B2B Marketing

Cigar Site Seeks to Develop B-to-B Customers

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Online entrepreneur Scott Hall found a new venture to acquire eight weeks ago, at an unlikely source: online classified ad service craigslist.com. The business he purchased is MyCigarLabels.com, which markets not the stogies themselves but personalized cigar labels.

Easier Said Than Done

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

It sounds deceptively simple. To increase business-to-business leads and sales, all you have to do is make four rights: right people, right offer, right

GETTING THROUGH

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Business-to-business marketing may not have the glamorous reputation of its consumer cousin. But that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of hot new ideas to help B-to-B companies better acquire and retain customers. Here's a roundup of new developments to help you meet your business objectives.

Back to the Start

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

LEAD GENERATION HAS LONG BEEN THE NAME OF THE GAME IN BUSINESS-TO-business. The complex decision cycles that precede most purchases and the high cost

It’s Good to Be King

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Treat your best customers with care Top customers deserve special treatment. You can afford it, and they expect it and thrive on it. So business marketers

Attention to Retention

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

TEN YEARS AGO, Frederick Reichheld's The Loyalty Effect demonstrated to the world that a five-percentage-point decrease in customer defections could improve

Stay in Touch

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

YOU NEVER CALL, you never write. Who wants to have their customers say that? Certainly not software marketer PTC, which is seeing an uptick in revenue