Advice & Insight

Reflections on customer advisory boards, customer relationships, and what it takes to strengthen them both.

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Mastering Executive Engagement
What's Holding You Back? (Part 2)

Strong relationships with your c-level customers can accelerate change, uncover opportunities, and strengthen your company’s position. What keeps B2Bs from earning those relationships—and realizing their value? We’ve identified 10 common—but surmountable—barriers that hold B2Bs back. In Part 2 of this series, we explore the struggle and barriers to realize value.

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How Content Creators Can Provide the Actionable Relevance the C-Suite Needs [Article]

[AS SEEN IN CHIEF CONTENT OFFICER] "Armies of content developers are packaging research results, expert opinions, and success stories into papers, podcasts, videos, and events… all of them rich with hard-earned insights. But does all this content fuel business development efforts?"

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How to Design a Compelling Demand Generation Strategy for the C-Suite [Article]

[AS SEEN IN CHIEF CONTENT OFFICER] "The elusive C-suite sale. Marketers spend large amounts of time and energy digging deep into their demand generation toolkits to access executives and try to get them to buy, only to find themselves facing silence, disinterest or, at best, a pass-off to their team. But for large-scale B2B sales in particular, it’s critical to create a content plan and engagement strategy to break through to this lucrative and powerful buyer..."

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Learn the strongest boards’ five characteristics—and the methods behind them.

  • Set up a new board for success 

  • Diagnose and improve an under-performing board

  • Make a successful board even better 

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