If you manage your own or other business websites, I imagine you are using Google Analytics or another data manager to explore the traffic to your website. The beauty of using Google Analytics is that you have a baseline to judge your traffic against other similar websites. I know this because I manage over 100…
Last week, I made a mistake. I grabbed a soda out of a cooler, and it was a Diet Pepsi. I’m living in Pepsi Country. Pepsi was founded in nearby New Bern, North Carolina. But I gave up diet drinks a while ago because I don’t like the taste of artificial sweeteners. Artificial is generally…
The Devil Last week I attended a CMO panel discussion sponsored by the AMA Triangle. It included CMOs from SAS, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and a couple of other independent medium to small-business CMOs. One of the panelists stood out to me. Not only was he about a foot and a half taller than everybody…
Mistakes… They are only bad if you don’t learn from them. Now, there are different levels of bad. You can put the wrong creamer in your coffee bad, or the Three Mile Island, nuke the east coast of the United States bad. But if you live to tell about it, you can always learn something…
I got hacked. Well, my credit card did. I was balancing my books when I noticed two charges from GoDaddy India on a credit card with a $25,000 limit. I use GoDaddy for domain names, but not in India so that was a BIG RED FLAG! Immediately, I called the credit card company and they…
I have to brag a bit… I won Board Member of the Quarter for the AMA Triangle. Back in January, I was recruited to join as the VP of Communications, and by April I was recognized as a winner! Now it’s not like I volunteered with any expectations, except that if I was going to…
Have you ever been in an endless loop or Mobius strip conversation with a toddler? You know… the endless circle of WHY? When a toddler keeps asking “WHY?” in response to everything they hear or see, it’s called the “why stage” or “why phase”. As children grow and develop, they become more aware of their…
In the old days, you never had to take off your shoes and go through electronic monitors to get from the ticket counter to your airport gate. I don’t travel as much as I did a few years ago, but the few times I have, the lines are long, and the process is stressful. Because…
Last week, we were all served up some Pi (or 3.14 day)! So what is your favorite kind of pie? I like pecan (or do you say pe-con?). Business is like a big pie as well. You want to get your piece, but there is always more than enough to share. The funny thing is…
In the final parts of the series, I wanted to show how and why following traditional marketing thinking can hamper your success in B2b marketing. B2b marketing differs from consumer marketing because it’s more relational than transactional, and it often takes longer to go from awareness to trust. That means that there are more steps,…