Howard Sewell
Howard Sewell
Howard has worked in marketing for 25+ years, and is president of Spear Marketing Group, a full-service B2B marketing agency. Howard is a frequent speaker and contributor to marketing publications on topics that include demand generation, digital marketing, ABM, and marketing technology.
Why an ABM Pilot Campaign Might Be a Bad Idea
TweetLinkedInShareEmail When companies look to get started in Account-Based Marketing (ABM), the first step is very often a pilot campaign. On paper, the logic makes…
6 B2B Demand Generation Trends to Watch
TweetLinkedInShareEmail What trends will dominate the demand generation landscape in 2022? We asked the experts at Spear Marketing Group to chime in: “Digital fatigue is…
Why 46 Percent of LinkedIn Ads Fail
TweetLinkedInShareEmail Most B2B marketing benchmark reports are completely useless. That’s because either 1) the results were generated through surveys, which (as any reputable statistician will…
8 Surprising B2B Use Cases for Chatbots
TweetLinkedInShareEmail If you ask most B2B marketers how they use chat platforms like Drift, the immediate answer would most likely be: converting Web visitors. And…
The Case for Allowing Personal Emails on Lead Gen Forms
TweetLinkedInShareEmail Should you allow prospects to enter a personal email address when they fill out lead gen forms? B2B marketers seem divided on the question. …
10 Uncomfortable ABM Realities
TweetLinkedInShareEmail Account-based Marketing (ABM) continues to revolutionize the B2B marketing landscape, and, yet, if you ask 10 marketers (or even 10 “ABM Experts”) to define…
10 Tough Questions to Evaluate Your Target Account List
TweetLinkedInShareEmail In a far-gone era, when demand generation was “direct marketing,” it was often said that for any campaign to be successful, the list was…
The Risks of Over-Reliance on Late-Stage Content
TweetLinkedInShareEmail Whatever demand gen channels you use to generate marketing leads, there’s value in always promoting a mix of content and other offers that span…
Should I Use a Separate Domain for Marketing Emails?
TweetLinkedInShareEmail A client asks: “We’ve been told that we should use a separate and unique domain for email that’s different from our main Web domain. …
Surprise: Most B2B Advertising Isn’t Good. Or Is It?
TweetLinkedInShareEmail A recent report by LinkedIn and research agency System1 found that the bulk of B2B advertising is ineffective. I’ve written elsewhere in this space…
9 Tips for a More Effective Email Newsletter
TweetLinkedInShareEmail In an era of Instagram, TikTok, and Clubhouse, few marketing channels are more “old school” than the humble email newsletter. And, yet, newsletters are…
B2B Demand Generation Predictions for 2021
TweetLinkedInShareEmail 2020 was a year of change for marketers worldwide, much of it not for the best of reasons. Will B2B marketing, and demand generation…
How Quickly Should I Suspend or Delete Non-Responsive Leads?
TweetLinkedInShareEmail A client asks: How long should a lead be chronically non-responsive before they’re marked as “marketing suspended”? What best practices should we put in…
4 Ways to Measure ABM Success
TweetLinkedInShareEmail Given the business case on which most Account-Based Marketing (ABM) strategies are founded – namely, that ABM increases opportunities and revenue from high-value accounts…
12 Questions – A Checklist for ABM Readiness
TweetLinkedInShareEmail Not every Account-Based Marketing (ABM) strategy starts from the same place. For some, it might be defining Ideal Customer Profile (ICP), buying personas and…
18 Common Features of a Best-in-Class Lead Nurture Program
TweetLinkedInShareEmail It wasn’t that long ago, when marketing automation first burst on the scene, that the height of lead nurture sophistication was the simple, automated…
10 Things to Do When Marketing Spend is On Hold
TweetLinkedInShareEmail There’s plenty of debate online about the merits of marketing spend in a recession, but the reality is that many B2B firms are currently…
A Nurture Strategy for Content Syndication Leads
TweetLinkedInShareEmail I posted recently on LinkedIn that, in the current climate, leads from content syndication and other CPL programs may be an ideal replacement for…
How to Approach Demand Gen in Challenging Times
TweetLinkedInShareEmail The US business climate is being shaken by events at home and abroad, and (as I write this) no-one knows with certainty – on…
30 Tips for Work-at-Home Marketers
TweetLinkedInShareEmail This month there are, very suddenly, thousands, if not millions of marketing professionals working from home, every day, for the first time. If you’re…