The business executives of a company should be the frontliners in marketing the company’s products and services. There’s hardly any way around it.  If you are a part of the senior leadership or management of a company, it’s crucial to learn how to navigate marketing alongside other business operations. Digital marketing involves several skills, including…

Remote working and starting a business are two trends that have been massively popular over the past few years. The news of Yahoo and IBM pulling remote workers back to their offices and letting go of people who aren’t willing to work on-site has created mass protests online and throwbacks from the young generation that…

Developing your personal brand through blogging, industry events, networking, social media activities will assist your influential status. People who invest in their own personal brand are known to have “a lot at stake” – and therefore would likely be committed to whatever they undertake as a challenge. What Is Personal Branding? Personal branding is a…

Most organizations out there have a really hard time measuring the majority of their KPIs. Their marketing process is flat, measuring solely money in, money out. Those that keep evolving and strive to bring excellence at work act in several different ways (also contingent on industry/business size, but here’s what usually happens). How Different Companies…

Hybrid marketing, which refers to the hybrid between the styles of digital and traditional marketing campaigns, continues to become popular. Some of the best examples of hybrid marketing that can be found at King Content, among others, show the refreshing potential that this combo can offer to businesses. In the current business landscape, it is…

Budget and timing are the two major reasons why businesses and salespersons lose B2B deals. This is according to a report from Chorus. This resonates the fact that the B2B sales process is a long one and it needs strategic approaches not only in budget and timing, but also in everything else. To be successful…

According to Joel House, businesses that show up on the first page of results get 92% of consumer traffic. Hence, it is not surprising when WordStream’s report showed that just 8% of advertisers are decreasing their advertising investments on Search this year; this compared to a whopping 46% that are increasing them. With this, it…

Sales productivity is the rate at which members of the sales team acquire revenue for the business. High sales productivity is often a combination of several factors: Saleability of the Product The sales strategies used to sell the product Sales Team management Individual sales team member’s ability to sell A strong sales team is one…

Public speaking is one of the best globally recognized ways to establish yourself as an authority. But how to start your “side job” as a notable speaker at the beginning? In a contributed piece for Inc. Magazine, I shared my custom framework I apply when launching products in-house and consulting customers. Product marketing is just…

The reason I see so much backlash against marketing courses is primarily context. Given that marketing is applicable to each and every business model and organization, context is the first thing you want to determine. There are various approaches to marketing. Some tend to be more specific and complex than others, especially when it comes to…