For B2B marketers in 2021, a new mandate has become clear: Evolve or perish. As marketing leaders steer their ships through the turbulence of COVID-19, they’re encountering the sobering reality that there will be no return to business as usual, even after they get to calmer waters. Marketing teams may make it to the other […]
2020 SEPTEMBER 12 FOCUS: “More B2B pipeline and lower budget”: Welcome back to our newsletter. In a recent online survey, we asked two simple questions of B2B sales and marketing professionals: 1) Since Covid-19 hit, have your lead goals gone up or down, and 2) have your budgets gone up or down? The results of […]
2020 JULY 29 FOCUS: “Resuming growth on a reduced budget”: Welcome back to our newsletter. As the pandemic is taking its course, economic life goes on. Most B2B technology marketing teams by now have cut budgets or resources, and with the focus now on hitting the numbers in the second half of 2020, they are […]
By Jill Richards & Johannes Hoech Fellow CMO Jill Richards (link) and I continued our April 16 explorations around what and how B2B marketers should cope with the impact and aftermath of COVID-19 (read that blog here). Today we presented the follow-on webinar to Dennis Shiao’s “Bay Area Content Marketing” Meetup group (link is here) […]
2020 MAY 11 FOCUS: “Now what? Time to hustle again”: Welcome back to our newsletter. With 33 million having filed for unemployment and public as well as private noise levels rising around wanting to return to a more productive life, the pressures to re-open the economy will increase probably in fairly short order. In fact, […]
By Jill Richards & Johannes Hoech There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted people and businesses. Many of us are now working from home and trying to stay productive amidst a barrage of unsettling and sometimes confusing news. But what is productive at this moment? How do we, as B2B marketers, set […]
2020 April 16 FOCUS: “B2B Marketer’s Survival Guide: Adapting to a Changed Landscape”: Welcome back to our newsletter. It seems people have begun to cope with the new reality, while others are forced to find new work. Similarly, some companies are struggling while others are already investing to prepare for the eventual recovery. So, today’s […]
The focus of our last two COVID-19 blogs has been on providing practical marketing advice and sharing fact-based approaches to dealing with the crisis. The first blog provided a primer of 8 likely questions asked of marketers to help their organizations prepare. While the second blog provided a framework for rationally re-forecasting 2020, including an […]
We’re at the knee of the COVID-19 infection curve in the US with several thousand confirmed; new infections already announced this weekend (the date of this writing is March 15, 2020). Most logistic curve simulations of the virus’ spread suggest a doubling of total infections every 4 to 6 days until containment methods like social […]
We’re quickly approaching the knee of the COVID-19 infection curve in the US, with several thousand confirmed infections likely to be announced by week’s end (the date of this writing is March 9, 2020). This will most likely mean a marked increase in the public’s concern for their own and others’ safety, and the associated […]