Love/Hate B2B communication

I’ve had a love/ hate relationship with communication for almost 30 years now. Why? The story is actually quite simple... follow me. I started my career by co-founding Egzakt, an advertising and communication agency that was established in Trois-Rivières, Québec in 1987. So, my preoccupation with communication is not new. Throughout these last…. Read More...

Increase the effectiveness of your B2B content marketing!

  While almost 90% of companies practice content marketing and only 28% of them believe that what they do is effective, it is legitimate to ask the following questions: "Why continue?" or, "What can I do to improve my results?" The answer to the first question is quite simple; you have no choice…. Read More...

Ready for a paradigm shift in B2B Marketing?

On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your company's performance in its market? Over the past five years, have you achieved your sales and marketing goals? Is your business geared at offering your customers and prospects a complete experience, that is to say "integrated", or is it centered on…. Read More...

What are the benefits of Integrated Marketing in B2B?

How about increasing sales by 200% to 300%? Have I got your attention? Good. Let’s talk about Integrated Marketing benefits. As stated, Integrated Marketing can increase sales between 200% and 300% (DemandCon 2012) The latest CRM and Marketing Automation technologies generate 75% more sales leads (Marketing Sherpa) Companies in which Sales and Marketing…. Read More...

What is Integrated Marketing in B2B and why should I use it?

‘’Digital business forges a closer coupling between business model, customer experience, and technology design than ever before. Traditional collaboration models — you do your thing, I’ll do mine, and we’ll check in weekly — don’t cut it anymore. Instead, truly innovative organizations are moving from collaboration to co-creation, where tightly integrated, multifunction teams…. Read More...

In B2B marketing, there are no trends, only challenges.

There is one thing that always bothers me a little when talking about trends in our profession, which is the specialized field of marketing for businesses that sell to other businesses. I find that trends, in many of the considerations and decisions that managers or marketing decision makers take, can have precedence over…. Read More...

B2B Marketing : time for « less is more »

The practice of marketing for companies that sell to other businesses, B2B marketing, has seen more changes in the last 20 years than during the entire 150 years of industrial marketing. And it’s only accelerating! For a while now, the marketing and development of B2B businesses was limited to references by satisfied customers,…. Read More...