Posts from category: Marketing Automation


Content Marketing: Truths and Myths

All companies have blogs, all of them want to engage customers in a dialogue… We create more and more content, but does it make sense? What’s the truth behind it? Herewith we debunk 7 common beliefs about content marketing and reveal which are myths and which are truth. Does Inbound work? Download free ebook and […]

49796 Marketing Gurus and Buzzwords You Shouldn’t Care About

  There are 60,000 of books about marketing in the Amazon catalog. It would take around 30 years to read them all!*. And the number doesn’t include myriads of blogs, webinars, courses, and podcasts on the subject. Marketing discourse produces more and more terms, trends, and people who want to make money on consulting you […]

7 Things Marketers Dream Of

What marketers want? What do they need the most? The wish-list is pretty elaborate. We wonder, what do you wish for? Feel free to share in the comment section  In the meanwhile – read our list. Inbound marketing is in crisis! Download free ebook and learn more   Multi-channel Data Integration The website, email, social […]

Is the Customer Always Right? 3 Cases That Debunk the Cliché

Imagine compiling a list of marketing clichés. It wouldn’t be complete without the immortal „the customer is always right,” coined in 1909 by Harry Selfridge, the founder of Selfridge’s department store in London. And here we are, 100 years later, repeating the same mantra. Bret Larson, CEO eVisit.com, calls this philosophy „one of the most […]

Lead Nurturing: 12 Frequently Asked Questions

There is an ugly truth about marketers: they’re interested in acquiring new contacts much more that in caring for existing ones. In a crazy rush, they chase fresh visitors and leads but forget about them as soon as their email addresses land in the database.     When marketer lays a hand on your contact […]

Autoresponders: what they are, when and how to use them

Email campaigns’ efficiency declines: according to Gleanster research, OR dropped 4 times in the last 5 years. Marketers can no longer ignore the fact, that newsletters as we know them work worse than they used to. Luckily, email marketing isn’t only about newsletters! Let’s dive into autoresponders! 10 Ideas for Omnichannel Marketing. Download ebook for […]

Buyer Persona in Marketing Automation

What is a Buyer Persona? Buyer Persona is a fictional character representing features of your customers. It represents human face of customer: Motivations Habits Behavioral Patterns Doubts Aims. Such representations make it easier to segment customers, design Buyer’s Journey and plan Lead Nurturing.     Interdisciplinary Methodology Creating Buyer Persona requires combining knowledge and skills from various disciplines: […]

6 Things Marketers Hate About Their Job

Marketers and their jobs. Love-hate situation. Relationship status: It’s complicated.  In DigiDay survey, 78% of marketers ranked their happiness at work as greater than “satisfied,” but at the same time, 2/3 of professionals declare that they want to leave the current job within the next two years. Professionals have mixed feelings towards their position in […]

“The only true wisdom is to know that you know nothing”: a super effective method of finding good solutions brought to you by the very Socrates
“The only true wisdom is to know that you know nothing”: a super effective method of finding good solutions brought to you by the very Socrates

Socrates compared himself to a gadfly, who would sting Athenians out of indolence. He was later sentenced to death precisely because of this, but the future generations were much more appreciative of his method of argumentative enquiry.     Socrates’ s times (around 470-339 BC) saw an increasing popularity of the sophists. These were wandering […]

A philosopher as the best CEO ever? Modesty, moderation and fairness being the attributes of an ideal manager? Check out a perfect company by Plato
A philosopher as the best CEO ever? Modesty, moderation and fairness being the attributes of an ideal manager? Check out a perfect company by Plato

Abolition of private property, children raised by the State and ban on painting. The first ever political utopia sounds like the worst totalitarian nightmares. However, the idea of the State as proposed by Plato contains several elements that today could inspire not only politicians, but also company directors.     The starting point for our […]

You have just bought a Ferrari because you are single and well-off or rather you are single and well-off because you have just bought a Ferrari? How Heidegger’s philosophy turns the sales process upside down.
You have just bought a Ferrari because you are single and well-off or rather you are single and well-off because you have just bought a Ferrari? How Heidegger’s philosophy turns the sales process upside down.

An NSDAP member, fighting off his mid-life crisis getting involved in an extra-marital affair with an 18-year-old student and, last but not least, one of the most important contemporary philosophers. Can that man have anything in common with developing a sales strategy for an automotive business? He surely can. More than you could ever imagine! […]

Why Schopenhauer should become the patron of marketers?
Why Schopenhauer should become the patron of marketers?

Arthur Schopenhauer is a philosopher known mainly for pessimistic memes discouraging us from taking action. It turns out, however, that his thoughts are surprisingly well aligned with the reality of a marketer’s job.   Schopenhauer devised a system, which aptly describes the way we act. He noticed a force inherent in human beings, which he […]