The rumors are true: The best marketing consultants, when they aren’t actively working on deliverables for their clients, can be found with their noses stuck in a book (or basking in the glow of an iPad or the non-glow of a Kindle). The reason? Because marketing is complex and ever-changing, and because even the slightest...
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Six Can’t-Ignore Lessons from BMA15
Each summer, more than 1,000 of the world’s best marketers gather for three days at the Business Marketing Association’s global conference, to share insights about how big brands, like Dow Chemical and Adobe, are succeeding with their business-to-business (B2B) marketing efforts. And each summer, I walk away with dozens of pages of notes, a...
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“Going Digital or Social?” Better Have a Strategy
What's so funny about this cartoon is that it's not funny -- it's commonplace and it's deadly to the budget. In nearly every marketing department in every organization across every industry, conversations like this are taking place. Marketers know there are increasingly more channels...
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May we suggest a few resolutions?
Farewell to 2013. It was a great year -- full of discovery and accomplishment for the clients and the team at Silver Tree Communications. So as we close out the year, we'd like to share what we've learned to help you get off to...
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