Sales Engine

AUGUST 22, 2016

Given their mission to help wealth management firms grow and thrive as stewards of their client’s investments, First Rate needed an innovative approach that would help empower investors and advisors to simplify and better understand their financial world. We’re still trying to figure it out,” said Traxler. “We

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 22, 2016

Given their mission to help wealth management firms grow and thrive as stewards of their client’s investments, First Rate needed an innovative approach that would help empower investors and advisors to simplify and better understand their financial world. We’re still trying to figure it out,” said Traxler. “We

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand Generation 120

Sales Engine

AUGUST 20, 2015

A salesperson who can tell a compelling business story is going to make me care; she’s going to show me how her product or service helps another human being. I helped them shape that new strategic story and share it internally with their employees as well as externally with their customers and strategic partners.

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 2, 2017

The Fallacy of the Linear Buying Process Most marketing and sales leaders in the business-to-business world know that customers now direct the buying process. Previously, sales representatives controlled what prospects could learn, when, and from whom.

Lead Ranking 168

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Sales Engine

JULY 13, 2016

Given the imperative to add gravitational pull to your sales funnel under a changed marketing paradigm, you need a strategy and appropriate marketing technology stack that can help you discover, qualify, and nurture leads to the point of sales-readiness. When a potential customer downloads webinar X, you know he is interested in X.

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Sales Engine

JULY 13, 2016

Given the imperative to add gravitational pull to your sales funnel under a changed marketing paradigm, you need a strategy and appropriate marketing technology stack that can help you discover, qualify, and nurture leads to the point of sales-readiness. When a potential customer downloads webinar X, you know he is interested in X.

Top of Funnel 120

Top of Funnel Conversion Marketing Automation Services Sales Qualified Leads 120

Sales Engine

JUNE 20, 2016

But as most marketing and sales leaders in modern B2B companies know (or have figured out really fast), customers have taken a lot more ownership over their own buying process. The Fallacy of the Linear Buying Process Until the mid 2000’s, sales representatives controlled what prospects could learn, when, and from whom.

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 25, 2016

For most companies, it likely started with marketing automation software, a website makeover, Search Engine Optimization, Pay-per-click advertising, and Customer Relationship Management software. AMEX has developed the media property called OpenForum which is a CEO Boot Camp designed to help women business owners.

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Sales Engine

DECEMBER 21, 2015

The mistake most companies make is putting all of this responsibility onto their existing marketing leader and expecting he or she can manage all of this new incremental work while still running the annual customer event, product marketing, a few key tradeshows, and whatever else made up their day job before entering this new world.

Budget Programs 120

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Sales Engine

MARCH 10, 2016

The blog that started out as a rant between three or four people caught on to where he was later approached by the Orange County Register for help with their Angels blog. “I I was in effect stealing their traffic, so they came to me and asked me to start writing for them. Original ideas are rewarded because the human being is the emphasis.

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Sales Engine

JUNE 23, 2016

Ultimately, the only metric that matters is total cost of customer acquisition. Calculating Total Cost of Customer Acquisition Because buyers are engaged with both sales and marketing as they move through the sales funnel, it no longer makes sense to draw a hard line between sales and marketing expenditures.

Lead Ranking 120

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Sales Engine

APRIL 24, 2018

By creating quality content like blog posts, white papers, eBooks, infographics, videos, podcasts, and case studies, you can connect with potential buyers in meaningful ways that help solve their most pressing problems. Imagine how your customers would like that! Simply put, you need to do content marketing.

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Sales Engine

JULY 21, 2016

Sure, you can start writing some blogs and you might get some inbound traffic, but the leads will be substandard and it won’t help you hit growth numbers of 20% or more. Getting information on customers requires more of a premium, conversion-oriented asset—something that they’ll be willing to give up their information to receive.

Lead Generation 120

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Sales Engine

JULY 21, 2016

Sure, you can start writing some blogs and you might get some inbound traffic, but the leads will be substandard and it won’t help you hit growth numbers of 20% or more. Getting information on customers requires more of a premium, conversion-oriented asset—something that they’ll be willing to give up their information to receive.

Lead Generation 120

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 17, 2016

Because content marketing done properly is a process and not a series of projects , here’s a 5-step process that will more easily help you develop multi-media content at once that can be plugged into your editorial calendar: 1. All of these questions will help you determine the topics and mediums that will best resonate with your audience.

Thought Leadership 120

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Sales Engine

MARCH 30, 2016

In the meantime, you can supply newly-created MQLs with a series of emails that prime them with useful information and help keep your company top-of-mind. They typically contain facts, statistics, charts and graphs of information designed to be helpful to buyers. They will still need to be evaluated by a salesperson, eventually.

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Sales Engine

MAY 12, 2016

The main goal is qualified leads for sales people , which means that if you’re not converting anonymous traffic to your website, blogs and social media, you’re not generating leads—you’re just branding, and that turns your overall customer acquisition costs into a much more expensive proposition.

Top of Funnel 120

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Sales Engine

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Because content marketing done properly is a process and not a series of projects , here’s a 5-step process that will more easily help you develop multi-media content at once that can be plugged into your editorial calendar: 1. All of these questions will help you determine the topics and mediums that will best resonate with your audience.

Thought Leadership 120

Thought Leadership Top of Funnel Ad Building Buyer Personas 120

Sales Engine

AUGUST 19, 2015

Using total revenue versus what you spend to acquire a customer is definitely the metric you should be using. Click below for an infographic to help you figure it out. Absolutely true.

Lead Ranking 120

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 14, 2016

Here are 6 ways to use these skills to produce high-quality stories that grow audiences and increase sales: Find your twist: Talk to corporate insiders and customers to find innovations and success stories. What did you learn that will help you to do even better with your next story or blog post?

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 16, 2016

Adding value and finding out more information about what they’re interested in and how we can help them through their own buying journey is of utmost importance in content follow up. It could also be the encouragement of signing up for a future webinar on an appropriate topic. Bottom-of-the-funnel sales consultations is a repeatable process.

Sales Management 120

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Sales Engine

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Adding value and finding out more information about what they’re interested in and how we can help them through their own buying journey is of utmost importance in content follow up. It could also be the encouragement of signing up for a future webinar on an appropriate topic. Bottom-of-the-funnel sales consultations is a repeatable process.

Sales Management 120

Sales Management Top of Funnel Cold Calling Content 120

Sales Engine

APRIL 13, 2016

Today’s customer finds solutions to their problems by searching the internet first, and talking to sales reps much later in the process. The right approach to content development is to identify the high probability pain points that your prospect is experiencing and develop content that helps them get rid of that pain.

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Sales Engine

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Perhaps that’s a specific customer segment that has similar issues that you solve. A good place to start may be with your best (and most profitable) customers. Figure out what their issues are and how you’re solving their problems and turn that around in your content to attract similar prospects.

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