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Lead generation and nurturing best practices for SMBs

Act!

A lead is someone who demonstrates interest in your product by requesting details, sharing their contact information , engaging with your advertisements, or downloading a free marketing resource like an e-book or training. They have a need and are interested in exploring different service providers to solve their problems.

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Don’t Miss This Event: The Gatekeeper Died

No More Cold Calling

Emails, articles, news flashes, blasts, webinars, podcasts…they make my blood boil. Gatekeepers—receptionists, administrative assistants, and executive admins—are valuable to the executives whose time and energy they protect, but not to you, at least not until you’ve developed a relationship with them. Of course you would.

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A Comprehensive Comparison Between B2B and B2SMB Business Models

BuzzBoard

Additionally, B2B transactions can involve the exchange of services, such as a marketing agency providing advertising services to a software company. But B2SMB sales cycles pulsate with a unique energy, defined by agility and immediacy. One of the key advantages of B2B transactions is the potential for long-term partnerships.

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Marketers Just Want To Market: Here’s How

Sales and Marketing Management

As Loreal Chief Marketing Officer Hugh Pile put it recently during a panel session of the British advertising group ISBA, “There’s a lot of discussion of left-brain logical skills, about science and analytics, and we need that stuff because of the marketing technologies that are available to use in programmatic and analytics.

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Cold Calling in a Digitally Enabled Environment

Vendor Neutral

Join our upcoming webinar to learn how cold calling has evolved through the years and what you can do today for success. Delivering insights based on 30+ years of sales leadership experience, Mark Hunter's style–live and online–is perhaps one of the most memorable elements of his performances, being both high-energy and blunt.

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How to use the marketing flywheel method to supercharge your business

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A flywheel is a mechanical device that’s designed to store rotational energy in an efficient way. Every ounce of organizational energy is spent turning leads into buyers, but little effort goes towards delighting customers into repeat purchases and becoming company advocates. What Is a Marketing Flywheel? Shift Your Resources.

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Market segmentation: the complete guide

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This 1970s Virginia Slims advertisement is marketing cigarettes towards women. Thankfully we’ve come a long way (baby) from terrible advertising. Multi-segment marketing (or differentiated marketing), is when a company’s marketing strategies are designed to advertise one product to more than one market segment.

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