Does our marketing support where the business is going?

Are our marketing dollars going to the right places, and actually creating business value?

Would our leadership team, sales team and customers agree on what makes us different?

Are we choosing marketing channels strategically, or simply because everyone else is there?

Is our marketing organization built for where the business is going next?

Is our marketing technology making things better, or just more complicated?

Are sales and marketing working toward the same definition of growth?

Are our agencies executing our strategy, or defining it for us?

Are we building next year’s marketing plan, or simply updating this year’s?

 


Those questions don’t always have obvious answers. And the answer isn’t always another campaign, agency, platform, or hire.

Sometimes the first step is simply stepping back, looking at the business, and figuring out what problem actually needs to be solved.

If something in the piece I sent you sounded familiar, I’d be happy to compare notes. No pitch. Just a conversation.