What to expect from a facilitator

Some people believe that facilitating a customer advisory board or business meeting is easy. It is not. In truth, it is easy to be a poor facilitator. If you are facilitating a business meeting yourself, or you are hiring a professional facilitator, here are 10...

Tips for handling customers that are slow to act

A common business problem is “the slowness in which people act.”  This is a situational problem but there are a number of common issues that affect customers, clients and partners that you are doing business with. Important need.  In a buyer-seller...

IDC on Transforming Lead Management

Kathleen Schaub, Research Vice President, CMO Advisory Service of IDC, recently spoke at a Northern CA Business Marketing Association (BMA) meeting. The topic – “Transforming Lead Management: How the New Buyer is Killing Your Funnel (And what to do about...

Pinterest – What Marketers Should Know

Pinterest is a social bookmarking site in which users share images such as photos, videos, quotes and infographics by “pinning” them to a theme-based virtual pinboard. The site started with a closed beta in Spring 2010 and has since been running in an...