Archives posted in: Marketing

Sales Versus Marketing: Vive la difference

By Tim J. Smith, PhD April 1, 2008

“More than 30 years after the call to integrate sales and marketing activities ,… we find no firms that had adopted this…

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!

By Tim J. Smith, PhD February 1, 2008

What drives engagement and loyalty for your brand? Many companies think they know the answer to this because they’ve relied on some…

Don’t Fall Into the “Commodity” Trap

By James T. Berger February 1, 2008

A few years ago one of my students asked me to help him market his company’s products. The product line was a…

Insight from a Marketing Master

By James T. Berger November 1, 2007

John Quelch was one of ten marketing experts profiled in the 2007 book, Conversations with Marketing Masters, authored by Laura Mazur and…

The Case for Strategic Product Marketing

By Tim J. Smith, PhD August 1, 2007

The trouble with the outbound role of product marketing is that we have an identity crisis on our hands-we’re misunderstood, misguided, and…

The Perils of Using the Internet for Surveys

By James T. Berger July 1, 2007

As one who is involved in trademark infringement litigation surveys, I have discovered the Internet as a means of probing the marketplace…

The Difficulty of Developing Profitable and Unique Sales Promotions

By James T. Berger June 1, 2007

A Universitiy of Houston professor, Betsy Gelb, and two of her doctoral candidate students, Demetra Andrews and Son K. Lam, set off…

A New Way to Segment B-T-B Markets – Put Your Product to Work

By James T. Berger May 1, 2007

A group of four academicians and innovation consultants have come up with a new twist on segmentation. Rather than analyze the traditional…

Don’t Segment Markets – “Hire” the Product

By James T. Berger March 1, 2007

The conventional wisdom is to segment markets by such things as demographics, psychographics, geographics, benefit/usage, buyer behavior dynamics and so forth. Now…

The “iPhone” Brouhaha

By James T. Berger February 1, 2007

One of the more interesting intellectual property lawsuits in recent years is starting to unfold as two IP behemoths — Apple and…