

2021-04-28T08:59:05-04:00October 19th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , |

B2B Innovations

Do you remember the scene in Back to the Future where Marty McFly travels back in time and visits his father (as a teenager), waking him up in the middle of the night? He's dressed as a space traveler, and puts headphones on him and plays the Walkman – blaring Eddie Van Halen guitar solos. [...]

2020-11-09T10:19:19-05:00October 13th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |

What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? 4 Ways to Impact 2020 Sales

4 Proven Sales & Marketing Tactics to Impact Your 2020 B2B Sales RIGHT NOW The clock is ticking on 2020. What is actually generating B2B sales opportunities in the current unpredictable business environment? As companies fervently adapt to the global impact of COVID-19, one challenge remains – how do you effectively engage buyers to generate [...]

2020-11-06T09:08:34-05:00September 8th, 2020|Categories: Resource, Webinars|Tags: , , , , |

Getting B2B Sales Off Hold

We are dangerously close to Labor Day! With schools re-opening, the economy rebounding – are you feeling optimistic? I sometimes wish the summer would last forever – but the renewed energy and focus associated with September can be invigorating. Need an energy boost? Listen to this while you read through today – perhaps it’s just [...]

2021-05-25T17:48:34-04:00August 29th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , |

B2B Macro Shifts Underway

What’s your current theme song? Soundgarden’s "Outshined", and the line “I've kept the movie rolling” has been a kind of motto for me through these crazy times. Makes me think back to the first Lollapalooza concert tour – summer of 1991… 29 years ago! Sadly, that was Jane’s Addiction's farewell tour. Since I’ve recently shared [...]

2021-05-25T16:33:23-04:00July 27th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , |

B2B Strategic Framework for Revenue Growth

What’s your getaway pleasure? In the summer heat, I want to be on the lake - it makes me feel insulated, safe, and at peace. As we see economic re-openings progressing (and regressing) across the continent, it feels like waves rolling in and out on a windy day. So while you read on, listen to [...]

2021-05-25T16:35:15-04:00July 20th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , |

Is The B2B Marketing Drumbeat Getting Louder?

What’s new in the B2B space this week? How are you and your teams coping with your own B2B sales and marketing ramp-up? It feels like the drumbeat is finally starting to get a bit louder in the marketplace. With the economy opening further, many of my clients are eager to continue ramping up their [...]

2021-05-25T16:50:05-04:00June 15th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , |

Finding Positive B2B Marketing and Sales Signals

Its been such a busy week! I admit that I didn’t make it to the drive-in – maybe the next staff meeting? There's lots to discuss, so grab your popcorn or coffee, and let’s get right to it! Venture Funding During the Pandemic As someone that works with many tech companies, I find it encouraging [...]

2021-05-25T17:09:47-04:00June 8th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , |
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