Author: Michelle Palmer

With over 15 years in business-to-business marketing experience, Michelle Palmer has assisted over 300 clients in building and executing integrated marketing programs. Her clients have ranged from energy to food and beverage and from commodity level products competing through pricing and placement to large-scale, multi-million-dollar enterprise investment. Palmer has brand management experience in the U.S., Europe and Asia/Pacific; a strong record of creating and implementing differentiating marketing strategies that result in business growth, and a proven success in managing product, processes, partners, and people from concept through finished product, with close attention to budgets and deadlines.

Voice of the Customer – More Important Than Ever for B2B Marketers to Attract New Customers

Many marketing folks diligently work alongside their product development teams, and when a product is ready to release, they share information about what’s new and different.  They spend time detailing out new features on their websites, in brochures, and in wonderfully illustrated PowerPoint presentations.  While existing customers will want access to this information eventually, the… Read more »

The 3 Keys to Launching Lead Programs Faster and Less Expensively

In marketing there is a big focus on connecting with the right audience and moving prospects closer to purchasing products.  In fact, many organizations evaluate the effectiveness of a campaign (or even a complete marketing team) based on the leads that that it generates.   We are not going to discuss in this blog if this… Read more »

When Blogging – Don’t Forget “About Us”

Make sure that you always include an “About Us” section to your Blog website so that visitors can understand the type of content and bloggers they should expect to find on your blog.

Quality of the Content is the Secret to What Makes Content Marketing Work. So Choose Your Content Production Model Carefully

There is little doubt that content marketing is here to stay.  Like a perfect storm, the influences of users seeking out specific content to match their need and search engine algorithms being tuned to reward quality content, have combined to ensure content marketing is a force to be reckoned with in the Business to Business … Read more »

Water Blogged – The Role Trust Plays in the Usage of Online Content

“Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.”  This is an old saying and in case you were wondering where you could possibly be to put yourself into that situation, the answer is the ocean.  That salt water can suck the life right out of you.  Can you imagine how agonizing it would be… Read more »