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David Byrd
David Byrd is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer for Raven Guru Marketing. Previously, he was the CMO and EVP of Sales for CloudRoute. Prior to CloudRoute, He was CMO at ANPI, CMO & EVP of Sales at Broadvox, VP of channels and Alliances for Telcordia and Director of eBusiness development with i2 Technologies.He has also held executive positions with Planet Hollywood Online, Hewlett-Packard, Tandem Computers, Sprint and Ericsson.

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November 2016

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Seven Steps to Marketing Excellence: Step 3 - Market Segmentation

November 22, 2016

The Seven Steps to Marketing Excellence are:

  1. Strategy
  2. Product
  3. Market Segmentation
  4. Brand
  5. Communications
  6. Lead Generation
  7. Sales Qualified Leads

Step Three – Market Segmentation

It is very difficult to sit down with a company and discuss market segmentation because often the founders and CEO believe they fully understand how their products and services fit into the market. Although, they are not seeing the sales that they wanted to achieve or the penetration in the markets that they initially sought to enter. Therein lies the dichotomy.

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Seven Steps to Marketing Excellence: Step Two - Product

November 15, 2016

The Seven Steps to Marketing Excellence are:

  1. Strategy
  2. Product
  3. Market Segmentation
  4. Brand
  5. Communications
  6. Lead Generation
  7. Sales Qualified Leads

Step Two – Product

I got my start in marketing by way of Product Management and Product Marketing. It is important to understand that there is a difference between Product Management and Product Marketing but both functions work in close collaboration from product inception to delivery. So, I find Product Management and Marketing (PMM) needs to be closely intertwined with Engineering and the Marketing team to successfully deliver the specified product to the marketplace that meets the brand promise.

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Seven Steps to Marketing Excellence: Step One - Strategy

November 9, 2016

The Seven Steps to Marketing Excellence are:

  1. Strategy
  2. Product
  3. Markets
  4. Brand
  5. Communications
  6. Lead Generation
  7. Sales Qualified Leads

Marketing Strategy

A marketing strategy requires a coordinated approach to align marketing activity to the overall business strategy of the company. However, per Marketo, only 56% of small businesses have a marketing strategy.  Moreover, a marketing strategy that is not coordinated with the overall business strategy means the marketing organization or sales organization may be going off in a totally wrong direction or certainly in different directions.

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