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Here’s your weekly dose of practical marketing insights specifically written for ISVs, channel partners and pretty much anyone in software marketing.
When you think about what a software company is, your first thought may turn to a few pale individuals in a dark room lit up by nothing other than their computer screens typing away tirelessly and generating hundreds of lines of code per hour.
While the term OEM (original equipment manufacturer) was coined decades ago to explain software integration onto hardware, OEM today means many things to many people. It continues to be used to explain embarked software onto “equipment” (whether that be a smart phone, a refrigerator, a car, a printer, or anything else you can think of); it is also a term that is used to describe ISV-to-ISV partnerships to embed one piece of software into another.
It sounds like a given that alignment between sales and marketing would be automatic, but nothing could be further from the truth for many software vendors. Marketing often works in a silo to generate leads that are then passed on to sales for follow-up; however, without the buy-in of your sales team from the start, those leads are often left to collect dust and end up going cold.
As more people use script blockers to take back some of their privacy, are you still considering using third-party scripts to centralize your tracking analytics?
Creating marketing messaging whether that be on your website, for ad copy, for highly valuable gated content, or for sales outreach, takes time and thought to develop. Whether you are developing your message for the first time, or revamping it for the one-thousandth time, it’s important not to fall into the “marketing blah blah.”
