In the traditional marketing world, branding efforts are often shepherded at the executive level, with C-suite leaders initiating the process and driving the results. But a new study indicates that branding might be taking place in less obvious places, too, as the growth of the Internet and the availability of social media allows employees to […]
Kim Ann King serves as the VP of Marketing for EiQ Networks, where she oversees the company’s global marketing efforts. King was previously the Chief Marketing Officer of SiteSpect. An award-winning marketer, King is also the author of The Complete Guide to B2B Marketing. She tweets @kimannking. She spoke with us about best practices for […]
For many marketing professionals, it’s easy to focus on one target audience above all: the customer. After all, it’s customers that buy products and services, drive sales and revenue growth, and form the target audience for most marketing, right? New research from a team of American business schools indicates that a marketing professional may actually […]
After a distinguished career as a sales leader, Bob Heiss now trains executives across industries on business development fundamentals with Sandler Training. This week he sits down with us to talk about the intractable debate between sales and marketing teams within organizations and how that traditional divide is slowly fading with advances in data-driven and […]
Randy Drawas is the Chief Marketing Officer at Samanage, a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service company that helps firms manage their internal processes, with a special focus on IT. Drawas sat down with us to talk about the way cloud computing is changing our work lives, why technology has to directly solve customers’ problems, and the three questions […]