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CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

The "need" for differentiation is so well accepted, it's considered simplistic to even make the case for differentiation. Why make a case for something everyone already knows? I disagree. Put some further thought in it. Most everything I've read and heard about differentiation is wrong. I suspect the same is true for you.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation

Several factors have dramatically altered the landscape of B2B marketing in recent years, forcing marketing practitioners to rethink their tactics and reinvest their resources to achieve superior outcomes. Here are the top challenges B2B marketing organizations now face, and how to address them.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation

Several factors have dramatically altered the landscape of B2B marketing in recent years, forcing marketing practitioners to rethink their tactics and reinvest their resources to achieve superior outcomes. Here are the top challenges B2B marketing organizations now face, and how to address them.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

The corporate graveyard is full of onetime leading businesses that lost their competitive edge by failing to keep current on their competitors. Think of the classic story of Digital Equipment Corporation, with its once technical superiority turning into organizational chaos, or the various bloated airlines, with cost structures and business models that were vulnerable to competition long before 9/11. Here's a test of your own organization's competitive market strategy.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Communications

Are you soliciting customer feedback? Are you listening to it carefully? Are you incorporating the feedback into your on and offline marketing communications? If you answered yes, yes and yes – you may be creating a cult brand.

CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy

Without a position, a business often acts like a multi-headed creature - speaking from many mouths, saying nothing substantive, and going nowhere fast.