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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Could you sell your product or service with just ONE picture or slide? It’s harder than you think. We provide a lead capturing service to B2B companies called EchoQuote. rarely get the chance to actually sit down with a potential customer at their location but, when possible, I never waste it by showing a power point slide show.
 
Friday, August 6, 2010
I attended a fantastic Focus.com presentation on June 29, 2010 as part of Focus’ interactive summit “ Mastering Lead Management “ For those of you who might have missed it, it is worth checking out. She is obviously a deep thinker about all things marketing and one of her slides stopped me in my tracks. Here’s why.
 
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
It’s been an extremely hot summer here in Maryland with many days exceeding the 100 degree mark. While most people get excited talking about their vacation destinations, there is no rest for the folks that have to manage all that time off for large companies. They are the unsung heroes of summer. Labor Scheduling Software. Is it Fall yet?
 

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I just finished a short paper on how B2B marketing has put itself in the position of being responsible for just about everything marketing and sales related. Here is an excerpt from: “How B2B Marketing Became Responsible for EVERYTHING (and how to reverse it)&#. 8220;B2B Marketers are killing themselves trying to make everyone happy.
I enjoy working with the folks over at MarketingSage; they are what you call deep thinkers and the results they get for their clients reflect it. They just posted a short (2 page) but powerful paper on Defining and Ranking Sales Leads. The chart below gives you a basic idea of how they approach it. Enjoy!
Have you ever had a person fill out a contact form on your B2B site and put in the comments “DO NOT CALL ME!&# ? We periodically review EchoQuote requests for our newer clients and we sometimes get these. But why so angry ? Guess what? They don’t need help or at least not the kind you’re offering. King and I’m with XYZ Corp.
While most B2B marketers are familiar with using white papers for lead generation, they may not have heard the term price paper ™ A price paper is a document that helps prospective customers with budgetary information about complex products and services. The above diagram shows two key ingredients for a strong B2B offer : Value and Scarcity.
I just read yet another blog post about how hard it is to justify efforts spent on social media. The post was, of course, followed by many others comforting the poster that they knew how he felt. 8220;There’s just no way to make the C-suite understand the value of the influence social media creates&# one responder said. Don’t believe me?

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Thursday, September 2, 2010
The best way to promote your company or products is by helping people. Using your expertise to answer people’s questions is one of the most effective marketing activities you can imagine. Nowadays people are not only searching. People try to find the information they are looking for by asking questions. There are a number of websites like [.].
 
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Existentialist playwright Samuel Beckett would have loved this one: Most email marketers continued to send email at a steady, high frequency for nearly two years, despite a total lack of response from the subscriber (no opens, no clicks, no purchases), according to a new study. The results are less than encouraging. cents. Subscribe to RSS.
 
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Online marketing is unique for each business. For large businesses that rely on channel partners to sell and distribute products, the online marketing process can be a challenge. With many channel partners across multiple locations, how can a business make sure that partners have the leads they need to help grow the business? Share the success!
 

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