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Why Marketing Needs to Hire a Corporate Folklorist

Harvard Business Review

Making these past and present narratives accessible to current and future audiences is an important role because it captures the spirit of the organization and uses that to develop an even stronger brand. Given the skills and span of responsibility required, this function should sit in the marketing department.

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CMOs and CEOs Can Work Better Together

Harvard Business Review

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change. It must be marketing. Develop—and stick to—a marketing blueprint. Who should lead our transformation?

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Making Sense of Owned Media

Harvard Business Review

Companies either pay to deliver content to an audience or try to earn coverage and exposure from reporters and influencers. In the sporting goods industry, Nike has created the Nike+ running community while UnderArmour is developing an owned media strategy around its recent acquisition of MapMyFitness. Marketing Media Social media'

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Seven must-haves of a marketing communication strategy

Strategy Driven

If you don’t have in-depth information about your audience, you can’t expect any of your marketing campaigns to be successful or even come close to the desired results. You can develop buyer personas around questions like: Who currently buying your products? Pick the right marketing mix. The same stands true here.

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How B2B Marketers Can Get Started with Social Media

Harvard Business Review

But social media marketing can offer B2B marketers a range of benefits if they take advantage of it, from increasing engagement and influencing decision making before the sales call to customizing sales messages and enhancing their company’s reputation. But look beyond the numbers of followers (which Maersk has many of).

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