The problem with hamsters, gerbils and other things that scurry is that right about the time you finish paying for the 4 km of plastic tubing and the special organic food, they drop dead. Likely of exhaustion. Then you get to spend Sunday night having the Circle-of-Life talk with an inconsolable five-year-old, instead of watching […]
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 […]
The Favour of a Reply is Requested– Why We Should Start Loving Email Again
Do you remember when email was invented? I don’t have any specific memory of the day it turned up, like magic, on my computer at work, but I am fairly certain it was a matter of minutes before I joined every other marketer on the planet getting very excited about the possibilities of the medium. […]
A B2B Marketing Labour Day Reading List
Well just a few more trips to the hammock for most of us and then it’s back to the trough for four months of Fun with Revenue. Here are a few things you might want to look at over that giant drink you’re already thinking about. It’s Not Dead; It’s Sleeping: Sometimes when you’re the […]
The Final Sally: Step Five on Your Email Marketing Journey
Last rant on email, I promise (well, at least until someone sends me something stupid again). On our journey to become the Sally Field of Email Marketing, this week I want to revisit the notion of the Sacred Inbox. My assertion then, as now, is that an Inbox is hallowed ground, and if you want […]