by Caitlin Toonders | Digital leadership, LinkedIn, Thought Leadership
Build your Digital Leadership Playbook for LinkedIn There’s a lot of content published on LinkedIn. Some of it valuable, some of it just noise. For business leaders, LinkedIn can be a strategic platform to create a personal brand, reinforce expertise, and build... 
by Caitlin Toonders | B2B marketing, Content strategy, Thought Leadership
Sell the outcome, not the product It’s easy for your content to get caught in the self-promotion trap – sometimes without even realizing it. There’s a time and place in the customer journey for speaking specifically about your product, but effective content speaks... 
by Gail Mercer-MacKay | B2B marketing, Thought Leadership
I’ve watched the partner ecosystem expand over my career, from a relatively small collection of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to more than 600,000 partners and at least 9,000 large ISVs who sell through the channel.1 While branded swag such as USBs and t-shirts... 
by Gail Mercer-MacKay | B2B marketing, Partner Marketing, Thought Leadership
Top Five Marketing Challenges Independent Software Vendors Face Selling Through the Channel Whether you’re a behemoth independent software vendor or a small start-up, you face the same marketing challenges in the channel The art of selling through the channel is... 
by Gail Mercer-MacKay | B2B marketing, Thought Leadership
If I told you that there was a marketing technique that had the power to convert 40% of your content readers into leads, would you use it? (That’s a rhetorical question – of course you would.) The good news is that this technique already exists, and it’s called... 
by Gail Mercer-MacKay | Storytelling, Thought Leadership
At Mercer-MacKay, we do a lot of writing for technology companies. For the most part, these companies come to us for help in crafting content that will rise above the noise – content that will tell their story and help them stand out in a crowded digital world. This...
