By Barbara Pfeiffer, The Partner Marketing Group One of the questions I’m frequently asked by marketers is what NEW tactics am I seeing others use? I ALWAYS include “overlooked” trends when answering this question. Of course you want to be innovative, but...
Partner Marketing Group Blog Archives: Marketing Best Practices
5 Simple LinkedIn Profile Hacks for Your Page
By Cheryl Strege, The Partner Marketing Group Do you want to generate new business from LinkedIn this year? If not, stop reading right now. This post isn’t for you. But if you do want to start getting more leads on LinkedIn, follow these 5 simple hacks below. Of...
Survey Reveals What Tech Marketers Want from Employers
By Michelle Etherton, The Partner Marketing Group Spiceworks recently posted the 2017 Career Outlook for Tech Marketers with findings from their survey of 350+ marketers in the technology industry. Of course I was interested since 1) I am a tech marketer myself...
Why B2B Marketing Isn’t Working
By Michelle Etherton, The Partner Marketing Group Businesses don’t talk to each other. They don’t form relationships. They don’t feel stress or long for more time with family. They can’t engage and, oh yeah, they don’t buy technology. Nope. No wonder why B2B...
4 Lessons I Learned as a Managed IT Services Mystery Shopper
By Cheryl Salazar, The Partner Marketing Group A Managed IT Services client of mine recently asked me to be their ‘mystery shopper’ and call all their competitors to ask for pricing and a formal proposal. They wanted to review their pricing and offers to ensure...
How to Kill Your Marketing Campaign in 5 Easy Steps
By Cheryl Strege, The Partner Marketing Group As marketers, we often pin our hopes and dreams on the fantastic (in our opinion) marketing campaigns we create to add new customers and drive more revenue. However, hidden in our closets, there are more campaigns...
5 Ways to Tell It’s Time to Outsource Your Marketing
By Cheryl Strege, The Partner Marketing Group As part of my investment strategy, I own a number of rental properties that are managed by a professional property management company. Although they do a great job of managing the day-to-day needs of the tenants and...
How and Why You Should Now Write Compound Blog Posts
By Cheryl Strege, The Partner Marketing Group Gloom, despair and agony (a nod to a classic Hee Haw skit) is often the reaction when I ask our clients—primarily our ERP and CRM resellers, ISVs and accounting professionals—about their blogging strategy. Most...
7 Quick Tips for Marketing Dynamics 365
By Michelle Etherton, The Partner Marketing Group The race is on! Dynamics 365 has a lot of Microsoft Dynamics partners around the world both excited and overwhelmed right about now. You’ve got to figure out not just how to market it, but how to explain it....
3 Customer Engagement Lessons Every Technology Marketer Needs
Customer Engagement: 3 Lessons Every Technology Marketer Needs By Barbara Pfeiffer, The Partner Marketing Group In our recent B2B Technology Marketing Survey, we had a section focused on customer engagement. After 23 years marketing technology solutions, I am 100%...
2017 Marketing Trends You Can Actually Use
By Barbara Pfeiffer, The Partner Marketing Group Well it’s that time of year again. Everywhere I look, people are publishing their 2017 marketing trends and top predictions. And while I found some interesting reads, most seemed to fall short for our clients....
Marketing During the Holidays: ‘Tis the Season (to make a marketer crazy)
Marketing During the Holidays By Cheryl Salazar, The Partner Marketing Group Thanksgiving is done and my turkey leftovers have been reduced to pot pie. Now it’s time to hang the lights and empty the bank account! And with that thought often comes a big sigh. How did...
The B2B Technology Marketing Survey Report is HERE!
The B2B Technology Marketing Survey Report is HERE By Michelle Etherton, The Partner Marketing Group Software and technology companies – this marketing report is just for YOU! The B2B Technology Marketing Survey Report is our gift to all of you who are marketing...
How to Sell Software to Marketers
How to: Sell Software to Marketers By Michelle Etherton, The Partner Marketing Group Have you been looking for help on how to sell software to marketers? Well, Hubspot recently released their annual marketing report, The State of Inbound 2016. It’s a fantastic report...
Is Marketing Automation the Secret to Success?
Marketing Automation By Cheryl Salazar, The Partner Marketing Group Marketing automation is just one tool we marketers love to have in our bag of tricks. Not all companies can afford one and that might not be a bad thing. After working with various marketing...