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In a normal year, alot of missed opportunities can hurt sales. This year, they can kill a company. So it’s time to get deadly serious about avoiding marketing mistakes.
Are there patterns in the marketing mistakes small to midsize companies make? I think so. In particular, I’ve noticed at least six ”gotchas” when it comes to CEO-led decisions about marketing. In a new ebook called Six Marketing Mistakes that CEOs Can Avoid and a series of blog posts here, I’ll describe each one’s telltale symptom… and outline a better way.
Combining CEO + CMO duties
If you are going to be Chief Marketing Officer as well as CEO, you need to take the shortest, least expensive route to:
- Get found by the right people
- Start meaningful conversations
- Alleviate worries about buying
If you’re already doing all three things well, you win a prize: a pipeline full of great leads!
Sidestepping six marketing “gotchas”
If you are falling short in any of those areas, very likely you are making some marketing mistakes. In a normal year, those mistakes merely hurt sales. But this year, when it seems like every other company is either failing or already belly up, marketing mistakes can be fatal. So it’s time to get deadly serious about avoiding them.
- Gotcha: Tactic Tunnel Vision
- Gotcha: Hiring Specialists Too Soon
- Gotcha: Awareness – The Red Herring
- Gotcha: Push Marketing
- Gotcha: Coordinating Specialists
- Gotcha: Me-Too Marketing Plan
In a new ebook I try to describe each one’s telltale symptom and why it’s a problem — and outline an alternative route.
It’s called Six Marketing Gotchas that CEOs Can Avoid — and I hope to hear from readers in this forum about what I got right and what I got wrong. (The publish date is 6/15/09 but you blog readers are getting access early.)
Fire away!
