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1. Basic Terms for Color Printing. There are many resources for learning how to use color in posters, brochures, or any other type of marketing materials. The only problem is that these resources cannot help you if you do not know the... (08/28/08 09:00 PM)

2. ?The horizon line for when a newspaper on the street is serving as a kind of brochure of a rich online product does not seem far.

   (08/13/08 09:00 PM)

3. Brand Management Position Available in Eau Claire, WI. Hey Folks, I recieved an email today seeking some referrals for a brand management position in Wisconsin. The role is based in Eau Claire, WI If you're interested, please contact: Leasa Sanders McIntosh leasa [at] shouldbeskiing.com 303-757-4103 Position Details:
   • Develops marketing strategies and programs to drive corporate revenue and communicate corporate vision/strategy.
   • Leverage market knowledge, customer understanding, marketing research, competitor assessments, and analysis to develop clear customer acquisition, retention and recapture strategies.
   • Partner effectively across the organization, including corporate sales, development, operations, technology, and finance.
   • Manage multiple projects simultaneously with attention to detail, tenacity, and a focus on results.
   • Identify new product and market opportunities and develop/execute plans to realize revenue goals.
   • Analyze program results using qualitative and quantitative techniques.
   • Develop and manage marketing budget.
   • Works to build and maintain relationships with all internal management team members to provide the highest level of service to our clients and their consumers.
   • Provides feedback, including appropriate reporting to key management personnel in order to identify continuous quality improvement opportunities.
   • Develops sales support materials, including presentations, brochures, and proposals.
   • Develops materials to support internal communications and strategies.
   • Develop client communications and strategies.
   • Performs other duties as assigned.
   
   (10/04/07 09:01 PM)

4. B2B content trapped in need for completeness?. The one thing I like about writing is that I get to address the topic as completely as I feel I need to. Over the years I've found that the one detail I leave out in a email or brochure or webpage is the one piece of information that folks call back looking for. When blogging, I write until I feel I've addressed the topic until it is resolved in my mind. Writing saves interuptions and makes revising easy. The end result is a complete document.
   
   Reading an article in this month's Wired called What Kind of Genuis Are You (a facinating article about two types of creatives, nicely summarized here at Reveries), I find myself identifying with 'experimentalist' creatives like Cezanne who only signed 10% of his paintings because he was never sure if they were complete or not.
   
   Regardless, the point is that one goal of B2B marketing is communicating information effectively, which means completeness. But perhaps we are overachievers. Engineers need certain data from our materials, but they aren't dumb. They can connect the dots. We don't need to spoon-feed them.
   
   Yet we continue to produce 'features and benefits' lists that treat them as dumb. That's because we are told that benefits sell, not features. And it becomes complete that way. How many of you have written something like this...
   
   "Our latest model features a smaller footprint to save your valuable lab space."
   
   Perhaps we are lacking feedback on our writing, because on the other side, this is what is happening:
   
   Engineer reading web page: "Duh!"
   
   
   How much smarter is it to leave your marketing incomplete and let the reader do the heavy lifting? The conclusion may be obvious, but the conclusion is now theirs. They own the idea now. Even complex concepts may fair better, because explaining them takes more effort then just pointing the reader in the right direction. (This happens in art and B2C advertising, but they also have the benefit of multiple mediums to make this more effective.)
   
   Or to quote a Chinese proverb I saw somewhere else this week:
   

   "Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand."

   I think I've reached the asymptote of completeness with this post, so I'll leave you to figure out what it means to you. (Of course I'm wondering if your reading this going 'duh', how obvious.)
   
   UPDATE: Kathy Sierra latest post complements (adds to) this one: Hooverin' and the space between notes (07/29/06 02:28 PM)

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