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Engagement and Effectiveness Go Beyond Digital Marketing

Increase Sales

Today’s SMB world is one that abounds in digital marketing (paid advertisements). With the lines of digital marketing continue to be blurred with the content marketing through social media scattered among all the digital ads, it is becoming more and more difficult to separate the ads from the general content.

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Want Better Lead Generation? Get Marketing & Sales in Line

DiscoverOrg Sales

I’ve been involved in sales enablement and lead generation since the term was just getting popularized in the B2B tech sector around 2006. By understanding the discipline of sales enablement and how to prioritize tactics based on marketing and sales objectives, companies of all sizes can reap the rewards.

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CMO: Is Your 2014 Marketing Plan Obsolete?

SBI Growth

As CMO, you’re constantly trying to answer these 2 burning questions: Are customers responding to our marketing campaigns? What are we doing to adjust to the market demands? Perhaps in the past you laid out a multi-year marketing plan, or simply went year-to-year. The average tenure of CMO’s has doubled since 2006.

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How to Find a Sales Mentor

Score More Sales

I first met Jill Konrath after reading her new book, Selling to Big Companies in early 2006. Perhaps how I stumbled into finding great mentors in the B2B sales world might inspire you to find mentors and inspiration yourself. Lori, Trish, and Jill August, 2012. To be professional in any career, you need mentors.

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Sales Blogging - Do As I Say, Not as I Do

Understanding the Sales Force

If you were to read through each of the 1,150 articles I have posted on this blog since 2006, and organize, sort, create a flow and edit it all into a Sales Management Bible, we would have one enormous how-to guide. Although that was the original plan in 2006, it is no longer on my radar.

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Pick Up the Damn Phone and Have Sales Conversations

No More Cold Calling

It doesn’t crash, and we know how to use it. Do you know how to have that kind of sales conversations? This was the title of a blog post I wrote several years ago about how to attract sales prospects in a technology-focused world. But technology is not my passion, so this is not a how-to book about using technology to sell.

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HubSpot is too expensive: Saving money on software without losing features

Nutshell

How can it afford to do this? ” HubSpot has been around since 2006 and is a frontrunner in the marketing space. If you’ve ever Googled any sales or marketing tips, you’ve more than likely seen its content. Then we pay an additional $800/month for marketing hub and $400 for sales hub … We have 5 users.”.

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