Posts Tagged ‘building brand

If you go to Wikipedia, here’s how we (we wrote it, right?) defined CRM a while back: Customer relationship management (CRM) is a model for managing a company’s interactions with current and future customers. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize sales, marketing (all aspects of it?), customer service, and technical support. But […]

By Jan Hutchins, speaker & CEO of SocialAgenda Media. Everyone calls it a sales funnel but not everyone believes funnel is the right analogy. Many say the funnel has been leaking for years, doesn’t reflect the changes brought about by the Internet economy and is still in use only because we haven’t agreed on a better […]

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 […]

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 […]

Just Who Needs Training in American Companies? (Spoiler Alert! It’s NOT just the “Workers”) One of the biggest challenges for marketing is creating cooperative teamwork between marketing and other departments, especially in the traditionally uneasy partnership with Sales and, as technology increasingly becomes a part of marketing, IT departments. According to the American Society for […]

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, […]


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