Marketing loves sales. Why? Because the sales number is the most important number each quarter. And, an increase in sales generally results in an increased marketing budget and more allowance for creative approaches to get your company’s message out to a wider array of target audiences. But why hasn’t that love always historically been reciprocated?...Read More

When you work in and talk about marketing long enough, you begin fine-tuning a personal philosophy about your craft. In recent months, I have pondered the overall role of marketing within a company and how I want to shape it in my own personal style. This has lead me to what I think of as...Read More

At the beginning of each new year, thoughts inevitably turn to plans for the year to come: new projects to undertake, goals to attain, books to read, skills to develop or strengthen. For many marketers, as 2018 gets underway, this will include ideas around creating new and innovative marketing campaigns, finding new sources of data,...Read More

Building a Marketing Team? Do these 5 things first When building out a marketing function, there are an endless number of things you can do. And that’s the problem. Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal reported that the average tenure of a Chief Marketing Officer dropped another 6 months in the past two years....Read More