By: Steve Robins
Solution marketing continues to evolve with the rapid growth of social media. As a solution marketer, expect to create more and more social content and to participate in more and more social media activities, communities and dialogs. And you need to be prepared. That’s why this blog contains several posts on social media. Last weekend, I had the opportunity to see and discuss the latest social media trends and strategies at PodCamp Boston. Continue reading
Filed under Social Media, Solution Marketing, Solutions
By: Steve Robins
So what does solution marketing have to do with inbound marketing and social media? As it turns out, quite a lot. Solution marketing focuses on solving customer problems – on their terms. And one of the best ways to engage with customers on their terms is via social media and inbound marketing (social media is one aspect of inbound marketing). Need to learn more? Check out Inbound Marketing University. Continue reading
Filed under Classes, Solution Marketing, Webinars
A few weeks back I attended WebInno22 in Cambridge MA, founded by David Beisel of Venrock. The gathering of 500+ technorati – entrepreneurs, investors, potential customers, analysts, press and others, is designed to showcase the work of innovative Boston area Internet and software firms through 5-minute demos. And those 5-minute demos provided some great lessons. Continue reading
Filed under Demos, Messaging, Product Marketing, Solution Marketing
Reflections from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference (E2Conf) in Boston
By: Steve Robins
Solutions 2.0? As a solution marketer, I’m always looking for trends that will affect our field. Web 2.0 and social media technologies have been broadly embraced outside the corporation. Based on many of the same concepts, Enterprise 2.0 technologies — and solutions — are bound to have an effect on the enterprise and on all aspects of software marketing, including solution marketing. The big question is how much? That’s why I attended the Enterprise 2.0 Conference (E2Conf) last week in Boston. Continue reading
Filed under Enterprise 2.0
OK, I can barely say it seriously BUT I did just start a new Solution Marketing “Twibe“, a common interest group on Twitter. It’s similar to Solution Marketing Pros on LinkedIn. As I mentioned in my last post, you have to go where your community is, so if folks are in Twitter, then Solution Marketing needs to be there too!
Become one of the first to join – see http://www.twibes.com/group/SolutionMarketing.
— Steve
Filed under Community
The Strategic Role of Product Marketing
Presentation at ProductCamp ON>LINE Friday June 11 at 1:15 pm ET
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 Steve Robins has been helping companies to transform their marketing focus from technology platforms to customer solutions -- for over 10 years as a tech analyst and marketer at EMC Documentum, KANA and The Yankee Group. More... |
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