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WJ 6.12 POV Differences, Brand Protection for Entrepreneurs, Teaser Campaign Effect

Want To Know Who Sarah Marshall Is?
James T. Berger, Managing Editor

Who is Sarah Marshall and what’s this all about?

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Sales Versus Marketing:  Vive la difference
Tim Smith, PhD, Chief Editor

“More than 30 years after the call to integrate sales and marketing activities ,… we find no firms that had adopted this recommendation” finds Workman, Homburg, and Gruner.  Why?  Or, more importantly, is this a good thing?

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B-2-B Trademarks and Brands - A Slippery Slope
James T. Berger, Managing Editor

While the marketing gurus will tell you about the importance of trademark and brand building for business-to-business products and services, if you are a small player or entrepreneur don’t fall too deeply in love with your brand.

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Leading Today’s Sales Organization

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What Does A Marketing Department Do

 

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Thunder and Calamity, Striking Discharges, April Showers
April 2008

6. Manage your Reaction to Brand Infringements. It’s about money not     emotions.
5. Teasers build that Word of Mouth. Who is John Galt?
4. Defend your Points of View in the face of differences in an equally     matched discussion.
3. Are you maximizing your Relationship or your Product? Who is your     balance?
2. Short term win are needed if the company is to last for the Long Term,     but who wants to rush to nowhere to go? Balance your Short and Long     term objectives.
1. “Faced with price pressure from customers, sales may be tempted to    myopic price cuts if marketing did not act as the devil’s advocate.”    Schweiger, Sandberg and Ragan.

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Paradigms for Systematically Growing Revenue in Business Markets

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Wiglaf Journal's own David Dalka was interviewed on Webmaster Radio's SEO 101 program recently. David talked about search marketing and interaction with upper management and how there is large amount of organizational redesign that needs to take place to bring search into the start of processes to the top of mind of c-level executives and board of directors. The segment starts at the 15:30 mark of the podcast. http://podcast.neo1seo.com/2008/04/03/search-and-management-interaction/

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