When you’re brought in as the new VP of marketing at a SaaS company that’s owned by an entrepreneur or private equity, you’re immediately thrust into the spotlight. They probably didn’t hire you because all is well in marketing. They have an issue...
We’ve had the experience of being very busy on behalf of clients only to have them come to us six or nine months into the marketing year saying that they don’t feel they’re getting traction toward...
Financial technology is a red-hot space these days. According to CB Insights, through the third quarter of 2017, more than 800 companies received more than $12 billion in VC funding globally. That’s a lot of new technology coming to market, creating...
What do you do with a 100-plus-year-old company after it changes from a consumer product manufacturer to a B2B company? Kodak had been fighting to reestablish itself as an expert in material science, imaging, photography and film. Its new customers?...
While much of our effort at Austin Lawrence is focused on Inbound Marketing, I thought I’d share some of our best practices for outbound prospecting. We use these for our own firm’s sales prospecting and recommend this kind of outreach for client...
One of the themes at last fall’s INBOUND16 conference was that content marketing is getting harder to do—you need amazing content to generate interest in an increasingly saturated online and social media landscape. And to a certain extent, I think...
If you’ve been responsible for content marketing strategy in any way, you’re already familiar with the classic Quality vs. Quantity content debate. Marketers often frame it as a dichotomous question: Is it better to prioritize fewer pieces of...
Plus: Professional Insight into Building Your Own Lists
Purchasing a list of contacts is a completely valid lead generation strategy. Marketers purchase lists when their own prospect lists are not sufficient. Whether it’s used for event recruiting...
Austin Lawrence is proud to sponsor and present the New York Inbound Marketing Professionals Meetup, a platform agnostic working group for inbound marketing professionals. Regardless of your inbound marketing software the NYIMP provides a venue...
Around since the mid-1990s, Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is a marketing strategy that has recently come to the forefront of B2B marketing. It is a recognition that for companies it is not economic to depend on having unknown customers "find them."...
