Praise for The Professional Marketer
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How to Set the Pace for Your Marketing Team
Marketing. A never-ending river of tasks. How do you make sure you get enough done without drowning your team? Or, to mix metaphors, burning them out. I’d like to introduce you, as a marketing leader, to the idea of pace, or what some people call tempo. I often hear these two terms bandied about while I’m watching Premier League soccer early on weekend mornings in my office (my way of procrastinating before I get down to writing). The idea is that the dominant team sets the tempo and thereby … [Read More...]
The Five Benefits of Curiosity in Marketing
If you are reading this post, my guess is that you are a curious person. The kind of person who is inquisitive by nature. A life learner. I’ve written before about the traits that make up a good marketer. Curiosity was top of the list. And I’m not the only marketer who values the quality. Here’s what Seth Godin had to say: “If you are not curious, you are not going to learn.” I think learning is the point. It’s not just asking a lot of questions. That just makes you nosey. It’s seeking a … [Read More...]
Ten Marketing Terms You Need to Know
Marketing lingo has broad and varied origins. The provenance of the terms on the list below spans astronomy, the Industrial Age, television and Yiddish. So, you’d be forgiven for not knowing them all. Then there are newer terms that have been created to describe concepts that have only just been developed. The explosion of martech makes it hard to keep up. Below are ten terms that I think are essential if you are a modern marketer: five old, and five new. Old Boilerplate A boilerplate … [Read More...]
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The Professional Marketer
Distilled from his career in the marketing trenches, Tim Mattthews has written the complete guide to the essential skills every marketer needs to master. If you work as a marketer, or hope to become one, you have a lot to know. The Professional Marketer is your guide book.
