Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 26, 2009

The examples I used were Cold Calling and Blog Marketing. Cold Calling - delivering a message to someone in a cold call is a process. Many people misunderstand the process of a cold call and lose the attention of the prospect. It's about branding, educating the market, and thought leadership.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Tags: cold calling linkedin b2b marketing inside sales demand gen polls b2b sales.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Tags: cold calling linkedin b2b marketing inside sales demand gen polls b2b sales.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Tags: cold calling marketing inbound marketing b2b marketing outbound marketing b2b siriusdecisions inside sales sales demand gen b2b sales.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 2, 2011

Humanizes the typical "cold call". Our reps have been practicing it and the general consensus is, Put a Face to a Name : Improves the ability to quickly build rapport. Personalizes the conversation. Make dialing all day a bit less mechanical. Looking at the photo means you have to look at their LinkedIn profile first -- scan it.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2009

Tags: marketing tips b2b marketing b2b demand gen product reviews b2b sales demand gen data lead gen cold calling inbound marketing inside sales lead lists.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2009

My favorite: social media techniques augment cold calling - warm calling converts more of your prospects into qualified opportunities. It was an interesting request, but we took it on with a twist. We delivered not 10 reasons, but 15 thoughts to ponder. Thought I'd share it.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 13, 2010

Having read their Sales Tips Blog for quite some time, it was very informative to listen to co-founder, Steve Richard present his tips on how to become a power cold calling machine. There were also the guys from Vorsight. Nothing like Co-Opetition. Below is my keynote address: Inside Sales Trends, Then and Now.What's Your Big Idea?

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Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2011

There are so many demand gen vendors out there, and if you are a demand gen professional in sales or marketing, we've probably called you. Outsourcing some or all of your appointment setting or lead generation activity to a third party vendor is a task that shouldn't be undertaken by responding to one cold call.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The holiday months are GREAT for cold calling. Prospects aren't available during the holidays : Prospects aren't traveling. They are working and planning for next year. They are thinking about new ideas. It's a great time to introduce your company.

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Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2008

The holiday months are GREAT for cold calling. Prospects aren't available during the holidays : Prospects aren't traveling. They are working and planning for next year. They are thinking about new ideas. It's a great time to introduce your company.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 19, 2009

#sales20 jepc : Gerhard Geschwandtner: " Trend 6: customers create companies instead of companies creating customers " #sales20 damphoux : @IDC "companies that reduce their investment in sales in 2009 will be gone in 2010" #sales20 greenleads : "Sales 2.0 combines customer focused processes with Web 2.0

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Meghan - Make sure you are calling the right contacts/targets. Don’t waste time calling the wrong people! Cold calling is a numbers game and you are going to fail. Simply ask the prospects. Ask admins and operators. Aaron - Don't let failure stop you from pressing on.

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Smashmouth Marketing

JUNE 4, 2019

I have one guy who calls it panning for gold. 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). Dialing the phone all day is a task.

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Smashmouth Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2019

Most sales people today have found that using LinkedIn as a research tool to identify specific prospects has been a fantastic way to find the needle in a haystack of potential leads. However, LinkedIn doesn't always show you all the names of the individuals your search produces: So how do you find this specific person's name?

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Smashmouth Marketing

JULY 9, 2019

The report details such information as the right time of day to call, the best day of the week, how the response time to a lead impacts conversion, etc. There were days in my lead gen life where I could have easily left for lunch and not come back for four hours. MIT data shows that that might have been a good idea!

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The report details such information as the right time of day to call, the best day of the week, how the response time to a lead impacts conversion, etc. There were days in my lead gen life where I could have easily left for lunch and not come back for four hours. MIT data shows that that might have been a good idea!

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Mike: Your ebook Don't Cold Call Social Call is a fantastic example of how outbound marketing has shifted by using social media and working smarter, yet we still see the traditional 200 dial per day call center environments. I think that's what you and I have figured out (plus you’re a good bloke anyway).

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Mike: Your ebook Don't Cold Call Social Call is a fantastic example of how outbound marketing has shifted by using social media and working smarter, yet we still see the traditional 200 dial per day call center environments. I think that's what you and I have figured out (plus you're a good bloke anyway).

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 19, 2009

Sometimes a highly-personalized phone and Web contact strategy -often called “Prospecting 2.0” or “Cold Calling 2.0” - yields the best results. But not all customers respond to these kinds of “direct response” marketing campaigns.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 7, 2009

Sometimes a highly-personalized phone and Web contact strategy -often called “Prospecting 2.0” or “Cold Calling 2.0” - yields the best results. But not all customers respond to these kinds of “direct response” marketing campaigns.

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