Last week we looked at Customer Experience management (CEM) and the three reasons I think we’re doing it wrong. Reason #1 was forgetting that at the beginning, middle and end of all customer experiences is emotion. Reason #2: We focus on the problem I think car dealers have figured this one out. Most , Many […]
Ten B2B Marketing Opinions from 2014
If you said I was too lazy to write something original, despite the gobs and gobs of time off I am currently enjoying, you would be correct. Here are ten posts from the past year that I kind of liked and hope you do too. Twitter Truth #2: Sometimes You Need to Shut Up Time […]
Is Your Customer Self-Service a Porcupine-Making Machine?
Trade show season is, mercifully, drawing to a close and loading docks across the nation are filled with display booths, crushed foam core signs, dented ballot boxes and damp collateral. Marketing pros are tracking their stuff as it lurches across the country, sits in Memphis awaiting a customs broker or languishes in some depot. At […]
Pssst. Trade Shows Suck at Lead Generation. Pass it on.
Sales squirrels ignoring you? Here’s a fun way to get their attention: tell them you’re cancelling all the trade shows next year. Now count backwards from ten after you click send and stand by for the howling, the outrage, the pleading. It will sound something like this: “How will we ever make quota?” “The quarter is […]
