Strategy & Design

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How to ask your boss for a million bucks

As more and more interactions become completely screen-based—including customer self-service and customer support—your customer’s digital experience is becoming inextricably linked with their overall perception of your business. And you know those... Read more

Five tips on strategizing your key project resources

Once there was a company with a vast scrap yard that needed someone to guard it. So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the... Read more

Accelerate your enterprise lead generation funnel

We hear it all the time: marketing and sales organizations are given high year-over-year growth targets with flat or reduced budgets. They are challenged to do more with less:... Read more

A holistic approach to measure customer lifetime value

The science and art of measuring marketing effectiveness, especially when it comes to tracking customer lifetime value, has been an evolving organizational discipline within enterprise businesses for a number... Read more

Selling your digital experience strategy starts with storytelling

A digital experience strategy focuses on creating new areas of value for your business and your customer. Once the strategy is created it’s natural to feel that everyone will... Read more

Seven steps to successfully implement sales enablement tools

Highspot recently published reports from three leading analyst firms listing 52 companies with sales enablement technologies. Clearly, sales enablement capabilities are top of mind for many companies these days.... Read more

Getting the most out of your content marketing budget

According to a recent research study conducted at Concentrix Catalyst, 92% of marketers note that even with content marketing growing in priority with senior leadership teams, it still only... Read more

Customer journey mapping: Avoid these three common pitfalls

Customer journey mapping, the process of visualizing a brand’s customer experience through the eye of the customer, has become a widely adopted methodology by companies who strive toward customer-centric... Read more

Make content marketing effective: Choose the right KPIs – part 3

Measuring content marketing effectiveness is a growing priority for many organizations as they try to justify increases in content marketing spend. With only 30% of marketers claiming their programs... Read more

Make content marketing effective: Choose the right KPIs, part 2

In part two of this three-part series, I explore strategies and KPIs for experienced content marketing organizations.  In my first post, I argued that the reason so many organizations... Read more