Sales Engine

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Let's talk about how we can help your Sales team hit their goals. The clock is ticking on 2017 for the Marketing department but it's not to late. Sales Engine develops and executes marketing programs that generate more leads, faster, and less expensive than you can do in-house. Permalink.

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Sales Engine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

And you can only sell advertising when lots of people come to your site on a regular basis, which means that you have to be a reliable source for helping to find what people are looking for. Search engines have a vested interest in helping you find exactly what you’re looking for—and people aren’t looking for sales pitches.

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 13, 2015

Examples in case studies help people latch on to stories. From when you're a baby, there are parables and stories that help us understand things better. People are trying to put whatever you tell them into a story, and it helps them if you give it to them straight. Many times that comes through story.

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Sales Engine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

They won’t help your sales people meet quota. They won’t help you track where your prospects entered into the sales cycle and became customers. Those tried and true methods will probably continue to work (we do them too), but not to the extent that they once did. They won’t attract top performing salespeople to your organization.

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Sales Engine

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

My recommendation is to know your product and your competitor’s products better than your consumers do, and be the expert at helping, asking, and informing. Then collaborate with them to come up with a content strategy that helps solve the prospect’s problem and is not just about your products and services.

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Sales Engine

APRIL 14, 2016

Quinn concludes that even though creative thinking in B2B can be more challenging, thinking like an industry disrupter can help. And what a difference would that be?” Think like your industry’s inevitable disrupter “We’re all people that are trying to run our businesses better regardless of what our titles are,” she continues.

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Sales Engine

MAY 22, 2016

They are walking encyclopedias who gain the trust of their customers and prospects because they are Sherpas who can help prevent buyers from making a major mistake! In Neil’s words “How you sell it is more important than what you sell”. Create value, don’t communicate value. Some people comment that the “Selling profession is dead”.

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Sales Engine

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

So we made a few big changes that have helped us achieve the growth trajectory that we want: We gave our marketing executive a quota We committed to content marketing The problem that a lot of companies still have is that marketing thinks its purpose is branding and awareness, measured through increased traffic to the website.

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Sales Engine

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Let's talk about how we can help your Sales team hit their goals. The clock is ticking on 2017 for the Marketing department but it's not to late. Sales Engine develops and executes marketing programs that generate more leads, faster, and less expensive than you can do in-house. Permalink.

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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. One of those necessary tools is marketing automation software. Define your sales funnel.

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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. One of those necessary tools is marketing automation software. Define your sales funnel.

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Sales Engine

OCTOBER 27, 2015

So whether that’s a Business Development rep making a phone call and leaving a voicemail, or an automated email sent to them containing a link to another piece of content—it must help them along and provide value. That’s nurturing. That’s adding value.

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Sales Engine

MAY 11, 2016

All of your web traffic increases are great, but if we can’t lead the qualified prospects to some sort of conversion asset to help lead them through their own buyer’s journey, it’s just branding and awareness—and that’s not enough for feeding today’s outside sales person with qualified leads. B2B lead generation is all about conversions.

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Sales Engine

APRIL 21, 2016

If I have a particularly tough subject matter, instead of taking it to the Internet, I’d rather have a conversation with them and have them explain it so I can write a more thoughtful and helpful article.”

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Sales Engine

MARCH 28, 2016

Our data analysis has really helped us understand what our categories should be. This is one of the ways that the magma helps format for search engines and hardens essentially on the surface. When we started this process, we had identified over 100 categories. Currently we’re down to 10. We are now very focused.

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 25, 2016

AMEX has developed the media property called OpenForum which is a CEO Boot Camp designed to help women business owners. This site is a collection of articles, videos, and guides to help women entrepreneurs succeed in their business. Or should I say, it’s potential buyers.

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 2, 2017

The BDR can recommend nurturing content and help position the seller as a valuable resource so that when the lead does reach sales-readiness, the seller is the first company that comes to mind. The BDR acts as a middle reliever who can have meaningful business conversations with prospects until they are ready to meet with the enterprise rep.

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Sales Engine

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

I would answer that it is definitely worth it, even if it does nothing more than help you know your customer more intimately. With companies increasing their expenditures on content marketing this year, many are wondering if it’s even worth going down this road in the first place.

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Sales Engine

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

I would answer that it is definitely worth it, even if it does nothing more than help you know your customer more intimately. With companies increasing their expenditures on content marketing this year, many are wondering if it’s even worth going down this road in the first place.

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 7, 2016

We must do that by giving the prospect something of value: something that helps them with their job, something that’s entertaining, something that demonstrates you know what you're talking about. This takes time. Sorry, but it does. You have to build an engaged audience over time, person-by-person.

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Sales Engine

JUNE 20, 2016

The BDR can recommend nurturing content and help position the seller as a valuable resource so that when the lead does reach sales-readiness, the seller is the first company that comes to mind. Lessons Learned In the case of this client, nurtured leads converted nearly nine times better than cold leads.

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Sales Engine

JUNE 2, 2016

So if you’ve decided that content marketing is the way to go (and it may very well be), check out this white paper and associated calculator tool that will help you determine how much you actually need to spend to hit your growth goals.

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 18, 2016

And when taking a deep look at marketing results, we were a bit surprised that the data actually helped to diagnose asales problem. Specifically, are dollars best spent on sales or marketing? One of our recent clients faced a similar question. So was it a quality of leads issue or a sales/opportunity conversion issue?

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Sales Engine

DECEMBER 21, 2015

See yourself (or your marketing department, or the content arm of your marketing department) as a media company that will publish content to help your audience find you and stay engaged with you until they are ready to talk to sales. Start with a strategy and define your audience to determine how much content they need.

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Sales Engine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Not to say that keywords and backlinks aren’t important because they still play a big role in helping Google figure out what that page is about. They work hand in hand—but it’s not about trying to “trick” Google into telling them what that page is about. You actually have to develop content that your prospects want to consume.

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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.

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Sales Engine

OCTOBER 16, 2015

What additional information can you send to them that’s going to be helpful? And the result is that they’re going to think twice before ever reading anything from you again. The right approach, again, is to think like a publisher. How can you add value? Once you’ve developed that kind of relationship, you’ll get a meeting.

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Sales Engine

MARCH 3, 2016

Instead, he concluded that injecting some life into the photos would help set his company apart from the competition. I think it’s unique in the industry and the feedback that we’ve received is that it really helps to tell the story. Ultimately, Spangler notes that their products are not the homes that they sell, but their people.

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Sales Engine

MARCH 3, 2016

Instead, he concluded that injecting some life into the photos would help set his company apart from the competition. I think it’s unique in the industry and the feedback that we’ve received is that it really helps to tell the story. Ultimately, Spangler notes that their products are not the homes that they sell, but their people.

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Paid Search Agency Content Marketing Storytelling Advertising Agencies 120

Sales Engine

OCTOBER 4, 2017

economy and an ever-expanding arsenal of technologies to help both salespeople and marketers reach more prospects, many companies continue to struggle to grow sales. Your prospects are hungry for content that’s educational, helpful and informative in tone. Despite a vibrant U.S. And what can you do about it? You need to be invited.T

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Sales Engine

MARCH 24, 2016

Use whatever works for you and helps you make money. During a long, complex buying process, marketers must help prospects take the next steps based on where they are in the buying cycle and what they need to know next. He writes, “The point is to keep doing complete marketing.

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Sales Engine

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Most B2B companies need help from an outsourced content development partner at different stages in the sales cycle, but many companies will fail to produce qualified leads for their sales teams, making it harder to justify increasing expenditures. Do you need help with a content strategy or do you have one clearly defined?

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Sales Engine

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Analytical tools are useful in helping to determine what your audience is responding to, but ultimately if you’re converting leads that turn into appointments for sales, your executives will be hungry for more. It’s just not going to help you at the top of the funnel. It’s that whole killing two birds with one stone thing.

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Sales Engine

JULY 20, 2016

economy and an ever-expanding arsenal of technologies to help both salespeople and marketers reach more prospects, many companies continue to struggle to grow sales. Your prospects are hungry for content that’s educational, helpful and informative in tone. Despite a vibrant U.S. And what can you do about it? You need to be invited.

Paid Search Agency 120

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Sales Engine

JULY 20, 2016

economy and an ever-expanding arsenal of technologies to help both salespeople and marketers reach more prospects, many companies continue to struggle to grow sales. Your prospects are hungry for content that’s educational, helpful and informative in tone. Despite a vibrant U.S. And what can you do about it? You need to be invited.

Paid Search Agency 120

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Sales Engine

APRIL 20, 2016

They need help getting in the door. The clicks help to identify those with need. They diagnose their own pain (for better or worse) and start searching for solutions by watching videos, downloading white papers, attending webinars, and using social media to check vendor references before ever talking to a rep. They need marketing.

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 28, 2016

Of course, marketers love to use other metrics, such as increase traffic and page views, because they look a lot better on paper—but if they aren’t converting into leads, they’re not helping to increase revenue. AMEX developed a media property called Open Forum , which is a CEO Boot Camp designed to help business owners.

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