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How Marketing Awards Are Like Coaching Certifications

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Ever listen to local marketing firms stand up and cheer when they receive some national award for their brochures, direct mail pieces or even website designs? These folks remind me of executive coaches, small business coaches and life coaches who shout out about their coaching certifications.

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Limit Your Marketing Resolutions; Unlimit Your Resolve

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The New Year has many small business owners to sales professionals listing all their New Year’s marketing resolutions or goals including: Blog postings from consistency to quality. Direct mail marketing. Invest 20 minutes per day prospecting through LinkedIn if you are engaged in B2B. Networking.

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The Big Lie About Social Selling

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Unfortunately a lot of small businesses are buying into this lie and spending their hard earn profits. One of the more concise ones is offered by Hubspot : “Salespeople use social media to interact directly with their prospects. Being ready to buy does not mean the prospect will buy. Direct mail.

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Do You Truly Have A Sales Problem?

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Many times sales coaches or business improvement consultants are hired because there is a sales problem. Marketing is not glossy brochures or “fancy, dancy” websites or thousands of direct mail pieces. Sales Training Coaching Tip: Knowing your numbers is critical to business and sales success.

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4 Secrets to the One-Call Meeting: Your Powerful Referral Program

No More Cold Calling

Some people say it takes seven to 12 touches for sales reps to reach their prospects? Because they have referral introductions from their prospects’ trusted colleagues, they always receive a call back. The referral source talks to the sales prospect and gets agreement to meet with the rep. Is your team tired of cold calling?

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170 Sales Terms From A – Z: The Updated Glossary of B2B Sales Definitions

Sales Hacker

Account Based Marketing (ABM) is a strategic framework that engages qualified individual prospects or customer accounts as unique markets in themselves, worthy of focused, hyper-personalized treatment by sales, marketing and other teams. . Direct Mail. Direct Sales. Deal Closing. Decision Maker. Demand Generation.

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[Message to Management]: 4 Reasons Your Sales Team Isn’t Getting Referrals

No More Cold Calling

Everyone (yes, everyone) tells me that with referrals, they arrive pre-sold, have trust and credibility already earned, shorten the sales process, and convert prospects into clients more than 50 percent of the time (usually more like 70 to 90 percent). Referral selling must be your #1 business-development outreach.

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