Inbound Marketing, Outbound Marketing, Marketing Automation and Social Media are all brought to the introductory level so that our reps become marketers, not just sales reps. With unlimited data licenses at four vendors, search tools that didn't exist just four years ago, autodialers, power dialers, Google alerts, social media and other techniques -- this business is a specialized trade now and the new skills need teaching. Over the past four months Green Leads has been starting new reps on the first Monday of each month. We have to have our reps deliver. MORE >>

The same thing happens when we read something from someone we don't know - and the proliferation of social media puts an awful of "new" people in front of us. Guest post by Paul Simon , Sharper Content, @paulcontentman. We all form instant impressions when meeting someone new. Guess what? As Michael Damphousse says, "Good content creates value. Value creates trust. And, yes, trust creates leads.". On the Internet, it's all about content, whether you have a product to sell, service to offer or leads to pursue. Can poor writing, misspellings and grammatical errors interfere? MORE >>

Awards Ceremony, of which Green Leads was a finalist in two categories--Sales & Marketing Alignment and Social Media. During the opening of the Sales & Marketing 2.0 Conference this week, Gerhard "G-Ice" Gschwandtner promised that he would perform a RAP to close the event Tuesday night. He did just that with comic Jeff Applebaum during the Sales & Marketing 2.0 The ultimate reward for those diehards that lasted till the end of the day was watching G-Ice bringing down the house MORE >>

Search engine marketing (SEM), search Engine Optimization (SEO), blogging and social media strategies all contribute to solid Google rankings. Tony Soprano: "Every decision you make affects every facet of every other #?%!% thing.". ok, the Tony Soprano thing was just a late addition after I read some hilarious quotes from the show on IMDB last night, and realized they had some.ahem. relevancy -- just a little fun ;). For years the world of b2b marketing has used outbound marketing as a source of lead generation. Then there was the Google. Classic inbound marketing. MORE >>

Are you adapting to new areas that need adapting, such as Social Media? I recently was asked to participate in Ambal Balakrishnan's ( @ambal ) ebook, to be published at year'd end and then available from her blog, Connect the Docs. She asked a bunch of B2B marketing experts for their predictions for 2010. Being one of those tweeps who always barks by mid-January that "if I see one more predictions blog article, I'll puke," I chuckled as I sat down to write. For the full text, you'll have to check back with Ambal, and I'll promote it as well. Do your bonuses share quota? Too bad. MORE >>