Sales and Marketing
5 MailChimp Tools to End Your Marketing Worries
Why MailChimp? Gone are the days when your marketing team gained customers by making unsolicited cold calls. Today, every marketer is making optimal usage of the digital world to market & sell their products. Among…
Leveraging Google Maps Marketing for Your Local Business
Google Maps marketing is most commonly viewed from the perspective of the 3-pack listings shown near the top of the search results for localized keywords. For example, see the figure below for the Google search…
If You Can’t Write, You Can’t Sell
In the past few days, I’ve been embroiled in conversations about grammar and spelling. I read a discussion about “Should I hire a sales person with poor writing skills.” I was astounded by the majority…
How to Make Content Marketing Work for Your Small Business
Small business owners know they should be doing something to promote their business online, but what exactly that thing is sometimes seems vague and unclear. Or worse: arbitrary, a waste of time, lame. And it’s…
7 Costly B2B Social Media Marketing Fails
Social media is better at one-on-one—B2C—marketing, right? Wrong. According to marketing gurus Kipp Bodnar and Jeffrey L. Cohen’s The B2B Social Media Book, Becoming a Marketing Superstar, B2B companies “are a better fit” for B2B for a variety of reasons….
Retargeting: Who Do You Have in Your Sights?
I remember the first time I noticed retargeting. I’d been online, checking the park hours before my next trip to Disney World. From that website, I did some work and then went to a CBS…
Why You Should Care About Social Listening
What the heck is “social listening?” Another marketing buzzword? Well yes, it is! Ya gotta love marketing for all its new fangled terms and phrases that creep into our vocabulary. I was a Tweetchat guest…
Are Your Sales Suffering Due to These Common Faults?
If I make a mistake even a big one, as I’m typing this article, I can simply select the text, delete it and then correct it. You don’t always have that ability in sales….
How to Scale Native Advertising for Content Distribution
Many marketers exploring native advertising for the first time are going directly to networks like Taboola, Adblade, Outbrain and Revcontent, and/or they’re going directly to publishers for sponsored content. This is what Peyman Nilforoush, CEO and…
What About My Goals? A Time for Selfishness
I had a call from a frustrated sales person. He said, “Dave, I read your stuff all the time. You are relentless in focusing on the customer, their problems, and their goals. I get it,…
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