4 critical steps to making email marketing work for your business.

There are many different ways to do this, but we believe there are 4 essential fundamentals you really need to have down. Content is almost everything Regularly sending promotional stuff will not help you very much. But producing information rich content that the decision maker comes to find regular interest in, derive insights from, pose […]

What do financial decision makers pay attention to?

Every few years we work with a research firm we love to ask financial decision makers what types of messages connect with them and where they find those messages. Upon asking more than 1400 financial decision makers in our 2015 research to rank the most favored ways to really connect with them. The envelope please…. […]

Why targeting the “middle market” can be sales & marketing disaster.

Provocative title, but a not-so-easy topic. Why? Because most of you originating in this space are generalists in a general category of poorly defined businesses. What is middle market? $10-$500MM, $50-$500MM, $100MM-$1B, 100 employees to 1000 employees? The National Center for the Middle Market (our friends at GE and Ohio State) define the space as […]