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Jeffrey Answers a Question on Cold Calling | Real World Sales Wisdom

Jeffrey Gitomer

Tweet RSS readers may click here for the video. Write an industry white paper. White paper, or brochure? What better way to gain respect, cosmic debt, word-of-mouth advertising, and reputation? Here are 12.5 real world connection strategies to eliminate cold calling. These are not “no brainers.”

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Your 2014 Marketing Budget Roadmap

SBI Growth

There are way too many budgets that include bloated dollars for things like trade shows, promotion, sponsorships and advertising. Let your buyer research, personas & BPMs drive your content output: Blog Posts, Ebooks, White Papers, Newsletters, Customer Interviews, Video, Webinars, Slideshare, Print Articles, Live Events.

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PowerViews with Andrew Gaffney: Tipping Points & Differentiators

Pointclear

Working with a wide variety of clients from tech firms to sports properties and lifestyle brands, Andrew has crafted successful campaigns built around white papers, event-based advertising and sales training materials for clients such as Major League Baseball, Canon, DuPont, SAP, Business Objects, Oracle and many others.

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7 Key Elements of a High-Converting Sales Funnel

Sales Hacker

For example, you could send them free eBooks or white papers, connect with them on social media, or make them a special offer. Unlike pay-per-click advertising (PPC), SEO is an ongoing process that takes time to deliver results. With PPC, your traffic will drop as soon as you stop advertising.

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9 Strategies to Convert Your Blog Traffic Into Leads

SugarCRM

Someone filling out a form to download your latest eBook or white paper is undoubtedly considered a quality lead. Remarketing is advertising to an already existing audience. As it is with advertising, one thing you have to keep a close eye on is your customer acquisition costs—you want to make sure you have a positive ROI.

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Build It, They Will Come?

The ROI Guy

The good news is that you are already off to a great start, engaging your frugal buyers with the interactive white papers and financial calculators they need to help justify “Why Change?, “Why Including sample report links, videos about the tool and tagged images on the landing pages can help optimize search engine rankings.

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PowerViews with Ann Handley: First, Get Your Strategy, Messaging & Story Right

Pointclear

Below, you can read highlights from our discussion or use the links to start the video from different parts of the conversation. Click to start video at this point — In response to a question about outbound marketing vs. inbound marketing, Ann talks about the right mix being a blend of both. It’s a clear outbound tactic.

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