Laura Patterson

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Laura Patterson is a proven marketing practitioner, respected consultant and dynamic speaker. She is known for her practical, no-nonsense approach to proving and improving the value of marketing. Inventive and engaging, Laura quickly gets to the heart of the matter to provide actionable recommendations and solutions. Because her 20-year career began in sales and now spans customer relationship management and marketing, her recommendations are always cross-functional friendly. An early pioneer on the science side of marketing, Laura is recognized as one of the leading authorities in marketing measurement and performance, operations, and data and analytics. A strategic marketer, data and metrics master, she has helped hundreds companies in a variety of industries fulfill their marketing potential and achieve competitive advantage.

 

 

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How Your Competitors Can Help You Improve Your Performance

Most of the companies we’ve worked in or have had the privilege of serving face fairly stiff competitors. Competition…

Laura Patterson
March 16, 2020
Strategy

The Powerful Relationship Between Culture and Growth

https://media.blubrry.com/whats_your_edge/content.blubrry.com/whats_your_edge/Vision_Edge_Book_Signing_Edited_2_28_20.mp3 There is a powerful relationship between culture and growth. David Altounian, the Associate Dean of Academic Programs and…

Laura Patterson
March 6, 2020
Workplace Culture

When You’re Focused on Upstream, What do You Measure?

In several recent conversations about Marketing accountability, a question consistently surfaced about which metrics demonstrate Marketing’s value regarding strategy…

Laura Patterson
February 28, 2020
Strategy

When it Comes to Data, Go for Best, Not Perfect

https://media.blubrry.com/whats_your_edge/content.blubrry.com/whats_your_edge/best_not_perfect_data.mp3 What Grilling Has to Do With Data Management Good data stimulates good decisions. This takes good data management.…

Laura Patterson
February 17, 2020
Big Data

When and How to Use Focus Groups – Even in a Virtual World

Organizations today have numerous options for acquiring customer insights, from social listening to voice of customer research to customer…

Laura Patterson
February 7, 2020
Strategy

Why You Need to Bolster Your Business Acumen

It’s hard to be taken seriously by members of the leadership team if you can’t demonstrate a solid understanding…

Laura Patterson
February 3, 2020
Strategy

Are You Good at the Long and Short Game for Performance Excellence?

https://media.blubrry.com/whats_your_edge/content.blubrry.com/whats_your_edge/long_and_short_game_podcast.mp3 Marketing Performance Excellence Takes Proficiency at Both the Long and Short Game Golf. Not my game but I’ve…

Laura Patterson
January 16, 2020
Strategy

A Quality Message Map Makes a Powerful Competitive Weapon

One of Marketing’s primary jobs is to develop the positioning and messaging for the company and its products and…

Laura Patterson
January 13, 2020
Strategy
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