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Cost-cutting will Never lead to Greatness.

“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping a watch to save time.”  Henry Ford With this current business landscape, many B2B companies are under pressure to cut costs wherever they can. Unfortunately, one area where companies often look to save money is in their marketing budgets. While it may seem like a good idea […]

Think Strategically About Creative

Getting it right! When marketers and business owners want to create a marketing campaign that will help build a stronger, more competitive position for their brand, they can borrow some lessons from those in the ad agency world. This piece from AdAge is geared to agencies on how to be more strategic when developing creative […]

Creating Demand in B2B

View image | gettyimages.com Draw in B2B buyers by engaging them.   What’s our point? Great content marketed well (in the right place to the right people) will create demand for products and services This is basic: For people to want your products and services, they need to first know about what your business can […]

Rebrand or Redux

Rebrand or brand re-fresh? One is strategic, related to a new vision for your business and includes every aspect of your organization. The other, more tactical, is what people see from your company like a new look, colours, or messaging. In this blog post we will look at when and why a B2B company should […]

Strategy and Tactics – The same right?

#171303562 / gettyimages.com Like tomato, ‘tomahto’, many business people think strategy and tactics are one in the same. Or, they say strategy and mean tactics. Strategy and tactics are distinctly different, both very important, and need to be aligned. Tactics can be easy, fun and creative to conceive. But, creating a tactical plan that will […]

The Content Deluge and What it Means for B2B

According to Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, we generate as much information in a couple of days as all of mankind has since the dawn of recorded history up to 2003. Some mathematicians will argue that the true number of days is actually closer to a week, but the point is that our species generates more […]