Mean people suck in marketing and what to do about it with Michael Brenner

B2B Lead Roundtable Podcast by Brian Carroll

Nov 7, 201918:43Business

Why does most marketing stink? According to Michael Brenner, “Most of the marketing that we do that stinks and doesn’t work is that some executive with a big ego asked us to do it.” On top of that, marketers are not in a...

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