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. Thanks Craig! Enjoyed doing the interview.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 12, 2010

I started penning this piece about summer last week when AG Salesworks published a great article touching on some of the tactical issues of lead gen in the summer. Fewer people working, right? Lead gen is about pipeline too, and working hard during the summer sets up the fall for success as well. It makes some sense, right?

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2013

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. Compared to a purchased list or even a list of prospects warmed up with other marketing assets, an inbound list is the cream of the crop. Create great content.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 26, 2010

Although I love taking a little credit, his recent articles have been full of LinkedIn Goodness. Looking for companies in the field of Demand Gen that work with Appointment Setting ? Let's try another one.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 14, 2010

That said, you still have hundreds of Google Reader articles to scan, a few new sales enablement presentations to review before publishing them to Slideshare, and two meetings to approve in the Appointment Setting queue. Opportunities - Work sales opportunities in a team mode. Today at Enterprise 2.0

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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. Blog article Part 3? Ok, fair warning.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 24, 2009

Then one day I stumbled on Smashing Magazine's article that showed creative 404 pages. To see it work, you can type any url address at www.green-leads.com that may not exist, like [link] or yourname.html , whatever. com/" and it will work. It happens. Now that's a good use of someone's typo mistake.

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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. Blog article Part 3? Ok, fair warning.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 21, 2009

Then one day I stumbled on Smashing Magazine's article that showed creative 404 pages. To see it work, you can type any url addres at www.green-leads.com that may not exist, like [link] or yourname.html , whatever. com/" and it will work. It happens. Now that's a good use of someone's typo mistake.

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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. Are you going to take time to reflect on what's working, what's failing and make changes? She asked a bunch of B2B marketing experts for their predictions for 2010.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 21, 2010

Don't dial until the list can be worked top-to-bottom in one sweep without a struggle. Use them to work smarter. Check out the article I wrote, Take 3 Hour Lunches , which discusses the day in detail and backs it up with data. Remove bad contacts, or research and replace them. Just the tip of the iceberg here.

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Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

The article links to all sorts of online resources. When I stumble upon a recipe, food article, cooking technique or other foodie crumb that must be tried, I file it in there and make a point of cycling through the folder a couple times per week. An example from my GTDinbox is a folder called Food Ideas.

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Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

The article links to all sorts of online resources. When I stumble upon a recipe, food article, cooking technique or other foodie crumb that must be tried, I file it in there and make a point of cycling through the folder a couple times per week. An example from my GTDinbox is a folder called Food Ideas.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2010

It works, right? There's a lot of information in this blog, so make sure you take the time to peruse the several years' worth of articles. Inbound Marketing is all the rage these days, and why shouldn't it be? At least, that's what HubSpot clients are saying (and we're clients, so I can vouch for it).

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2009

I'll continue retweeting and cross-posting these four gentlemen while keeping my eyes open for opportunities to work with them. In fact, we bring value to each other. Robert Lesser of Direct Impact Marketing Acquiring Minds blog. Brian Carroll of Intouch: B2B Lead Generation blog. Nigel Edelshain of Sales 2.0: Collection of Sales 2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2009

I'll continue retweeting and cross-posting these four gentlemen while keeping my eyes open for opportunities to work with them. In fact, we bring value to each other. Robert Lesser of Direct Impact Marketing Acquiring Minds blog. Brian Carroll of Intouch: B2B Lead Generation blog. Nigel Edelshain of Sales 2.0: Collection of Sales 2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2008

Create materials that document your green work. Clients want to work with companies that are doing the right thing. A few articles worth reading: The Environmental Leader, a green briefing for executives, states that more than 70 percent of directors at U.S. Beware of Greenwashing.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Create materials that document your green work. Clients want to work with companies that are doing the right thing. A few articles worth reading: The Environmental Leader, a green briefing for executives states, More than 70 percent of directors at U.S. Beware of Greenwashing.

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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.

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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. So even when we engage the C/VP level prospect, 33% of the time we will secure a meeting with a lesser title. Does this mean the meetings will be less valuable?

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 12, 2009

We always start high, by working from the C/VP level down, but many times when we connect with a senior executive they want their company to learn more about the vendor, but they delegate the meeting to a lower level. A higher percent of introductory meetings with Dir/Mgr convert to ongoing sales activity. Not at all.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 8, 2009

This blog article is obviously not enough to serve every topic, but as an introduction and overview, it will set the stage for future discussion. The two should work together to align these goals. There was a definite overlap of key discussion points that I believe is critical for all sales and marketing execs to consider.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 22, 2009

This blog article is obviously not enough to serve every topic, but as an introduction and overview, it will set the stage for future discussion. There was a definite overlap of key discussion points that I believe is critical for all sales and marketing execs to consider.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2009

Since then, we've had the opportunity to work with and evaluate Genius Enterprise. The product is so rich in features that this article alone will not do it justice. In the Smashmouth Review of Genius.com Part 1 , we focused on Genius Pro. The one liner summary: marketing automation and sales enablement with a 2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2009

Since then, we've had the opportunity to work with and evaluate Genius Enterprise. The product is so rich in features that this article alone will not do it justice. In the Smashmouth Review of Genius.com Part 1 , we focused on Genius Pro. The one liner summary: marketing automation and sales enablement with a 2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Add social media to the mix, but don't get over-hyped about it and forget some of the proven lead gen techniques that work. You've invested in a good list, get your inside team, your reps, or an outsourced vendor to work it. in this article). Call it Lead Gen 2.0, Don't just call and sell though. Engage in a conversation.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Add social media to the mix, but don't get over-hyped about it and forget some of the proven lead gen techniques that work. You've invested in a good list, get your inside team, your reps, or an outsourced vendor to work it. in this article). Call it Lead Gen 2.0, Don't just call and sell though. Engage in a conversation.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 12, 2009

Since then, we've had the opportunity to work with and evaluate Genius Enterprise. The product is so rich in features that this article alone will not do it justice. In the Smashmouth Review of Genius.com Part 1 , we focused on Genius Pro. The one liner summary: marketing automation and sales enablement with a 2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2005

We have lots of time til this asteroid gets close enough to pose a danger in 2880, but until then there are pleanty of good minds working on solutions to protect us from these asteroids with predictible paths. They charge for their articles. The summary of the gravity tractor article is available in the Nov 10 podcast.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 29, 2009

It was interesting that in both cases, the attendees were buzzing with discussion about the need for alignment of sales and marketing so I blogged an article about it earlier this week. It’s not uncommon for sales people to ignore qualified leads simply because the first couple they called didn’t work out. As long as sales 2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 11, 2009

It was interesting that in both cases, the attendees were buzzing with discussion about the need for alignment of sales and marketing so I blogged an article about it earlier this week. It’s not uncommon for sales people to ignore qualified leads simply because the first couple they called didn’t work out. As long as sales 2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

You can post a wealth of great information on your website through blogs, white papers, articles, and more. How Does B2B Content Syndication work? It could be about your perspective on the industry, a problem your typical customer faces, or how your solution works. That helps to create organic traffic.

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Smashmouth Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2004

Also, I started working on my limit game. Working through Bob Ciaffone's books. They read like a collection of articles so are very easy to work through. I mistakenly broke the template for pokerblogs.com, so I haven't been able to post for a bit. Lots of tourney wins. I see this as my weakest area.

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Smashmouth Marketing

APRIL 30, 2007

Snipped from Archinect.com, this article shows a brilliant application of harnessing wind energy -- "Average vehicle speeds on the valley highways are approximately 70 mph. Using average annual wind speeds of 10 mph as a baseline, each single wind turbine will produce 9,600KwH of energy, annually (enough to fully power my 700 s.f. apartment).

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