#WatertightWednesday Archives - Page 3 of 4

How marketing supports sales: volume, margin and lifetime value

by Rachael Wheatley | #WatertightWednesday, Bucket, Funnels and Filters, Marketing Capability, Marketing Skills, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Team, Taps

< Back to the Blog Reading Time: 10 Minutes “Marketers are often asked to generate more leads in response to a business growth goal. This is volume growth, but it’s not always the kind of growth you need or want. In fact, marketing (working closely with customer...

Creating seamless marketing, sales and service teams

by Rachael Wheatley | #WatertightWednesday, Bucket, Funnels and Filters, Marketing Capability, Marketing Skills, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Team, Taps

< Back to the Blog Reading Time: 10 Minutes “10 years ago the Chartered Institute of Marketing predicted that there would be no separation between sales and marketing. Clearly that hasn’t happened, but why is that? And why does service get left out?” ~ Rachael...

What matters most to effective marketing, context or competence?

by Rachael Wheatley | #WatertightWednesday, Marketing Capability, Marketing Skills, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Team

< Back to the Blog Reading Time: 10 Minutes “Competence of course is a key factor in determining how effective your marketing is. It’s a combination of experience, knowledge and skills. However, a marketer is unlikely to thrive and be truly effective, however good...

Shining a light on your vision, values and milestones

by Rachael Wheatley | #WatertightWednesday, Flow Foundations, Fourth Flow Foundation - Maintain Momentum, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Team

< Back to the Blog Reading Time: 10 Minutes “Agreeing vision, values, goals and milestones is a shared responsibility across the leadership team. Marketing’s role is to turn these into something that engages and inspires employees, suppliers, clients and prospects...

Creating an organisational marketing capability

by Rachael Wheatley | #WatertightWednesday, Flow Foundations, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Team

< Back to the Blog Reading Time: 10 Minutes Effective marketing is as much a matter of organisational context as it is individual competence. For marketing to work, two key ingredients are: good marketers and a well-organised, productive marketing team. However,...

What to insource and what to outsource

by Rachael Wheatley | #WatertightWednesday, Flow Foundations, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Team, Touchpoint Leaks

< Back to the Blog Reading Time: 10 Minutes As any in-house marketer will tell you, there will come a time when you might need to use external specialists. There are all sorts of factors involved in deciding what to keep in-house and what might need outsourcing. It...