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How to Grow Your B2B Firm by Making Every Employee a Sales Rep

Marketing Craftmanship

Providing all employees with basic marketing and sales skills can help your B2B firm to grow and succeed. From the front desk to the corner office, “Every Employee a Sales Rep” should be fully ingrained as part of your company’s operating culture.

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The Death of Rolodex Marketing

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Surprisingly, a significant number of professional services firms continue to resist building online brand visibility as a business development strategy. A consistent online presence helps to drive top-of-mind awareness that keeps you high on their list. Your contacts are a diminishing asset, in terms of business development.

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Make the Short List…Or Die Trying

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This is particularly challenging for professional services firms – legal, accounting, investment advisory, technology, management consulting, recruiting or marketing – where top-of-mind awareness (getting people to remember you) is a critical part of business development.

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Five Life Lessons from Doc Martin

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Although a similar-sounding name brings footwear to mind for most Americans, “Doc Martin” is a British television series that follows the fictional life of Dr. Martin Ellingham, a brilliant but extremely grumpy (dog-hating) vascular surgeon whose medical career is sidelined after he develops a fear of blood. Overcome Obstacles.

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Facing the #1 B2B Deal-Killer: “Do You Have Any Clients Just Like Me?”

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In new business development efforts, B2B firms of all types are often challenged by prospective clients with this question: “Do you have any experience working for companies in my industry?”. This is also a way to test the business potential of a new industry vertical without hiring an employee.

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Your Marketing: Is it the Love Child of Warren G. Harding?

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The tenacity of Nan Britton and her family helped to prove that America’s 29th president fathered more than the Teapot Dome corruption scandal. After nearly a century of fighting for the legitimacy of her “love child” daughter, the long-time mistress of President Warren G. Harding, was recently vindicated by new DNA testing.

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PR Playbook: Earning Your Seat at the Senior Management Table

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While waiting for the PR profession-at-large to earn a place at the senior management table, current practitioners should develop their own company-specific strategies that will enable them to rub shoulders on an equal basis with their counterparts in finance, legal, marketing, operations or technology.

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