Marketing Basics

Marketing has the highest employee turnover rate of any industry at an astounding 17%. This means that marketing programs are often a hodgepodge of ideas, rebuilt and reprioritized over-and-over by the different people who have come and gone.

No matter how your performance as a marketer is measured, funnel stage conversion rates are part of your process. Many marketers mistake their goal metric as the only metric to track (e.g., leads generated per quarter). This oversight creates a very reactive environment: if leads seem down, send more emails, and buy more ads; if leads are up, assume everything is just fine.

Weak personas are absolutely the most common problem facing marketing teams in the United States. Many marketers are so busy doing marketing that they forget whom they are marketing to.

I’m Stuart Nessel, VP of Business Development at Tactical (let’s connect on Linkedin!). In 2019 I was offered the opportunity to become the head of our sales organization. From this top-level view, I’ve had exposure to one of the most crucial benefits of a well-run team: collaboration between sales and marketing. It’s opened my eyes.

“We just aren’t seeing results from our marketing.” An overwhelming majority of our new clients open our very first conversation with this as the force that urged them to reach out. Companies often ask us to evaluate underperforming marketing campaigns. It’s one of the free services we offer, and we’re usually able to deduce the