Archive for the ‘Marketing communications’ Category

Which mantra gets you up in the morning and through your day as a marketer? There are classics like: “The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits them and sells itself.” ~ Peter F. Drucker. “What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy […]

What’s the most frightening thing about this time of year? Is it ghouls, goblins and Halloween? Rich food and relatives? Another year having raced by? No, it’s budgeting time for businesses. So before you head into the boardroom with your wish list, decide whether you’re going to be like former President, George W. Bush who […]

Want proof marketing is at least as much an art as a science? We asked 9 successful Marketing and Sales executives the same question and got answers that inspire possibilities more than certainties. First, consider and answer the question yourself. Second, check the integrated demand generation process flow we’ve designed for you and download the presentation […]

How can we, marketers, become more helpful to Sales? Steve Jobs said, “You’ve go to start with the customer experience and work back to the technology, not the other way around.” According to Sirius Decisions, 70% of the B2B buying process is done before the buyer engages with sales. This belies the notion that Sales […]

As much as it’s wise and wonderful to “stop and smell the roses”, as the end of fiscal year approaches many companies realize it’s just as valuable to return to a careful examination of “What are we really doing, where are we going and why?” along with considering whether all functions are aligned to handle […]

There’s little need to cite statistics. They all point to the fact that “Going Mobile” is the new gold rush for marketers. Leave wherever you call home and “git” out to Mobile-fornia where market share is just laying around for the taking. And a rush it is! eMarketer estimated our mobile ad spending would surge […]

By Jan Hutchins, CEO, SocialAgenda Media. Because you feel strongly about marketing with all its drama and plot twists, roller coaster ups and downs, this article asks you to imagine the demand generation process was made into a movie… Where does your imagination take you with the mention of “The Dark Knight”, “Titanic”, “The Godfather”, […]

What will it be in 2014? Will the disruption be more mobile, even bigger data, consumer behavior that conforms to an algorithm, the next Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Apple, Microsoft? Whatever the next technological and marketing disruptions turn out to be they’re sure to change the way we interact with and engage our audiences. This SocialAgenda […]

The Scientific Revolution of the 16th century transformed views about society and nature, replacing religion, superstition and fear with an emphasis on reason and knowledge. That shift, which journalist H. L. Mencken described as “The Pope [losing] his hold on the secular mind” led to the Age of Enlightenment and its encouragement of arts, education, […]

It’s never dull here at SocialAgenda Media because we consciously include play in all our work. Finding one’s “voice” is almost always a challenge for heart-based beings who feel called to their message. Feel the earnestness right under the humor in this blooper piece.


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