We are less than a week away from a total solar eclipse of the sun. On April 8, 2024, the moon will block out the sun for a few minutes – a "once in a lifetime” event, as a total solar eclipse like this happens on average 375-2,000 years in a given spot... AREN'T WE [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! The most recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees were celebrated this past week. Every year there seems to be debate about the relevance of these awards – and all entertainment [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 spent some time over the past week staring at the lake – the movement of the waves, the reflections on the water, boats in the sun – it seems different throughout [...]
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 [...]
What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Everyone needs a vacation once in a while. This week is a team effort, as I am hopefully relaxing in the sun by the time you're reading this! But never fear – [...]
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 [...]
What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? is an ongoing email. Join the mailing list to be the first to receive these weekly insights! Drummers get a bad rap. How many musician jokes are about them? But – what would our world be like without drummers? How important is that rhythm section to us? They drive [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
B2B Account-Based Marketing: Readiness Assessment Model Are your ducks in a row? The results that some B2B companies are getting using Account-Based Marketing (ABM) might tempt you to shortcircuit due diligence. Please don’t do it! We have some relevant content from our webinar series: What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? To get right to it, [...]
B2B Account-Based Marketing Success or Failure: The Determining Factors – Part 2 According to ITSMA, 87% of B2B marketers agree that Account-Based Marketing (ABM) delivers a higher ROI than other marketing activities. But is it right for you? We have some relevant content from our webinar series: What Do B2B Marketers Do Now? To keep [...]
B2B Account-Based Marketing Success or Failure: The Determining Factors – Part 1 Is it a waste of time for your company? Account-Based Marketing (ABM) continues to buzz in B2B marketing circles. But for every ABM program success, many fail. So how do you mitigate risk? We have some relevant content from our webinar series: What [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 approach summer, water becomes a big part of our lives. Pools, beaches, lakes, rivers – we all rush to the water where we can! What other things do you associate [...]
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 [...]
Are You Ready for B2B Account-Based Marketing? Are you missing out? Do you need to assess if Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is the correct B2B marketing strategy to drive sales growth for your company this year? Maybe you’ve heard the hype around ABM – some companies are enjoying explosive sales. But how do you know if [...]
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 [...]
Lead generation is one of the most important aspects of business development. It helps build your brand, gain awareness and most importantly, gets you that much closer to closing deals. With the rise of tools like social media, marketing automation systems, and pay-per-click advertising, which lead generation channel has the most potential to convert the [...]
We have all encountered spam at some point or another while scrolling through the web or sifting through our email inboxes. Some people – and even some software – are really great at identifying it and dealing with it, but some are not. Here in Canada, it's been six years since anti-spam legislation was rolled out. Is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
With the social distancing, and (at times) forced solitude, have you learned something new or rekindled a previous interest? I have a guitar hanging in my office and there are times when a little ‘noodling’ helps calm and reset me. Give the Foo Fighter’s Times Like These a listen as you read through for some [...]
Who doesn’t love a good summer vacation? Do you measure it by the warm weather, time spent outdoors, or reading that novel? As marketers we sometimes feel that tension of trying to keep things moving through the summer - how do we keep things rolling so we don’t see a dip in our activity during [...]
Don’t let your demand generation take a summer vacation! One of my clients made an interesting request the other day – they asked if we could increase our marketing and demand generation efforts for them during the months of July and August. And not just a small increase in activity, but something pretty substantial. Now, [...]
There’s something about water that I find relaxing, refreshing, and contemplative. When I need to think, sometimes I just take the boat out and stare at the water. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about what comes next, and how our clients move strongly into the marketplace. Here is what the experts are [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Can you believe it's June already? As yet another sign of the strange times we’re living in, last week I happened to see a story from Entertainment Weekly about how a low-budget horror movie had become America's No. 1 film. How? Drive-ins! With typical movie theaters closed and the postponement of major blockbusters, it’s led [...]
Maybe I’m an eternal optimist, but I really am seeing the B2B market pushing for recovery. Prior to March, B2B sales and marketing activity was at an all-time high. And luckily, it seems that businesses are looking to get back to those levels. What are you seeing? Here is what the experts are saying, and [...]
“Call Me After COVID” Sound familiar? It’s what our sales teams have been hearing for a while now….but it seems like we’re getting less of this. The economy is getting ready to kick back up – and we may be seeing signs of recovery. What are your teams seeing? Here is what the experts are [...]
Here is the latest update for you – if it's valuable, please forward it to your colleagues. And please share your findings back – I’d love to hear from you! Here are some takeaways from the past week: 1. Deal Volume and Sales Response Rates are Down - HubSpot has been providing some great real-time [...]
I’ve recently witnessed some marketplace changes that I want to share with you. This past week our client teams have noticed that response rates and live conversations with B2B prospects have picked up considerably. Of course, I am hoping this trend continues. Are your sales teams finding the same? Here are some takeaways from the [...]
As I process everything going on these days, I find myself reflecting on past experiences as I push forward. What is the role of change now? Here are some takeaways from the past week: 1. Your Brand New 100% Inside Sales Organization! When I started Virtual Causeway in 2001, it was mainly due to a [...]
I usually don’t listen to webinars ‘live’ but this one was different. As someone who helps to manage and implement webinar strategies for our clients, I rarely attend them live. I typically wait for the replay or recording. Today I watched a timely and thought-provoking webinar hosted by Gartner and TOPO: COVID-19 – Strategic Sales [...]
What a week it’s been! I wanted to remind you that you’re not alone. As I’ve been talking to clients, partners, and vendors this week, I realized that I need to share more. I can add value to the business community by sharing what I am seeing in the market – so I wanted to [...]
Lead machine webinar coming in hot! Join Rick Endrulat for ‘5 Simple Steps to Building an Integrated Lead Engine to Grow Sales’. In this 20-minute webinar, learn how to build your own complete targeted content marketing process that effectively generates qualified B2B sales leads. You'll learn A complete lead producing process The role of content [...]
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A lead is a potential contact, individual, or organization that expresses an interest in your goods or services. Typically, the marketing department is responsible for generating these leads to pass onto the sales department to pursue and convert. Leads are important for any organization; they are what will eventually (hopefully) turn into a sale. Having [...]
Long after all the other social media giants have adopted video sharing features, LinkedIn has finally jumped on the bandwagon. The business-centric social media network will now let users take and upload videos with the updated in-app camera or upload clips from their phone’s camera roll. Currently, LinkedIn says the native video feature is currently [...]
Social media started out at as a tool to communicate and stay in touch with friends, family, and colleagues. Eventually, it became popular among business-to-consumer companies to help find and communicate with their customers. Today it has become an integral part of any businesses marketing strategy and B2B is no exception. When reading about social [...]
Sales leads are what drive your business. You probably have a bunch of them pouring in already, but are they good, quality leads? Traditional sales and marketing strategies tend to focus on casting a wide net and capturing as many leads as possible instead of focusing on the good ones. If you’re not getting the [...]
We have all encountered spam at some point or another while scrolling through the web or sifting through your email inbox. Some people - and even software - are really great at identifying it and dealing with it, but some are not. While nobody likes receiving spam, the fact is many businesses are actively sending [...]
Snapchat started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on March 2nd, 2017, offering 200 million shares at $17 each. By 12:00pm ET, their price had risen to $25.38 per share. That all sounds really great for Snapchat, but it doesn’t really help you at all. So, instead of continuing to bore you with financial [...]
And hope that everyone catches it like the Flu. The Internet is bursting at the seams with content and information. It is important to stand out so you are getting the most out of your B2B marketing strategies. I recently read a book called Contagious by Jonah Berger, Professor of Marketing at The University of [...]
Hop on the bandwagon, you're missing out! Last year we saw the importance of visual content, such as video, emphasized by the changes that took place across almost every major social network such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter. Most notable were the launch of Facebook and Instagram’s live feature, Facebook’s pre-roll video ads, and [...]
Overcome complacency. Achieve Marketing stardom. The biggest killer for any marketing department, marketing campaign, or marketing professional can best be described using one word — complacency. I’m guilty of it. If you’re honest with yourself, so are you. There is just so much going on in our day-to-day lives, not to mention the non-stop meetings, [...]
