Monthly Archives: August 2009

News from the ISBM 09 Members Meeting

By Ralph Oliva | Published: August 28, 2009
A quick update to those of you who may be following this blog — sorry for the delay in getting a new post up.   Our ISBM members meeting for August 09 was last week, and I’m especially thankful for the 130 people who attended, and the speakers who shared so much insight with us.   Steve Ligouri from [...]
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Being Prepared — Important for Business Marketers

By Ralph Oliva | Published: August 23, 2009
Hello to all!  We’re still in the aftermath of our August members meeting, having received many insights on “Tough Tactics for Fast Payback In Today’s Markets .”   Great presentation from Don Scheibenreif of  WW Grainger, who spoke to how his firm works to serve the needs of their customers in special ways — bringing them total [...]
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Great Seeing and Learning with Members…

By Ralph Oliva | Published: August 21, 2009
It was great getting the chance to see, share, and learn together with 130 of our members at our members meeting.  Special thanks to all of our presenters…   …a lot of quote red threads” connected the speakers themes together.   First of all, as were scrambling together to make today’s numbers happen, and get through the downturn, preserve [...]
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How’s Business?

By Ralph Oliva | Published: August 10, 2009
My favorite thing to do (work-wise) is to visit business-to-business firms. And the first question I usually ask is “how’s business?”. Get to hear a lot of interesting stories, and — thanks to the connection I have with our ISBM members, an interesting perspective on the nature of business — and business-to-business in particular. I invite all of [...]
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