Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 8, 2009

This past week I was lucky enough to attend both the CMO Club Summit in New York, and the Sales 2.0 There was a definite overlap of key discussion points that I believe is critical for all sales and marketing execs to consider. Alignment of Sales & Marketing. Sales Enablement. Conference in Boston. Demand Generation.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 29, 2009

His insight and knowledge regarding sales and marketing was deep. We were talking last week and I asked him if he would put some thought to a few questions regarding sales and marketing alignment. Mike: Joe, you just came off a whirlwind tour with the SiriusDecisions Summit two weeks ago and the Sales 2.0 Conference this week.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 4, 2019

I presented these 5 Outbound Calling Best Practices years ago at a Boston Chapter meeting of AA-ISP ( American Association of Inside Sales Professionals ), and they are still relevant today (with an update on the tech tools). Check out the article I wrote, Take 3 Hour Lunches , which discusses the day in detail and backs it up with data.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 11, 2009

His insight and knowledge regarding sales and marketing was deep. We were talking last week and I asked him if he would put some thought to a few questions regarding sales and marketing alignment. Mike : Joe, you just came off a whirlwind tour with the SiriusDecisions Summit two weeks ago and the Sales 2.0 Conference this week.

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Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Having just kicked off, the SiriusDecisions Summit in London will be spanning two days with tons of marketing and sales goodness. I''ll be adding notable thoughts, quotes, and tweets to this article during the two days, so come back! RT @BabcockJenkins: Portrait of the modern marketer and sales person. More to come.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 19, 2010

There were some great B2B Demand Gen articles posted this week, and here are the handful that stood out for the Smashmouth crowd: Old Spice: The Man Your Content Could Smell Like - The big news this week was the Old Spice Man answering people's questions and Twitter updates with personalized responses. What did we miss?

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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 28, 2009

The short version excerpted from the article: The experts balance Inbound Marketing with Outbound Marketing. full article on the DemandGen Reports site). Tags: nurturing socialmedia marketing appointments twitter b2b sales poll demand linkedin SEO cold calls inside sales sales2.0 Some key points to consider.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 19, 2009

link] mark3803 : @brianjcarroll BANT is so sales 1.0 - Sales 2.0 is all about the Buy Cycle not the Sales Cycle. (I I responded) damphoux : @mark3803 : @brianjcarroll a sales guy waiting for high BANT score is losing opportunity. Good sales people can help create BANT. Do you agree?

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Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

While recently updating our training materials for new hires, I was digesting all the valuable info from our friends at The Bridge Group on inside sales benchmarking and inside sales training. One particular article captured my attention because it stated some basic principles that many sales professionals sometimes fail to heed.

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Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

I would not normally make such a blanket statement, but I don''t want anyone to miss the point of this article. The benefits of being here are endless: Technology - Aisles and aisles of vendors selling everything from big data (impressed by Tableau ), to sales productivity tools such as InsideSales.com , which Green Leads just implemented.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 6, 2009

We'll followup with a blog article discussing the results. Tags: nurturing socialmedia marketing appointments twitter b2b sales poll demand linkedin SEO cold calls inside sales sales2.0 Please spread the word.

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Smashmouth Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

A week after the election, the topic surfaced again after reading a recent article on HubSpot's blog, Are You Unwittingly Making This Disastrous Sales Mistake? And it sparked a controversial thread of blog comments led by Luke Brown , who signs his comment posts "Sales Pro", but the comments soon turned to mudslinging.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 9, 2009

mark3803 : @brianjcarroll BANT is so sales 1.0 - Sales 2.0 is all about the Buy Cycle not the Sales Cycle. (I damphoux : @mark3803 : @brianjcarroll a sales guy waiting for high BANT score is losing opportunity. Good sales people can help create BANT. Next article: What makes a good non-scoring BANT prospect?

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 19, 2009

I'm deviating from my normal article style and getting down to some math. Back in November I posted an article, Poker Equity and Marketing - Lead Equity. It lead to me reposting the original article, and then to my responding to several questions by email asking me to elaborate. Use Case A - This sales cycle is short.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2013

In the world of sales, selling doesn''t start until a conversation starts with the prospect. However, unless your inbound lead comes in the form of a calendar invite, date, time and phone number booking one of your sales reps for a appointment, there is still work to do. The tribe they''ve created in the past few years is amazing.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2009

I'll share the intro here, and you can get the rest of the article on the site. Craig is publishing a series of Thought Leader articles and thus far they have been great reading for B2B Marketers. You can find all his articles on his site. Just got an interview published on Craig Rosenberg's funnelholic blog. Thanks Craig!

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Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 15, 2009

I'll share the intro here, and you can get the rest of the article on the site. Craig is publishing a series of Thought Leader articles and thus far they have been great reading for B2B Marketers. You can find all his articles on his site. Just got an interview published on Craig Rosenberg's funnelholic blog. Thanks Craig!

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 17, 2009

There is a thread of blog articles on MarketingProf's , a page of MarketingProfs speaker's social media contact info on my blog, and the whole twitter feed of #mpb2b hash tag comments. It was so full of nuggets, all I can say is to go read as many of the blogs as you possibly can on the topic.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Here are some sites that share top-notch practices: The Bridge Group's Inside Sales Experts Blog - Trish Bertuzzi and the team over at The Bridge Group are the gold standard when it comes to advice on making your inside sales team greater than it already is. Definitely worth checking out. Great stuff.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Craig Rosenberg, the demand gen expert from Focus.com recently asked me to participate in putting together the eBook, The Focus Experts Guide: Sales and Marketing Pipeline and Funnel. I took a different approach to the discussion, and came up with the concept of a Demand Gen Cloud: With the advent of Social, Sales and Marketing 2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 19, 2009

I'll be writing a more detailed article later, but I wanted to share some tweets of value from the day thus far: jkrohrs : Actionable idea #6 for CMOs in down economy: "Outsource." Only be happy when sales is complaining less than normal about leads" #cmoclub samdecker : In "7 Ideas for CMOs" Session. More done with same $.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2009

I've published articles about how we measure appointment setting outcomes , and that the industry average is roughly 1/3 of introductory meetings move on to further pipeline activity. I'm sure there will be plenty of sales execs out there that will have differing opinions to that stat. What makes a sales ready lead ? Not at all.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I was fortunate enough to be asked by Gerhard Gschwandtner , of Selling Power to speak this week at his Sales Leadership Conference in Philadelphia. The highlight of my day was listening to Seth Godin, blogger and author on topics b2b sales and marketing folks devour. Quote them in blog articles. Write success stories with them.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 3, 2009

I'm deviating from my normal article style and getting down to some math. Back in November I posted an article, Poker Equity and Marketing - Lead Equity. It lead to me reposting the original article, and then to my responding to several questions by email asking me to elaborate. Use Case A - This sales cycle is short.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 12, 2009

The one liner summary: marketing automation and sales enablement with a 2.0 The product is so rich in features that this article alone will not do it justice. It all means greater Marketing success and more closed deals for Sales." sales genius. In the Smashmouth Review of Genius.com Part 1 , we focused on Genius Pro.

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Smashmouth Marketing

APRIL 1, 2010

One of the gating factors happens to be out of their control -- what does the sales team do with a lead once they start working it? In a previous blog article, I shared poll results showing C Level prospects being more than willing to take their first introductory appointment by phone. But what happens next?

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Nigel Edelshain of Sales 2.0: Collection of Sales 2.0 Frankly, when I hear prospects and clients share these negative stories, I ask them why they think others have to resort to sales tactics such as those? In fact, we bring value to each other. Robert Lesser of Direct Impact Marketing Acquiring Minds blog.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Nigel Edelshain of Sales 2.0: Collection of Sales 2.0 Frankly, when I hear prospects and clients share these negative stories, I ask them why they think others have to resort to sales tactics such as those? In fact, we bring value to each other. Robert Lesser of Direct Impact Marketing Acquiring Minds blog.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 22, 2009

It did raise a question though, and before I put much thought into it I decided to ask 7 of my colleagues in the b2b demand gen/sales/marketing space. can typically move your odds of a successful sale ahead positively." It is not a one size fits all strategy…that is the beauty of Sales 2.0. The buyer designs the sales process."

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Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Being one of those tweeps who always barks by mid-January that "if I see one more predictions blog article, I'll puke," I chuckled as I sat down to write. Until then, I give you more thoughts to ponder than predictions: Are marketing's goals aligned with sales? Do your bonuses share quota?

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2009

The one liner summary: marketing automation and sales enablement with a 2.0 The product is so rich in features that this article alone will not do it justice. Genius Enterprise is designed for Marketers with sales in mind," says Joanna Giannotti, Global Marketing Director at ClickSoftware.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 12, 2009

A higher percent of introductory meetings with Dir/Mgr convert to ongoing sales activity. I've published articles about how we measure appointment setting outcomes , and that the industry average is roughly 1/3 of introductory meetings move on to further pipeline activity. What makes sales ready leads ? Not at all.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2009

The one liner summary: marketing automation and sales enablement with a 2.0 The product is so rich in features that this article alone will not do it justice. Genius Enterprise is designed for Marketers with sales in mind," says Joanna Giannotti, Global Marketing Director at ClickSoftware.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 23, 2009

It did raise a question though, and before I put much thought into it I decided to ask 7 of my colleagues in the b2b demand gen/sales/marketing space. can typically move your odds of a successful sale ahead positively.". It is not a one size fits all strategy…that is the beauty of Sales 2.0. RSS for tweets from the clan above.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 6, 2009

I'll be writing a more detailed article later, but I wanted to share some tweets of value from the day thus far: jkrohrs : Actionable idea #6 for CMOs in down economy: "Outsource." Only be happy when sales is complaining less than normal about leads" #cmoclub. You can find a stream of the tweets on twitter search. List building.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 21, 2010

I'll be presenting these 5 Outbound Calling Best Practices later today (4:00-6:30) at Papa Razzi in Burlington at the AA-ISP meeting ( American Association of Inside Sales Professionals ). Check out the article I wrote, Take 3 Hour Lunches , which discusses the day in detail and backs it up with data. Just the tip of the iceberg here.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 25, 2010

Now I'll give you that it probably wasn't the best use of four hours of my life, but I've enjoyed the show so much over its six seasons that I just wanted to take the final episode in as much as I could, and for Smashmouth, that means inspiring a blog article. They sell appointments, not software package XYZ.

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