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The Importance of Branding in Today's B2B Customer Acquisition

SBI Growth

Let me give you an example to illustrate the point; One of the brightest CMO’s I’ve ever had the pleasure of serving as an agency partner is Greg Reid, former CMO of YRC Worldwide. Greg built a powerhouse brand by transforming ‘Yellow Freight’ to ‘Yellow Transportation’, a highly preferred brand. An unknown brand is untrusted.

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Neuroscience Confirms We Buy on Emotion & Justify with Logic & yet We Sell to Mr. Rational & Ignore Mr. Intuitive

Insight Demand

The Iowa Gambling Task study, [v] for example, best highlights how effective the emotional brain is at effortlessly figuring out the probability of success for maximum gain. These positive/negative emotions are then transported to your conscious mind well in advance of a conscious decision. Car 2 handled poorly etc.

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How Marketing Fails by Failing to Market Itself

SBI Growth

True Story – How I learned to execute Sales Enablement on a field ride in 2001. In 2001 I was an Account Supervisor at VML, a marketing agency. My client was the Less-than-Truckload (LTL) trucking firm Yellow Transportation. For example; Sales Enablement: The Missing Piece to the New Product Launch. Meet Rex the Rep.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: The IT Hierarchy of Needs: Categorizing.

The ROI Guy

For example, a third world economy focuses on the physiological and safety needs first – basic human survival. For first world countries, the lower needs are viewed as commonplace commodities, while the focus moves towards meeting higher end needs of home, transportation, careers, vacations, hobbies and spiritual fulfillment.

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