A Military Perspective of Marketing Automation

Network Centric Warfare

AFCEA

The Marketing Consigliere knows many great B2B professionals in the Marketing Automation space.  Many of them are great evangelists spreading the word of the promise of the growing number of tools out there that help firms drive revenue by aligning Sales and Marketing.  However, he feels that there has not been a sufficient model that sets the stage for the transformation necessary to take advantage of all of these revolutionary tools.

Therefore, he has laboriously come up with a white paper that attempts to explain this through an analogy with a proven application of the model- that of the warrior, who seeks to dominate his enemy.  This white paper is also an experiment – The Marketing Consigliere seeks feedback from other Marketers on this paper and will incorporate the input that helps make it better – instead of calling this “crowdsourcing,” he prefers to call this pro-sourcing.

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5 Lessons in Marketing’s Brave New World

Eloqua's Brave New World

This past week The Marketing Consigliere was fortunate enough to attend a very interesting event.  Eloqua had assembled some of the brightest Marketing practitioners in the Washington DC area for their “A Brave New World” road show, which is also appearing in New York, Chicago, Boston, Austin, Fort Lauderdale, Denver, Minneapolis, Atlanta, and Southern California.  The name of the event was appropriate.

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Digital Body Language – Read It and Read It!

While attending the Online Marketing Summit in Washington, DC, the audience had the privilege to listen to the lunchtime keynote by Steve Woods, CTO of Eloqua, a leading marketing automation platform provider.  He was handing out copies of his recently published book, Digital Body Language, to people who asked questions at the end of his speech.

Fortunately, the Marketing Consigliere asked one of the questions and was pleased to obtain a copy of this book, which should be read by any Marketer who is interested in demand generation, behavioral marketing, business intelligence, campaign management, email marketing, or enterprise marketing management (EMM). [Read more...]

OMS Whistle Stop Tour – Don’t Miss the Train!

Whistle Stop Tour

Online Marketing Summit

The Online Marketing Summit is back and bigger than ever.  This year, they’re calling it the “Whistle Stop Tour” because the producers of the OMS actually are traveling city to city by train.

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CXOs – Get Marketing On Track! Part III

CMO Council & Calibrate How You Operate

CXOs – Get Marketing On Track! Part I” and Part II have attracted new readers that The Marketing Consigliere has been happy to become acquainted with.  The timeliness of this blog apparently has hit a nerve and now another report underscores the need to “get marketing on track.”

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CXOs – Get Marketing On Track!

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Alterian‘s December 2008 research is starting to reverberate around the Marketing world. While some leading trade publications are still picking up the news, the message is clear – most marketers still need to get their act together, but thankfully realize it.  The main problem is money (of course), time, and corporate culture.

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