Jason Piasecki
Jason is a Partner and the CEO at Revel, a B2B marketing agency. He is a diehard baseball fan who loves his Detroit Tigers. Family vacations often revolve around seeing games in different MLB ballparks around the country – they’ve been to 21 so far and counting. Connect with him on LinkedIn or Twitter.
How To Know If Your Marketing Is Working
Measuring marketing ROI starts by asking the right question. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Philosophers, scientists, and everyday people have pondered this riddle for centuries. My head hurts just thinking about it.
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Thinking Strategically Is Easier Said Than Done
A simple guide to marketing goals, strategies, and tactics. There’s a scene in the Princess Bride where Fezzik (played by Andre the Giant) has the swordsman Inigo Montoya and Sicilian criminal mastermind Vizzini harnessed to him while climbing a rope several hundred feet up to the top of the Cliffs ...
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Why B2B Companies Need a Written Marketing Communications Plan
What gets written down gets done. A 1979 Harvard study on goal setting asked their MBA graduating class if they had clear, written goals for their futures, as well as if they had made specific plans to transform their fantasies into realities.
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Southwest’s ‘Why’ Fail
How Southwest Airlines forgot about its higher purpose at a critical time. It sucks when a brand you love lets you down. It’s like when you find out an athlete you’ve rooted for all your life cheated. You feel like a schmuck for saying how great they were. That’s what ...
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Marketing Lessons From King Gillette
What modern marketers can learn from Gillette’s business model. My Polish/Czechoslovakian genes didn’t bless me with an overabundance of facial hair. Although I’m not going to challenge Grizzly Adams at The World Beard and Moustache Championships, I do require razors to shave my beard on a regular basis. I stopped ...
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Employer Branding: What It Is and Why It Matters
Numbers don’t lie. Having a strong employer brand is a must-have for growing companies today. I’m a stats guy. I’ll flip through a box of baseball cards and read the backs for hours to find trivia to impress my friends. For example, did you know that Kirk Gibson had 12 ...
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The Unnaturals: What Roy Hobbs Can Teach Us About Marketing
Marketing is hard. Here’s what to do about it. Roy Hobbs was born to play baseball. In the 1984 film The Natural, a young Roy was playing catch with his dad on their Iowa farm when his father offered some sage advice. “You got a gift, Roy. But it’s not ...
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Let Your Voice Guide Your Brand
What companies say is just as important as how they look. In 1976, two college dropouts started a computer company out of one of their childhood homes in Los Altos, California. In true startup fashion, the garage was used to assemble the company’s first products. Their first computer sold for ...
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VP of Sales and Marketing, VP of Marketing and Sales, or Neither?
What Seinfeld taught me about sales and marketing job titles.
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B2B Marketing is (Not) Boring
Business-to-business (B2B) marketing is boring, analytical, and hopelessly left-brained. That’s been the conventional thinking in the advertising world for years. If you’re mostly analytical and methodical in your thinking, you’re said to be left-brained. If you tend to be more creative or artistic, you’re thought to be right-brained. Mötley Crüe ...
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Marketing Malpractice
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation opens up with Chevy Chase (a.k.a. Clark Griswold) behind the wheel of the family truckster. After a near-death experience where he mutters the much-repeated phrase by my sisters and me, “Burn dust. Eat my rubber,” he leads his family out into the woods on a quest for ...
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The Power of Walking
I’ve been a dedicated walker ever since I got my Fitbit 6 years ago. I don’t run. If Mark Twain were a walker, he’d probably have said something like, “Running is a good walk spoiled.” I subscribe to that theory. I’m a numbers nerd. That’s why I love my Fitbit. ...
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