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Surviving Tough Times….

Partners in Excellence

Businesses, industries and markets are being restructured, profoundly. As I work to advise them, I stumbled on something I wrote in early 2001, another period of economic challenges. Since 2001 we’ve been through slowdowns a couple of times. Real value must be produced in order to motivate customers to buy.

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6 Ways To Make Sure Your Customers Get The Message

SBI Growth

Yet, as you walk down the hall – you have this feeling of hoping that customers will get your message. Pinpointing exactly how to communicate your brand message to a target audience can be one of the most perplexing challenges in marketing. Pre-Internet, marketing communications is where messaging mattered most.

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How to use the marketing flywheel method to supercharge your business

Nutshell

Sales and marketing professionals are constantly slinging around new buzzwords, complex terms, and confusing abbreviations. Well, here’s another important term for you to memorize: the marketing flywheel. Well, here’s another important term for you to memorize: the marketing flywheel. What Is a Marketing Flywheel?

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Not the “R” Word Again…

No More Cold Calling

What a roller coaster—this up and down economy—2001, 2002, then the Recession of 2008-09. The same “8 Killer Steps” that I talked about in 2001, 2002, and again in 2008 and 2009 still apply! Broaden Your Perspective/Narrow Your Focus: Is your sales and marketing focus working? How do we sell in this volatile economy?

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SMS sales: How B2B sellers can close more deals with text messages

Nutshell

Learn to leverage this underrated communication channel, and SMS sales just might become the secret weapon in your selling arsenal. That the best way to reach potential customers is via the supercomputer they carry around in their pockets. Why should you text your prospects and customers? What do these stats tell us?

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Choosing the Right Sales Metrics for Management

SalesLoft

Guest post by Karen Rhorer , Customer Success & Sales Strategy @ Atrium. Concur, one of the oldest SaaS companies , only moved from selling CD-ROMs and traditional on-premise software licenses to a SaaS model in 2001. That is, a large quantity of high-quality prospect- or customer-facing activity will generate results.

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Marketing Hierarchy of Needs: Achieving Marketing Efficiency and Effectiveness

The ROI Guy

For marketers, the news is good overall. According to research from IDC and Forrester, marketing spending is anticipated to increase between 3 to 5% for 2011. In the current environment, marketers are still being asked to do-more-with-less, driving a significant change in strategies, campaigns and go-to-market channels.