Don't Rely Too Much on Marketing Best Practices

More than two decades ago, Michael Porter warned about the dangers of relying on benchmarking and "best practices" to produce business success. In a landmark article in the Harvard Business Review, Porter drew a sharp distinction between operational effectiveness - which often involves identifying and...

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ABM Supports (But Doesn't Create) Better Sales-Marketing Alignment

Some pundits contend that account-based marketing will create better alignment between marketing and sales. In reality, ABM can be a catalyst for improving sales-marketing alignment, but it won't cause such improved alignment to magically materialize. The adoption of ABM will quickly uncover weaknesses...

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Marketers Are Embracing Advanced Marketing Measurement

Demand Gen Report's 2018 Marketing Measurement & Attribution Benchmark Survey makes one point abundantly clear:  Measuring marketing performance is both a top priority and a major challenge for most B2B marketers.Eighty-seven percent of the survey respondents said that measuring marketing performance...

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Salesforce Study Identifies Major Marketing Trends

Salesforce recently published the fifth edition of its State of Marketing report. The new report is based on a survey that was fielded between August 13th and September 23rd of last year, and produced 4,101 responses from marketing leaders (manager or higher). Survey respondents were from...

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