Are you practicing best practices?

November 30, 2009
I particularly liked the HubSpot post this week about a Fortune 500 CEO who gives strongly-worded, yet polite, email tips on his auto responder: The CEO Explains the Need for His Email Reply “Please understand that I get dozens of these types of messages a week.  I simply do not...

Twitter: MEform vs. INform

November 24, 2009
I saw the post about meformers vs. informers on Steve Rubel’s Lifestream and thought it was an incredibly poignant way to illustrate the majority of people who are contributing to Twitter. I know I’m guilty of quite a lot of “meforming” – that is,...

Explaining the difference between sales and marketing

November 9, 2009
Whose job is it anyway? A post on Hubspot posed a great question this week: In marketing, we call it “generating leads.” In sales, it’s usually called “prospecting.” Whose job is it anyways? The truth is, sales and marketing are inner-connected, and...

Listen in on MarketingSherpa’s B2B Summit in Boston

October 6, 2009
Some of us were able to attend MarketingSherpa’s 6th annual B2B summit a few weeks ago in San Francisco, CA. For those of you who missed it, MarketingSherpa and Hubspot are offering up a free Live-Streaming of the Boston Summit Tuesday, October 6 between 9:00am and 12:30pm.