Seven ideal characteristics of a B2B influencer
Influencer Marketing is becoming increasingly recognised as an important component in the marketing mix*, particularly with the rise of digitally-enabled customer empowerm… Read more
What can B2B learn from the Carillion Liquidation?
Like many people who run relatively small B2B companies in the UK I have looked on in dismay at the collapse of our second largest building company.
I have no wish to add to the finger-… Read more
Credit Crunch 10 Years On – 4 Seismic Changes in B2B Customer Management
It’s hard to believe that the Credit Crunch hit the global economy a whole decade ago!
Readers in their mid-thirties and under may not have experienced anything in their profess… Read more
Business Development Managers (BDM) & the Underwriter relationship
The importance of the BDM role and function in the distribution and customer management of financial services cannot be underestimated. The BDM ensures we gain and maintain the o… Read more
‘TRUST’ – THE PARTNERSHIP GLUE
How strong is the relationship with your most important customer? Over the last 15 years we have been researching and exploring trust as an indicator of partnership strength.
Whe… Read more
Customer Attuned Director to Speak at British Academy of Management Conference
Mark Hollyoake – Customer Attuned Director has been accepted to present a paper at the BAM conference
The paper; ‘What’s in a Name’: re-defining B2B Tr… Read more
Trust as a business developer
Customer Attuned Director, Mark Hollyoake, speaks at Xtend London event. The audience was made up of senior Directors from a wide range of industry sectors. During the talk, Mark… Read more
The DNA of Trust
Trust in a B2B context has received increasing attention in recent years, as organisations recognize its role in relationship development.
In this blog, using insight from lite… Read more
Trust in Me ~ now three years in
Mark Hollyoake shares insights from his doctorate on trust within B2B
What do we really know about trust? It may be the subject of numerous books and conference papers, bandied abo… Read more
Is conflict within a B2B relationship a bad thing? Part 3 of 3
In our third blog on Conflict within Business to Business (B2B) relationships we focus on ways organisations can prevent relationships from becoming over-dependent.
This blog… Read more
