Sales Engine

JANUARY 5, 2016

Content Marketing Institute Founder Joe Pulizzi said : "Buyer profiling is certainly not new, but understanding behaviors that make a real difference in results is surprisingly lacking. How to Build a Better Buyer Persona Many sales trainers talk about pain points and the concept applies perfectly to content development.

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Sales Engine

MARCH 10, 2016

We all come into SEO from different paths, and I’d like to say mine was unique, but it’s not,” he said. “My Once he understood how it worked and why he’d been successful attracting readership, Lemas started looking at how others were doing it in different spaces, and his career in search engine optimization took off. “It

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 20, 2015

KOGLER: Obviously, the role of salespeople has changed significantly over the last couple of years, not only because they need to be more consultative, but also the nature of B2B products and services that they sell has become increasingly complex. But, I think there are some significant differences as well.

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 22, 2016

We’re uniquely positioned because of our diversity in product offerings, but we compete with large firms that have more resources available to their marketing and sales team. Because of Sales Engine’s content development process, the learning curve was much shorter and we had campaigns running within three months,” she said.

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 22, 2016

We’re uniquely positioned because of our diversity in product offerings, but we compete with large firms that have more resources available to their marketing and sales team. Because of Sales Engine’s content development process, the learning curve was much shorter and we had campaigns running within three months,” she said.

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Sales Engine

MARCH 3, 2016

Coming from a creative agency and media production background that includes Tribeca Enterprises (owners of Tribeca Films and the Tribeca Film Festival), Matt Spangler was looking for an opportunity to apply his skills to disrupt a larger industry. Our head of creative production is from Pixar.

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Sales Engine

MARCH 3, 2016

Coming from a creative agency and media production background that includes Tribeca Enterprises (owners of Tribeca Films and the Tribeca Film Festival), Matt Spangler was looking for an opportunity to apply his skills to disrupt a larger industry. Our head of creative production is from Pixar.

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Sales Engine

DECEMBER 6, 2016

So they task marketing leadership with building a demand generation engine and run into myriad problems. have changed the way that B2B companies market their products and services. have changed the way that B2B companies market their products and services. It’s no wonder that this process falls apart at many different levels.

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Sales Engine

APRIL 20, 2016

That was what we used to do before the emergence of a content-heavy internet, and it worked because sales people were the gatekeepers of information about products and services within a company. That’s done by producing content that adds value, builds trust, and offers knowledge in your area of expertise. And therein lies the rub.

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 28, 2016

I believe the answer lies in understanding the difference between “lead-generation math” and “media math.” Sreenivasan instructs B2B companies that, regardless of size and resources, it all comes down to building an engaged audience and reaching the influencers within it. Instead, ask: Where do my prospects congregate digitally?

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 16, 2016

For me, that looks like marketing generating enough qualified leads so that most of my time is spent having productive sales conversations. The difference is in the mindset that every publisher must possess—that the relationship they develop with their audience is of utmost importance or they can’t sell magazines.

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Sales Engine

MARCH 24, 2016

In an entertaining post titled “ Why Inbound Marketing is Incomplete Marketing ,” Jon Henshaw says that outbound techniques like email, advertising and sponsorships were labeled as ineffective and expensive, and he makes the case for building a complete marketing program. He writes, “The point is to keep doing complete marketing.

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Sales Engine

JULY 21, 2016

It’s like they’re trying to build a house by digging a hole and immediately buying the windows and the wall treatments before meeting with an architect. And even worse, they choose an architect that specializes in bridge building. So what are the building blocks of a lead generation strategy?

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Sales Engine

JULY 21, 2016

It’s like they’re trying to build a house by digging a hole and immediately buying the windows and the wall treatments before meeting with an architect. And even worse, they choose an architect that specializes in bridge building. So what are the building blocks of a lead generation strategy?

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Sales Engine

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Getting them sales ready is a different issue, but suffice it to say: better content = better leads. Build a Content Culture Content marketing done well requires consistency and time—after all, this isn’t a project, or even a series of projects, it’s a lifestyle. It’s just not going to help you at the top of the funnel.

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 17, 2016

Quantity is important in building library and getting found over time, but quality is what makes the difference in terms of an engaged readership. To build an engaged audience, you must understand who your buyers are, what their issues are, and where they get information from. Generate Buyer Personas.

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Sales Engine

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Achieving this goal requires the mindset of a publisher , which is why many innovative organizations are transforming and building their marketing departments into actual media enterprises, including hiring executives with media backgrounds to run their operations. Does that mean that they’re a prospect?

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Sales Engine

JUNE 23, 2016

Ultimately, we want to know where we should be spending marketing dollars that support sales—should you spend money building a database or driving more traffic to your website? It just takes some different research into the numbers—and if you don’t have those numbers, now you know what you need to start measuring.

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Sales Engine

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Quantity is important in building library and getting found over time, but quality is what makes the difference in terms of an engaged readership. To build an engaged audience, you must understand who your buyers are, what their issues are, and where they get information from. Generate Buyer Personas.

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Sales Engine

MARCH 30, 2016

That way, when a salesperson does reach out, the MQL is ready to have a productive qualification conversation. These help make the case to the prospect that they need the kind of product or service our client offers. With each successive email touch, the chance that the prospect will be ready to buy (from you) increases.

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Sales Engine

APRIL 7, 2016

Sales and marketing alignment has been overused because many B2B companies are still operating with an outdated model where marketing builds branding and awareness and sales books appointments. Most misalignment starts with different definitions of what a qualified lead actually is.

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Sales Engine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

If you’re just starting out with content marketing and need to generate traffic to your site, it probably makes sense to have most of your content un-gated so you can build some following and brand awareness. And they’ll be talking about you too by distributing it to their friends and colleagues which builds buzz and energy about your brand.)

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