How Often Are Marketers Sending Email?
How often are you sending emails that your subscribers technically opted into, but don’t actually want? That’s a really hard question to answer and highlights a problem many email marketers might not realize they have called graymail. Graymail, as mentioned above, are...
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Medium Publications: How to Get in While You Can [and Dominate It]
This blog post is to be used as a reference and a checklist to best utilize a Medium profile for your small, medium, or large business' benefit. But first, what is Medium? Why should you use it? And, what's the best way to start out? Medium launched 6 years ago this...
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Power of Direct Mail in a Digital World [4 Key Reasons]
Do you ever wonder if direct mail is worth your time? With the digital world of email, traditional direct mail seems dead right? Wrong. Direct Mail is making one of the biggest comebacks as an effective sales tactic. 66% of respondents said they were likely to respond...
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The 3 Ways to Convert Leads [What's Best for You]
Out of the countless number of leads that are generated every single day, only 27% of those leads, according to research conducted by Forbes.com, ever get contacted. Unfortunately, your eyes aren’t deceiving you; over 70% of generated leads are not even CONTACTED, let...
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Easily Improve Your Weekly Sales Meetings [Only 5 Steps]
Sales meetings, a torturous occasion sales reps have to endure at least once a week. With the long discussions and routine checklists, sales reps pay little-to-no attention to the conversation at hand. Sure the meetings are necessary and it’s always a good feeling to...
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How to Create Job Posts That Convert [Guidelines]
Mastering the craft of writing job posts is a very important piece of the hiring process. Creating job posts that convert can be a mind-boggling task when it comes to attracting the right candidates. One of the keys to writing effective job descriptions is to hit a...
How Marketing and Sales Teamwork Can Improve Events
Sales events have a beginning, middle, and end, and your marketing team should be involved in each step. Taking advantage of your marketing team can help your sales team have more sales at these events. Make sure that you align your goals and it will make the event...
C-Level Appointment Setting & Selling: 5 Tips for Success
Selling to C-Level Executives is a whole new ball game. You have to be pithy, respectful of their time, and you have to come up with ways to differentiate yourself from the competition. Otherwise you'll have no hope in cutting through the clutter and earning the right...
Boost Your Sales Process Efficiency with 3 Easy Steps
Interested in expediting your sales process? Who isn’t? Especially since fast-moving sales approaches indicate accelerated time-to-revenue and overall efficiency in cash flow. However, invoking efficiency in your sales process is a decision that’s not at the top of...
The Triple Threat: Sales, Marketing, and Customer service
There are dozens of articles, webinars, blogs, and workshops out there designed to help you hone your sales skills. But what if that’s not all it takes? What if you combined your sales skills with marketing skills and customer service skills? Introducing, the super...
From AE's to SDR's, to LRR's?
In the past few years, we have seen B2B sales change notably. First, the speedy rise of Inside sales, to a migration from a refined sales model, specifically for products in the $5,000 to $100,000 ARR range. We then saw the transition split of Inside Sales into SDR’s...
5 Critical Mistakes in Execution with Inbound Leads
What is the result after a lead comes inbound? Step 1: completed. A lead converted on a piece of content. However, don’t get too excited yet; although they might be a solid prospect, this does NOT mean they are ready to move forward and buy right now. In fact, there’s...
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Generate Leads by Optimizing Your Landing Page [10 Best Practices]
“Just Google it.” Online research has become our protocol to find the best solution for both simple and challenging problems. In fact, 94 percent of B2B buyers perform online research prior to making a purchasing decision. Specifically, a landing page is the best way...
Inbound Sales Calls Are Still Important- Here's Why
It’s no surprise to the industry that building a rapport with consumers through conversation is vital to sales earnings. In fact, it’s estimated that $1 trillion in consumer spending in 2016 was influenced by customer calls. That’s right people, sales calls still...
How You Can Easily Build a High-Performing Data-Driven Sales Team
Analyzing data is the cherry on top of a perfect sales approach. A data driven approach is a process of sales that most sales representatives stray away from. Since there is so much data, it’s hard to distinguish what data is relevant. Finding the right sales metrics...
7 Regular Practices That All Highly Effective SDRs Have in Common
Being the most effective SDR is a goal that many people would like to achieve, but may not know how. A job as a Sales Development Representative is surprisingly complex, requiring both marketing and sales skills. After observation of the daily and weekly routines of...
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GDPR Could Cut Your Sales Pipeline in Half [Here's How to prevent That]
As GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) goes into effect on May 25th, 2018, your sales and marketing teams could potentially experience a drastic pipeline drought. Most likely your contacts marketing list will be significantly reduced. Below are some ways to...
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[Words That Sell] the Complete List of Killer Words You Must Use
Contrary to popular belief, it’s not always just about how you say it. What you say still matters, too. In fact, the most decisive difference between superstar sales reps and everyone else comes down to what they say during their sales conversations. For the longest...
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How to Nail Your Meeting Opening to Influence the Outcome [Script Inside]
While rapport building is an important part of your first meeting, it’s relied on almost too heavily. There are numerous techniques to improve rapport building. Most salespeople are comfortable with this part of the conversation which is why the focus of this article...
The 4 Most Important Cold Call Statistics for Sales Success in 2018
When it comes to cold calling, this right here is the worst advice: “You were born with two ears and one mouth—listen twice as much as you talk.” The “name of the game” in cold calling is different than other types of sales calls, such as sales discovery calls. Cold...
Sales Appointment Setting Tools That Will Boost Your SDR's Productivity
Scheduling sales appointments, whether it is for a discovery meeting or a product demo can be looked at as a simple technique. Improving this process within your organization may be the last thing on your mind. However, it is important to realize how scheduling...
5 Tips on How to Manage a Profitable Sales Pipeline
In this article, you can expect to read about 5 sales pipeline management tips and best practices and how you can fix your sales pipeline, but before we jump into it, what exactly is a sales pipeline? A sales pipeline is a systematic and visual representation of your...
5 Tools Everyone Should Be Using to Generate New Leads
For any sales organization, sales leads are a must. A lot of buzz centers around inbound lead generation through content marketing. But not all organizations have the budget, resources or want to create content marketing campaigns. And some organizations or sales...
10 Things Your Competitors…Part 3
Part 3 of 3 Here is the final installment, please be sure to share our blog with others! If you missed Part 1 or Part 2, catch up first and read on! 7) How to appeal to your target prospect by standing out. Standing out the “right” way is a good thing. For instance, a...
10 Things Your Competitors…Part 2
Part 2 of 3 Here’s another bite-sized nugget on the path to discovering what our competitors can teach us about target prospects. If you missed the first installment, find it here: Part 1 4) Mediums your competitors are NOT using to reach your target prospect....
10 Things Your Competitors Can Teach You About Your Target Prospect
Part 1 of 3 This blog post will be in a three-part series. We know your time is valuable so we decided to break it up into bite-size nuggets for you to digest. Enjoy-- and keep an eye out for parts two and three! Here are 10 Things Your Competitors Can Teach You About...
Creating Successful Inside Sales Campaigns
Joseph Perez - Director of Campaign Management (NY) Ever wonder what makes a company tick and how their employees create a client-centered focus that drives results? Then read on to learn more about the Inside Sales Solutions process and how Joseph Perez,...
The #1 Reason Why Prospects Go Dark and Don’t Buy
When I first started selling, I'd experience the following scenario with prospects all the time: I'd leave a meeting thinking I nailed it -- only for the prospect to go dark after my attempts to follow up. What the heck was I doing wrong? It turns out that in many...
How to Build Your Personal Brand on Linkedin (And Drive More Sales Conversations)
There’s a lot of buzz surrounding the LinkedIn Pulse articles; well is it buzz or noise? You tell me. I can promise you this – creating noise is NOT an effective way to build your personal brand on LinkedIn. Here’s a simple rule of thumb to follow: If your content...
This Is How You Skyrocket Sales Referrals – It’s Easier Than You Think
It’s no secret that word of mouth sales referrals are one of the most promising channels for earning new business. Most companies, especially early stage startups, depend heavily on a well oiled referral engine to build momentum. But this can be an effective lead gen...