I’ve had it. I’m calling ‘time-out’ on marketing. It’s been failing for years and whether it’s Angel, Venture Capital or Private Equity, there’s always the assumption that the business requiring investment knows what it’s doing, yet why do so many fail?
Written by Nigel Maine
on Friday, 04 September 2020.
Posted in Strategy
The New Normal Needs to Address Great Marketing and not Worrying About Lockdowns
The route to success for every business is to create and define an amazing marketing plan that will run and run. The problem is, so many businesses follow the same old methodology of cold calling, hiding content behind a form to get an email address before cold-calling again or simply hoping for the best.
Written by Nigel Maine
on Friday, 28 August 2020.
Posted in Strategy
How your business can pivot and fly in spite of the lockdown
How to adapt your new business process with reduced customer contact and kickstart your sales process to increase profitability - If ever there was a time to pivot, it’s now. But pivot where? To do what?
We both know marketing is the activity that generates income and sustainability and every other activity is simply a revenue expense.
Written by Nigel Maine
on Wednesday, 20 May 2020.
Posted in Strategy
Is this the end of business marketing as we know it or is it the beginning of a new era? [9 minute read]
No matter your view on the current state of affairs and ideas on it blowing over, the fact remains, businesses globally have been sent a message that the established and basic approach to generating new business through cold-calling and face-to-face communications has been severely restricted.
Written by Nigel Maine
on Tuesday, 17 March 2020.
Posted in Strategy
Technology Driven B2B Marketing Does Not Work. You Know it, I Know it and so do all the MarTech Sales Companies
If like most businesses, you hope that in spite of COVID you can not simply survive this debacle, but actually do more business in 2021 than you did in 2020, then you may be looking to hire a new marketing director or CMO. Or perhaps things are getting tight and you feel you might need to engage a Talent Acquisition specialist to attract a Chief Revenue Officer or one of the newly crowned Chief Growth Officers.
Written by Nigel Maine
on Friday, 03 January 2020.
Posted in Strategy
Is there a quick fix in marketing that means you can say "show me the money?"
After a recent study of marketing recruitment adverts I have come to the conclusion that many businesses still don't place as much value on marketing as they do sales.
Written by Nigel Maine
on Saturday, 03 August 2019.
Posted in Strategy