I knew it wouldn’t last. I gave Linda six months in the relationship before she cracked. Theresa, grumpily dealing with her own recently terminated relationship, gave it three weeks. The rest of the Women Who Market Too Much were more charitable and suggested Linda and her new knight in shining armor might see the one-year […]
Got Lead Gen? A Book Review
Did you know there were rules about lead generation? I had no idea. All these years I’ve been stumbling around generating leads with no idea that I was supposed to be following the rules. And there are, apparently, a bunch of new ones we’re supposed to know and here is a book that explains it […]
Ten Festive Links for Tired B2B Marketers
When There’s No Seat at the Grown-up Table Many marketers spend years in the asteroid belt around their Corporate mother-ships, never getting to play with the master brand. Yet they’re routinely charged with figuring out value propositions for cans of compressed air, software that helps other software manage software or industrial thickeners. If this is […]
A Tale of Two Transit Ads
What the heck is happening to transit advertising? I used to be able to kill a ten-minute subway ride by reading the ads. They were never particularly good, but they amused. Lately, I have to fend off the “experiential” marketers and their 20 second facials. Or bypass the freshly-wrapped turnstiles, ticket booths and slow- moving […]
