• HUBSPOT  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013
    5 Simple Ways to Boost the Impact of Your Marketing Automation Workflows
    Whatever situation you find yourself in, simply being aware of the differences in starting conditions -- and using them to guide your workflow optimizations -- can help you deliver a more well-rounded lead to your sales team. That lead might be ready to buy, so you want to make sure a sales rep knows about it. Or Daft Punk. Right.
  • SALES PROSPECTING PERSPECTIVES  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013
    Top 5 Email Prospecting No-Nos
    'Sales Prospecting Perspectives is pleased to bring you a guest post from Chris Snell, Inside Sales Manager at Care.com. How did I even get a job managing an inside sales team without being a Hemingway when it comes to email writing?! Chris Snell has been building inside sales teams since 2002. Promise not to tell anyone?
  • MARKETING ACTION  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013
    Agency Sees Explosive Lead Growth with Marketing Automation
    'NuGrowth Solutions provides outsourced “sales as a service” business development teams, and supports them with exceptional lead generation marketing. As sales and marketing experts, NuGrowth was acutely aware of the need for specialized technology to automate processes and scale communications. Return on Impression.
  • VOLACCI  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013
    Content Marketing Explained
    Content marketing is an established marketing tool used to educate, engage and inform your audience, building a relationship of mutual trust and respect that grows your audience, and eventually sales. 'This brief video looks at the concepts of content marketing , as applied in a way we''ve all seen before - a grocery store magazine. know H.E.
  • SALES INTELLIGENCE VIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013
    How To Optimize Contact Forms for Conversions
    Sales 2.0 'This infographic, courtesy of QuickSprout, shows how such seemingly granular things like how many fields your conversion form has, or how much personal information you ask for, significantly affects how many leads you convert. Get quick tips on optimizing your marketing forms for lead capture.
  • INBOUND MARKETING AUTOMATION BLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013
    Automate or Die
    Blog Posts B2B Marketing Automation Inbound Marketing Automation Sales and Marketing Automation 'Automate or die is a phrase that''s been heard since the first industrial revolution. And it''s perhaps more relevant today than ever before. No related posts.
  • MODERN B2B MARKETING  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013
    How Co-Marketing Can Expand Your Reach
    Webinars are one of the most cost-effective ways for B2B companies to generate leads and sales. For example, here’s a webinar we ran with Marketo,  The Ultimate Revenue Engine: Maximizing Results Through Inside Sales and Marketing Automation. It’s called the Inside Sales Virtual Summit. Easy answers are tough to find.
  • JILL KONRATH'S FRESH SALES STRATEGIES BLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013
    5 Strategies to Eliminate the 'Perceived Risk' Sales Objection
    Your prospect''s perceived risk can quickly turn into a sales objection. 'Nobody wants to make a bad decision. People don''t like the unknown; they fear it. They''re leery about making any change when there''s the possibility of a career-derailing failure. Leverage qualitative data. Ensure transparency. Manage their expectations.
  • SYNECORE  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013
    ModCloth: A Rad (and Obvious) Social Media Strategy
    That "strut-your-stuff" feeling translates to brand affinity and higher sales for the brand. 'Brands should delight. Really, that’s what it all comes down to, right? People, humans, homo sapiens, peeps – whatever you want to call us curious creatures – want to feel special and loved. That’s human nature, baby. PROMISE…). Well, shucks.
  • GROW - PRACTICAL MARKETING SOLUTIONS  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013
    The ultimate guide to becoming a blogging superstar
    Here is an example of an ideal Mission Statement for a B2B Blog: “We implement social media strategies such as on-site and off-site SEO tactics and  sales conversion procedures that optimize our online platform reach and help you accumulate  highly active online devotees.”. 'By Mars Dorian, Contributing {grow} Columnist. Step one. Step two.
  • FEARLESS COMPETITOR  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013
    B2B Buyers Don’t Trust Vendors’ Online Content: CMO Council
    It feeds your sales lead generation programs. For a related post, read “ How to Create Truly Effective Content Maps in Sales Lead Generation programs ” The Need for Unique, Informative and Poignant Content  - But how? There is a reason good B2B sales lead generation programs start with Buyer Personas. My advice?
  • IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENUE  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013
    Top Content Marketing Challenges, Benchmarks, and KPIs
    'by Amanda Batista | Tweet this As buyers navigate the research and sales processes independently, marketing organizations have realized the need for more sophisticated engagement strategies. Impact on sales cycle (36%). The survey uncovered many valuable findings to help marketers assess their strategy and performance metrics.
  • SALES INTELLIGENCE VIEW  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013
    B2B Email Marketing Tips That Work
    It can be really effective in increasing awareness, sales, and engagement, but it can actually repel people if it is done the wrong way. Sales 2.0 'Email marketing is one of the most effective marketing techniques around, but it does have some unique caveats. Focus on creating valuable content. Test out new content.
  • SALES PROSPECTING PERSPECTIVES  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013
    List Development: 4 Ways to Win the War Against Bad Data
    'Sales Prospecting Perspectives is pleased to bring you a guest post from Kevin Stemple, Database Manager at AG Salesworks. This also filters out all the inaccurate emails in your list so inside sale reps are not focusing their time on sending emails that go nowhere. What do you use to find data for your inside sales team
  • PAUL GILLIN  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013
    What Social Media Marketers Should and Shouldn’t Do
    Don’t lead with a sales pitch. Be helpful and sales will come. Indium uses the blogs to provide those solutions and also to capture contact information for sales purposes. Indium’s sales leads grew 600% in the year after the program was launched. thought I’d share my responses here. These Indium Corp.
  • THE POINT  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013
    Content Selling: How Sales Can Better Leverage Marketing Content
    'Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Daniel Chalef, CEO of KnowledgeTree , developers of an intriguing new solution, built for both Salesforce.com and mobile (iOS), that enables sales teams to instantly find, surface, and present the ideal content in any selling situation. B2B Marketing Sales 2.0 Secondly: measurement.
  • JILL KONRATH'S FRESH SALES STRATEGIES BLOG  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013
    Get a Sales Leadership MBA in One Day
    'Join me at the Inside Sales Virtual Sales Summit on June 20th. m joining forces with some of the world’s top sales experts to put on this FREE conference. Here is a sampling of the topics that will be covered: Create Predictable, Scalable Sales Revenue. Best Practices of Sales Analytics.
  • BLOG MY CALLS  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013
    5 Things Every Salesman Should Know About Marketing
    'The line between sales and marketing is increasingly blurry. Marketers are being asked to do traditionally sales oriented tasks like interact with leads, send price quotes and even analyze sales data. The lines between marketing and sales are gone. The sales team is on the front lines. 1) How to use LinkedIn.
  • WEBBIQUITY  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013
    Amazon Shuts Down Minnesota Affiliates
    'It’s official—Amazon will close affiliate accounts in the state of Minnesota due the state legislature’s recent passage of an online sales tax bill. Please be assured that all qualifying advertising fees earned prior to July 1, 2013, will be processed and paid in full in accordance with your regular advertising fee schedule.
  • BIZNOLOGY  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013
    Are you a social media forager?
    If your company has a sales force or a business development department, you probably should evolve past foraging. 'When you put lots of energy, time, and passion — but no plan — into your social media marketing and PR campaigns, you’re a forager. And you surely won’t starve foraging. You’ll always be fed.
  • B2B MARKETING INSIDER  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013
    Marketing That Helps People? An Interview With Jay Baer
    Instead, all companies would find a way to help their customers and prospects live better lives, and every company would consequently be rewarded with attention, sales, loyalty and advocacy. 'If you have read anything on this site, you know my main objective is to be helpful. Do you create marketing that helps people or just more hype?
  • HUBSPOT  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013
    How charity: water Has Reinvented the World of Charitable Giving
    Not only does charity: water partner with other organizations across the globe to provide thousands of people with clean water, they also partner with like brands who are willing to contribute a percent of their product sales to fund water projects. They designed two limited edition shoes and donated $5 from the sale of each one.
  • VIEWPOINT  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013
    All Real Salespeople Love Sales Leads (but there is a tiny caveat)
    'James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. All real salespeople love sales leads and don’t ever believe anyone who tells you differently. genuine sales lead has qualifying information.
  • IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENUE  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013
    Is Eastern Europe the Next Email Marketing Frontier? [CHART]
    Sign up now for Chart of the Week  to get a sales and marketing snapshot in your inbox every week! 'by Andrew Stivelman | Tweet this With  Eloqua Experience Europe  just around the corner, I started to wonder how many, if any, attendees from countries from the former Iron Curtain have participated in previous Eloqua events. ”).
  • WRITTENT  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013
    How B2B Brand Storytelling Can Benefit Your Business
    This new audience wasn’t just there to listen, and suddenly the company’s sales were higher than ever before. 'There once lived a valiant B2B marketer named Lance. Even though he was incredibly clever, he had been tasked with a particularly arduous mission. Not only did he have to write interesting content, he had to create a lot of it.
  • FEARLESS COMPETITOR  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013
    Sales and Marketing Co-Creation – The Power of a Cold Beer to Break Down Walls
    'When creating a sales lead generation program in your company, simple things like sharing a beer can break down walls between Sales and Marketing. At the recent Sales and Marketing 2.0 Why these insights are so critical in your sales efforts so that you can “ fish where the fish are.” Buy them a cold beer!
  • BUYER INSIGHTS  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013
    Sellers Beware: The Project Behind The Purchase
    Adopting the project perspective on the sale is important from the perspective of qualifying and closing the sale. Buying Process Dependencies Executive Sponsor Project Behind The Purchase Sales Success stakeholders 'Behind many big purchases is a project.
  • SALES CHALLENGER  |  MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013
    Overcoming Sales’ Unpredictability
    'As many of you know from our work over the past several years at the CEB Sales Leadership Council and confirmed by your experiences with buyers, the empowered customer has fundamentally changed the nature of selling.  The results of this dramatic shift to our sales approach? This is how we won. What do we mean? We built scorecards.
  • MANHATTAN MARKETING MAVEN  |  MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013
    Run Better Social Media Contests
    Promotion” sounds like it might or might not be a sale. 'Contests are a staple of social media. They generate leads, opt-ins, sharing, comments and virility. The conventional wisdom is that simple contests spawn cost efficient customer engagement that makes people happy.  Few calculate the odds.    Here’s their POV. 
  • SALES PROSPECTING PERSPECTIVES  |  MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013
    3 Mistakes to Avoid When Outsourcing Your Lead Generation Program
    We hire a fair amount of recent graduates, which is a common practice for many teleprospecting firms and internal inside sales/lead qualification teams. 'I am so lucky when it comes to clients. am fortunate enough to work with individuals who truly value what we do and trust our processes. Making every meeting and being accessible is crucial.
  • CRIMSON MARKETING  |  MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013
    3 Lessons to Improve Customer Loyalty
    But why do sales and marketing still have trouble breaking down their barriers ? 'As a marketer, the first thing you understand is that you’re not always operating under measurable value and concrete data. So how do you make marketing a little more “operational”? It’s all about making and keeping promises.  ” 2.
  • JILL KONRATH'S FRESH SALES STRATEGIES BLOG  |  MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013
    Perceived Business Risks Quickly Become Sales Objections
    'I''ll never forget my meeting with the VP of Sales for a hot telecom company. They''d loved my proposal, so I figured we were getting together to kick off the project. I''m afraid I have bad news for you," the VP said. We think your training program is superior to the other ones we''ve looked at. Your pricing is fair. My jaw dropped.
  • HUBSPOT  |  MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013
    9 Insider Tips for Native Advertising That Actually Works
    But it’s not a sales pitch. 'Native advertising is all the rage in publishing right now. The Atlantic and Forbes are doing it, as are the Washington Post and The New York Times. Federated Media, the big ad broker, is pushing native advertising. BuzzFeed, the fast-growing news and gossip site, is building a network to sell native advertising.
  • FEARLESS COMPETITOR  |  MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013
    The Critical Importance of Buyer Personas in B2B Marketing Today
    Done properly, this documentation is invaluable in content marketing, lead nurturing, sales enablement and other areas. Done properly, they help Sales engage with qualified buyers. Jeff Ogden , the Fearless Competitor, is an award-winning marketing expert and President of the  sales lead generation company   Find New Customers.
  • ONPATH  |  MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013
    Deal or No Deal - Recorded Webinar
    The #1 difference between low performing vs. successful sales people is their ability to close. Successful sales people also know how to close higher profit deals. 'Featuring : Selling Power Magazine Duration : 29 Minutes Link : [link]. The more deals they close the more money everyone makes. But closing deals is not enough.
  • B2B LEAD GENERATION BLOG  |  MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013
    Webinar: Inside Sales Virtual Summit reveals selling best practices
    'Tweet A top struggle for sales professionals is optimizing selling time and driving lead generation. On Thursday, June 20, at the Inside Sales Virtual Summit, I will reveal how a billion-dollar telecommunications company addressed this situation by: Bringing science and testing to their calling process, and. Top Experts. Time: 8 a.m.
  • MODERN B2B MARKETING  |  MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013
    Driving Conversions Throughout the Customer Lifecycle
    Marketing automation drives prospects and customers through the revenue funnel with various sub-conversions such as ebooks, webinars, demos, conversations with sales reps, etc. And many have specific content that is served up to prospects based on where they are in the sales cycle. The Forgotten Conversion: Post-Sales.
  • HUBSPOT  |  MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013
    How Small Businesses Saved Me From Living in My Parents' Basement
    Sales training. 'Today kicks off National Small Business Week. have a very personal history with small businesses, and because of that history, I often recommend to many people coming out of college that they try to find a job at a small business if they can. Here''s why. To be fair, the feeling was probably reciprocal.). Email marketing.
  • SYNECORE  |  MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013
    Search Party: Google and the Evolution of SEO
    It is predicted that Google will increase their mobile advertisement sales by another 92% in 2013, raking in a pretty $8.85 'Welcome to the search party, folks. It’s a bit crowded; everyone’s confused, and – oh, what’s that? Someone’s talking really loudly…. OH HEEEYYY Google - How yooouuu doing? SEO is changing real fast. You with me?
  • WEBBIQUITY  |  MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013
    31 Spectacular Web Design Guides, Techniques and Resources
    The Psychology of Why Sexy Websites Suck at Sales by KISSmetrics. And being edgy meant using a slightly different shade of blue as the dominant color. A few adventurous souls did some creative things with Flash, but even then, few people saw these sites because they were invisible to search engines. Maximizes social engagement? pop-ups.
  • FEARLESS COMPETITOR  |  MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013
    The Need for Speed – Ranking in Google with SEO and Engaging an Audience
    Jeff Ogden , the Fearless Competitor, is an award-winning marketing expert and President of the  sales lead generation company   Find New Customers. 'This blog moved to WPEngine earlier this year and this video explains why we made this move – and why you should make this move too. Both for SEO and real life customers.
  • WRITTENT  |  MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013
    Best Keyword Research Tools
    The right keywords help you attract more visitors, make more sales, and rank higher and appear more often in search engine results. 'Effective online marketing starts with thorough keyword research. But knowing the keywords your prospects use to find you online is more than just good SEO — it’s also good market research. Market Samurai.
  • SALES CHALLENGER  |  SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2013
    iPads: Changing the Sales Game
    'Sales operations and enablement teams are constantly looking for new and compelling ways to equip their sales force to better service customers. Many sales organizations are experimenting with mobile solutions—like smartphones and tablets—useful in reaching reps on-the-go. Top iPad Apps for Sales.
  • YOUR SALES MANAGEMENT GURU  |  SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2013
    July Sales Training Tip: YouTube.com
    'Your July Sales Training Tip: YouTube.com. Normally at this time of the year, I am reminding my clients that it’s time to begin building their 3 rd Quarter sales training plans.  Those of you that are regular readers know that Acumen Sales Mangers plan their entire quarter sales training plans at the beginning of each quarter.
  • UNDER THE ARCH  |  SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2013
    The NSA Dragnet & Customer Data Collection
    Demand Generation Marketing Strategy customer data data collection database management database marketing demand generation National Security Agency NSA privacy policy profiling sales 'Four strategies for handling customers’ privacy concerns over data colleciton in light of recently revealed government surveillance programs.
  • FEARLESS COMPETITOR  |  SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2013
    Happy Father’s Day
    'Happy Father’s Day from Jeff Ogden of the sales lead generation company Find New Customers ! Jeff Ogden , the Fearless Competitor, is an award-winning marketing expert and President of the  sales lead generation company   Find New Customers. To all the dads and grandfathers, I wish you all the best.
  • FEARLESS COMPETITOR  |  SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2013
    Highlights of This Week’s Best Posts
    Undoubtedly, many of you don’t tune into FearlessCompeitor.com, the blog of the sales lead generation company , Find New Customers , each and every day – so you missed some great posts. Everyone wants more great content to feed their sales lead generation programs. We’ll share our data when we get it.
  • MODERN B2B MARKETING  |  SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2013
    7 Rules to Live By for Creating Legendary Webinars
    Better still, if you engage your listeners effectively enough, webinars can result in immediate opportunities for sales. By examining your web stats and other metrics, you will likely see a pattern of what attracts interest and what creates sales opportunities. This post contains some key insights I’ve learned. You’re right. Practice.
  • SALES INTELLIGENCE VIEW  |  FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013
    Where CRM and Content Marketing Collide
    They allow you, as a salesperson, to track, measure, and monitor just about every aspect of the sales cycle. Most marketing departments need to gather sophisticated information from the web and deliver that to sales. From there, sales staff can determine the next actions to take to move prospects further down the sales funnel.
  • BLOG MY CALLS  |  FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013
    5 Reasons SMBs Need Call Recording
    3) To measure employee sales skills: Imagine for a moment that you are putting every possible efforts to generate more calls and are using call tracking software to analyze the results. You see a great number of calls coming in every day but yet very few sales. 'Most SMBs wonder if they really need call recording. What’s going on?
  • SALES PROSPECTING PERSPECTIVES  |  FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013
    Sales Prospecting Perspectives Weekly Recap – Week of June 14, 2013
    During the first half of the week, our inside sales reps were passing leads like crazy. The first is from Lori Richardson at Score More Sales , who discusses the power of connection using three lists to grow business. In this article, Pete shares some of his beliefs about the future of sales, social media and teleprospecting.
  • FEARLESS COMPETITOR  |  FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013
    Marketing Made Simple TV goes on hiatus
    Jeff Ogden , the Fearless Competitor, is an award-winning marketing expert and President of the  sales lead generation company   Find New Customers. 'Marketing Made Simple TV stops filming due to software bug. “Quality is of critical importance in Marketing Made Simple TV. ” “Who are you and what do you do?”
  • INSIGHTIQ BLOG  |  FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013
    Why Intelligent Cross Channel Response Attribution is the Way to Go
    The key benefit for cross channel attribution is to provide visibility into which marketing channels are driving sales well and which are performing poorly. This They include: The process of attributing a ‘sale’ to one or more channels is challenging from both a data and analytic perspective. It
  • SALES PROSPECTING PERSPECTIVES  |  FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013
    What's the Difference Between Teleprospecting and Telemarketing?
    The term “inside sales” came about in the 1980s to differentiate from the term “telemarketing,” which had been around since late 1970s. For our purposes, teleprospecting is the function of an inside sales representative; thus, an inside sales rep is a teleprospector. The Sales Process - The Overall Operation.
  • JILL KONRATH'S FRESH SALES STRATEGIES BLOG  |  FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013
    Three Ways to Make Repeat Sales
    Making a sale is always a challenge. When that is rewarded with success, a sales high takes over – if only momentarily. After you’ve made that first sale, how do you turn a one-time buyer into a long-term client? In an interview on this blog, sales consultant Nancy Bleeke says preparation is one key to conversations that sell.
  • FEARLESS COMPETITOR  |  FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013
    Aligning Sales and Marketing in Sales Lead Generation – Why It’s Not Working and What to Do About It
    'Align sales and marketing for sales lead generation | Why It’s Not Working. Each day I hear the drumbeat… Align Sales and Marketing for revenue results. Marketing and Sales are as far apart as ever in most firms. Align Sales and Marketing is a message that is squarely directed at Riders. “Really?”
  • MARKETING ACTION  |  FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013
    5 Key Steps to Selling Through Social Media
    Once you have engaged in a healthy number of non-sales-related conversations, you can ease into conversations about your product – if, and only if, it’s relevant. Don’t do all of this with only a sale in mind – do it for the sake of helping someone fulfill the needs that you have discovered they have. Ask for the sale.
  • MODERN B2B MARKETING  |  FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013
    Get More out of your Marketing Automation with Interactive Content
    Companies use interactive content for a variety of marketing goals from branding to top of the funnel lead generation to collecting relevant information for profile building and scoring, to nurturing—both pre and post-sale. Forescout uses personality quizzes to perform pre-sales qualification and deliver targeted whitepapers.
  • PUZZLE MARKETER  |  FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013
    How to Improve Email Deliverability [Infographic]
    Align with sales to ensure your subscribers know the email is communicated and expected. 'If one of your digital marketing tactics is email marketing then you understand that the most important aspect is actually getting your content to your subscribers. This is one of the most common questions from marketers. your IP address reputation.
  • INBOUND SALES NETWORK  |  FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013
    Leave Your Ego at the Door
    'Every time I sit down with sales executives from Fortune 500 companies to small startups, they all start with the same story: just how “amazing” they are. This is why so many sales and marketing strategies fail before they even start. They will go on for hours and hours if you let them….and What they really want are results.
  • HUBSPOT  |  FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013
    An Insider's View: Inbound Marketing in Europe Versus the U.S.
    4) European marketers don''t align with their sales teams as well as U.S. marketers align with their sales teams. In the same report, we found that even though European marketers are setting the right kind of priorities and metrics to measure their team’s success, there is still evidence of a Marketing-Sales divide in most companies.
  • IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENUE  |  THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013
    Back to Basics: 6 Quick Social Media Marketing Tips
    sales), and to get your content found on Twitter. personally follow mostly sales and marketing people on Twitter, so I have lists of the marketing and sales folks whose tweets I know I don’t want to miss. 'by Lauren Harper | Tweet this Social media is still a new frontier for many marketers. LaurenEHarper is awesome!
  • FATHOM  |  THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013
    Using CTAs to “Direct” Your Website Visitors
    Assuming that your business website holds all the information necessary to convince and elicit a sale from a potential customer, are you getting your site visitors to that information appropriately?… There’s some psychology involved, and some content marketing involved as well.
  • SYNECORE  |  THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013
    New Study: The Widening Digital Gap between the Consumer and Marketer
    When it comes to the actual purchase process (the real goal here), the consumers surveyed most prefer email for both initial product research (37%) and post-sale follow-up (52%). 'The majority of marketing studies tend to focus on either the consumer or producer (business) side of the equation, essentially only telling half of the story.
  • FEARLESS COMPETITOR  |  THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013
    What’s the Future of Business? – @briansolis on Marketing Made Simple TV
    Marketing Made Simple TV “TV on the Web” is a weekly show from the sales lead generation company Find New Customers. 'Brian Solis. Brian is also author of the new book, What’s the Future of Business? ” In this show, you’ll learn: Why experiences matter to your business. Just click the Yes!
  • SALES PROSPECTING PERSPECTIVES  |  THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013
    AG Olympics: Using Team Building to Motivate Inside Sales Reps
    It is good to create healthy competition amongst your sales team so people feel more involved in the office. Instead of competing with our sales team, we drafted four brand new teams. One of our BDRs, Marc Spinella , is responsible for “Sales Enablement”. 'Today is an exciting d­­ay in our office.
  • BLOG MY CALLS  |  THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013
    Must-Have Characteristics of Successful Marketers
    Social media marketing, online engagement, and content marketing have blurred the line between marketing and sales. Marketers will frequently find themselves in sales-type discussions with leads, and prospecting leads directly via social media or content. '- Curiosity - Marketers must be curious. Why doesn''t anyone read my blog?
  • MARKETING ACTION  |  THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013
    Catch Guy Kawasaki at the Inside Sales Virtual Summit
    'June 20 th , 8 am to 3 pm PDT, the Inside Sales Virtual Summit launches as the world’s largest online sales summit. Tracks include inside sales, marketing, social, sales, and business. Be a part of the biggest online professional sales event ever! Inside Sales Virtual Summit. Or is Sales the New Marketing?” 
  • BLOG MY CALLS  |  THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013
    5 Biggest Marketing Time-Wasters
    Research indicates that your sales team won''t end up looking at or sharing most of the collateral you produce. Our marketing team was wasting so much time producing collateral that no one ever read that now we don''t produce sales collateral anymore. Sales collateral was a waste of time. '1) Getting Bogged Down in Technology.
  • BIZNOLOGY  |  THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013
    Content Marketing and Your Buying Cycle
    If you’re involved in more complex sales, be sure your content channels all make it incredibly obvious how a customer can reach out to the appropriate person to initiate the final sales process. 'Photo credit: Shannon Paul. Those are fairly common ways of breaking your audience down. Detective. Judge. The Innocent Buystander.
  • FEARLESS COMPETITOR  |  THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013
    Top B2B Marketing Expert Looking for Companies with a Problem with Sales Leads
    'Is your company struggling to create enough sales leads to keep sales funnels full? You need a good sales lead generation program to create quality sales leads. With a lack of qualified sales leads, you need to diagnose the problem. If so, we should talk. list of our marketing awards is below.
  • ENGAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013
    Why Content Marketing Is Good—For Me and You and Everybody Else
    As content marketers, our main duty is to the client, who hires us not to change the world but to increase sales. 'Recently I was teasing a colleague who is making a bundle teaching a workshop on “storytelling” to a group of communication professionals, who presumably already know how to tell stories. Put it this way. The CMAs? More than 700. What
  • FIFTH GEAR ANALYTICS  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013
    Activity, Achievement and Firewood
    It is often difficult to fully make the correlation between a series of marketing campaigns and qualified leads which eventually lead to a sale.  sent X amount of e-mails, had Y amount of clicks, and asked the sales team to follow up on Z amount of “leads”).  Marty Maynard is a Sales Engineer at SIGMA Marketing Insights.
  • BLUE FOCUS MARKETING  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013
    Facebook Home – The Pursuit of Social WOW for Brands
    Edelman – Global Co-leader, Digital Marketing and Sales Practice, McKinsey & Company. 'On April 12, in an exclusive partnership with AT&T, HTC released the exciting new HTC First. The First has many new features , perhaps the most exciting of which is the inclusion of the immersive new mobile platform Facebook Home. Features.
  • SYNECORE  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013
    Social Commerce: I Know You’re Selling Me Something
    That includes consumer engagement and brand loyalty as well as lead generation and sales. However, as we saw in the second scenario, there is (or better be) more to a brand than the blatant pursuit of product sales. Pinning away: Pinterest is Sales-Actionable. It creates a user experience that, by itself, is sales-actionable.
  • FEARLESS COMPETITOR  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013
    7 Keys to Lead Scoring Success – for your sales lead generation programs
    How do you ensure you don’t give unqualified leads to Sales. By assigning values based on likely buying behaviors, you can determine the optimal time to pass the lead to Sales. Why don’t you download this free content and work on your sales lead generation programs today? '7 Keys to Lead Scoring Success.
  • BLOG MY CALLS  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013
    6 Reasons to Score Sales Calls for Performance
    The first and most important reason to score sales calls for performance is to gather close rate data. In other words, did the call end in a sale or not? Close rate data will tell sales managers, executives, and salespeople what percentage of their calls result in close deals/appointments/whatever the goal of the call is.
  • MODERN B2B MARKETING  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013
    No Lead Left Behind
    priority 1 tickets get a response time in 60 minutes or less, priority 2 in four hours etc), they are a growing presence found in use between marketing and sales departments. We all know the old adage of marketing chucking leads over the fence to sales. Sales ignores 99% of them with no follow up and no outreach. The Old Way.
  • BLOG MY CALLS  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013
    The 5 Most Popular Marketing Webinars in Our Extensive Webinar Library
    3) How to Use SMS Marketing to Increase Sales For Your Business. 'We have more than 65 webinars in our extensive Marketing Webinar Library. We host 1-2 marketing webinars each week. We invite experts to participate in these webinars with us. They generate a great deal of interest and a ton of leads. The answer is simple: traffic. Awesome.
  • IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENUE  |  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013
    6 Ways To Maximize Your Webinars With Automation Technology
    Live webinars are appealing for marketers because an online event provides an effective way to support brand awareness, demonstrate thought leadership and credibility, and support an engagement entry point through the sales cycle (all the way to product demonstrations). Marketing automation adds a power punch to your webinars.
  • SALES CHALLENGER  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013
    Why Reps Struggle to Close the Sale
    'In our last blog post , we discussed how delivering tailored insights to customers has become table stakes in an era of sales where customers are better informed and more empowered than ever before. That said, a rep’s ability to successfully innovate and exercise judgment in the sale relies heavily on questioning skills.
  • B2B LEAD BLOG  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013
    What is Hubspot? Marketing Automation Software Series
    HubSpot’s contacts timeline makes it easy for your sales team to do granular research on the history of a lead in an interface that is intuitive and easy to use. Facilitating a smooth hand-off to sales. When leads are ready to talk to your sales team, HubSpot has a number of tools to make that hand-off seamless.
  • HUBSPOT  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013
    7 Trailblazing Brands That Won By Being First
    The sale of diamonds in the United States increased by 55%. 'There are plenty of good brands, smart business owners, and savvy marketers that are both risk-averse and successful. They follow trends, do their research, and identify good opportunities to capitalize on. Then there are the trailblazers. The result? DeBeers. LinkedIn. PayPal.
  • SALES PROSPECTING PERSPECTIVES  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013
    Quality Data is the Key to Success for Inside Sales
    big challenge is attempting to maintain a consistent lead volume from each new inside sales rep as we add to the team. Many inside sales teams figure a big change is necessary in order to affect the positive output they’re hoping to see. Put simply, quality data is the core to the success of an inside sales team.
  • VIEWPOINT  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013
    How B2B Marketing and Sales Alignment is Like a Relay Race
    'At a recent high school track meet I cheered on our team in several heats of the 4 x 100 and 4 x 400 relays and mused that we can look to track and field athletics for inspiration and tactics for marketing and sales alignment. As prospects convert to qualified leads, the handoff to sales should be smooth and accurate. Practice.
  • SYNECORE  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013
    Moneyball: Lessons on Effective Inbound Marketing for Business
    The big guys don’t care what the direct correlation is between how many pieces of online content they have to create to generate a sale. This strategy, dubbed Moneyball, focused on the idea of using statistics to help build a team of players who “traditionally were not good” or were past their prime. In short, they need inbound marketing.
  • WRITESPARK  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013
    Packaging Case Studies to Increase Their Promotional Value
    Case Studies Content Marketing Sales Materials 'Go to the website of many technology companies and find the link for case studies. The page that appears is likely a long, undifferentiated list of all the case studies the company has ever produced. What a lost promotional opportunity!
  • MARKETING ACTION  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013
    The 5 (Reasons) and 10 (Ways) to Nurture
    'Companies that nail lead nurturing generate 50% more sales-ready leads, at 33% lower cost per lead, according to a report by Forrester Research. There are five solid reasons for this, beginning with the nature of B2B sales: 1.     B2B buyers are not impulse purchasers. This means a stretched-out period of consideration.
  • FEARLESS COMPETITOR  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013
    Marketing Made Simple TV offers sponsors more value than ever!
    'In 2012, Marketing Made Simple TV had sponsors like Eloqua and InsideView, but we offer more value than ever before – delivering marketing qualified sales leads. Marketing Find New Customers lead-generation Marketing Made Simple TV Marketing qualified leads sales-challenges Until now! Everything has changed. That’s right.
  • BLOG MY CALLS  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013
    Why is Call Recording Less Expensive Than Mystery Shopping?
    We try to understand when they don''t value the marketing or sales analytics that LogMyCalls can provide. 'When we tell people that mystery shopping is less expensive than actuall call recording, they generally don''t believe it. mystery shopping). It isn''t. Call recording from LogMyCalls is MUCH less expensive than mystery shopping. We try.
  • B2B INTERNET MARKETING STRATEGIES  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013
    How SaaS Gamification REALLY Works
    SaaS gamification can blur the line between SaaS marketing and SaaS product management to make the point of sale just another “level up” rather than the big, scary event it normally is for customers. SaaS Gamification Taps into Basic Instincts. Hunting—working as a team to bring down prey. Collecting valuable stuff. Discovering patterns.
  • FEARLESS COMPETITOR  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013
    5 Tips to Get SEO Results from Your WordPress Blog
    My goal was to use SEO results to rank highly, because it is the blog of the sales lead generation company Find New Customers. For instance, one of our keywords is “sales lead generation” and we link that to [link]. '5 Tips to Get SEO Results from your WordPress blog. Identify your keywords. This is a key first step.
  • B2B VOICES  |  TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013
    Can B2B Brands Inspire?
    Research can provide not only interesting insights for the business and sales teams, but also gives marketers and opportunity to further differentiate  our companies from the competition. 'When you think of five brands that inspire you which names come to mind? Think of a few right now. I’ll wait. Let’s rephrase the question.
  • PUZZLE MARKETER  |  MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013
    Blogging Leads to Sales
    Some companies use blogs less as a sales tool and more as a personality disseminator. Getting a press release out into the media can be a much more daunting task then publishing a quick post announcing the release of a new product or the hiring of a new sales person. How does blogging increase sales? What is a blog? Good luck!
  • FOLLOW THE LEAD  |  MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013
    A drinking game you should play at work
    'How often, during sales calls, do you use internal jargon that is not part of your prospects’ vocabularies? Probably much more than you realize, which is why Factor 8 president and sales expert Lauren Bailey recommends playing a drinking game at work. Sales Really! Plus, you’ll be well-hydrated!
  • THE POINT  |  MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013
    Does a Demo Ever Make Sense as a Demand Generation Offer?
    Secondly, what sales rep doesn’t like demo leads? demo request is almost always a Sales Accepted Lead (SAL). Demos short cut the demand generation process and gives sales what they want, namely someone with a short-term interest in the product they’re selling. It’s easy to understand the appeal that demo offers provide.
  • SALES PROSPECTING PERSPECTIVES  |  MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013
    Playing the Inside Sales Game of Thrones
    So, why am I rambling about a television series when this is a blog about sales? 'I am a huge fan of the HBO series, “Game of Thrones.” Admittedly, I have not read the books, but I do plan on doing so in the near future. It is not how television usually works, where the main characters survive all perils. Are you asking the right questions?
  • VOLACCI  |  MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013
    The Advent of Tumblr and Its Place in Social Media Marketing
    Word of caution: Traditional marketing offers, promos and sales won’t work here. 'With Yahoo’s recent acquisition of Tumblr, many have asked themselves what these two companies could possibly have in common. Not much, but Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, is making an active effort to revamp the tech giant’s image. .  . Perhaps you should, too.
  • MODERN B2B MARKETING  |  MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013
    The Changing Role of the CIO and Aligning Organizational Priorities
    We exist to support our business counterparts in delivering business results and differentiation; to help Sales sell more effectively, to help Engineering deliver a better product to the market faster and error free, to help our Marketing teams market better, etc. IT in a Silo. In the bad old days, IT tended to work in a bit of a silo. 02, G.
  • SAVVY B2B MARKETING  |  MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013
    Making allies of your enemies - Kona DataSearch
    Its goal is to help sales people better find their key sales content. Let’s be honest, is there anything earth-changing about a sales database? 'Innovation. We all know it’s important for business growth but how do we get to it? Where does it come from and how do we grab that elusive minx? Much better. Yawn, right?
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