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The Role of Marketing in B2B – What Should It Be?

Marketing Insider Group

I think the role of Marketing is to transform our companies into a customer-driven enterprise. In classic B2C companies marketing owns the P&L for the brands they manage. The coveted position in those companies is the brand manager who essentially acts as the CEO of that brand’s business.

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Confessions Of A B2B Marketer

Marketing Insider Group

I wish I knew all the secrets so I could transform the world of B2B Marketing forever with a tell-all book. I’d like to hear your comments on 2 things I think B2B marketers struggle with: Acting like a B2C marketer, and not investing in relationships with their top accounts (80/20 rule type accounts).

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The Future of B2B Marketing: It's Social

Marketing Insider Group

David starts with this great point: The internet has upended how consumers engage with brands. It is transforming the economics of marketing and making obsolete many of the function’s traditional strategies and structures. Edelman, who is the co-leader of McKinsey’s Global Digital Marketing Strategy practice.

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Marketing Automation and Strategy: Thought Leadership with Robert Moreau

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

I originally started my career in direct marketing where I worked with some of the largest B2B and B2C companies in the world. I also tend not to look at B2B and B2C as that different, since although there are different aspects and variables you must take into account, the job of marketing really never changes.

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Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy?

Marketing Insider Group

It seems the world of “fire, fire, aim&# has been transformed by the operational types whose visions stretch only as far as the next month’s sales goal. Charles Byers Aug 14 2010 Michael: Finally, finally, finally someone has articulated that old fashioned idea of planning before acting.

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Whatever Happened to Marketing Strategy?

Marketing Insider Group

It seems the world of “fire, fire, aim&# has been transformed by the operational types whose visions stretch only as far as the next month’s sales goal. Charles Byers Aug 14 2010 Michael: Finally, finally, finally someone has articulated that old fashioned idea of planning before acting.

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The Best Marketing Conferences of 2020

Marketing Insider Group

Asia’s largest B2B marketing conference focuses on localized strategies for Asian markets, sales and marketing alignment, marketing leadership, brand transformation, analytics, customer experience, demand generation, content marketing, martech, and more. Brand Manage Camp. September 15 – 16, Las Vegas, NV.