Kick Down the Sales Silo Walls

What? Sales helping Marketing? That’s not the way we generally think of the marketing-sales relationship — We expect that marketing’s role is to help sales sell. Well, yes, that is marketing’s primary responsibility, but the relationship...

A Day in the Life of a CIO

At last week’s TechTarget ROI Summit in San Francisco, Marilou Barsam, SVP of Client Consulting and Corporate Marketing at TechTarget, shared the results of a Spring 2010 survey of what TechTarget calls the “hyper-active researcher.”  Key findings...

Hot off the Tweet

I attended a great DMA Northern California presentation yesterday by Ayush Agarwal, Head of Products at CoTweet. The topic, “What’s Twitter Up to Next?” Here’s a brief recap… In the last two years, Twitter has grown from 500,000 to...

The confusion regarding the word “campaign”

I often ask marketers to tell me about the integrated marketing campaigns they are running. Here are a few common responses: We’ve been running a Google Adwords campaign for the past 2 years. We’ve got a new PR campaign kicking off next week. Our print...