How to Build a Go-To-Market Plan & Why You Want One
There’s a quote I like: “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” When it comes to marketing, you’ll need more than one plan to accomplish the goals of...
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Is Marketing Services During a Crisis “Ambulance Chasing?”
The response to COVID-19 has felt alien to a certain extent. Hospitals assembling tents. Walmart and CVS creating pop-up testing drive-throughs. Grocery stores scrambling to keep basic necessities on the...
How to Build a Strong Sales and Marketing Strategy
You can’t pick your family. And like reluctant siblings, sales and marketing aren’t always happy about having to share responsibility for driving revenue. Building a strong sales and marketing strategy...
So, You Want to Turn Marketing into a Profit Center?
Most businesses have marketing designing brochures, writing blogs, and posting on social — getting the brand “out there.” But where, exactly, is out there? Why is one marketing approach better...
3 First-Year Realities of a New Growth Marketing Strategy
Building marketing plans is a fun, albeit consuming, exercise for strategic marketers. At that stage in the partnership, it’s a lot of deep-dive research into a new client’s industry, competition,...
3 Key Marketing Strategies for Technology Companies
For many technology companies, organizational growth can stall as word-of-mouth referrals run dry, and they are forced to think about marketing in a more strategic way. With Partners and Owners...
3 Content Marketing Tips to Support Brand Positioning Strategy
As a CEO of a high-growth company, you have a lot on your plate, from operations to management and hiring. Your organization is growing in staff and revenue each year,...
Reduce the Premature Gray with a Focused Marketing Strategy
It’s 2019. Kids are overscheduled. Parents are stressed. B2B business owners are becoming “silver foxes” well before their time because of the fear of losing market share. Leading a business...
Fractional CMO Hourly Rate and Other Strategic Marketing FAQs
Can you name the year? Two baby pandas were born in the Atlanta Zoo, selfies became a thing, and I wrote my first post on the little-known concept of a Fractional...
8 Benefits of a Fractional CMO Pod
Growing companies have to prioritize all aspects of their business. Talent often tops the list: Who is crucial to our daily functions, and who can we afford to hire next?...