I hate market segmentation. I understand why we need to do it, but for B2B marketers, it’s a tedious, often fruitless waste of time. Consumer marketers get to play with demographics, psychographics and other juicy factors. We get something called firmographics, which sound more like control top hosiery than a useful way to view a […]
Five Steps to Catching Your Subject Matter Experts
(Plus Two Other Ideas) This is our third installment on the subject of Subject Matter Experts. Two weeks ago we discussed the merits of a catch and release program for SMEARS (subject matter experts at rest) and last week we talked about the best ways to turn them into SMELTS (subject matter experts liberally talking). […]
How to Use Your Subject Matter Experts for World Domination
Last week we visited the world of SMEARS (subject matter experts at rest) and the compelling reasons why marketing needs to step up and turn these poorly-used resources into something every bit as exploited as the rest of us. I mean that in a good way: subject matter experts include product managers, lawyers, C-suite dwellers, […]
Why You Need a Catch & Release Program for Subject Matter Experts
When my friend the sales director blew me off for lunch the other day, I wasn’t surprised. “I’m really sorry but someone just spotted a product manager on the fourth floor,” she gushed like a drunk birder. “I need to corner that slippery little *^#@?%, brush the Cheetos dust off his shirt and get him […]
Four Ways to Get Sales Off Your Back and Out Selling
Last week I gave you a small song to sing at the end of the quarter as the inevitable fingers seek to assign the inevitable blame. I hope that saw you through to this, the first full week of the shiny new quarter. So full of promise, so full of hope, so full of time. […]
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