Sales and Marketing
Marketing Automation: Evil or Misunderstood?
When the subject of marketing automation comes up, many purists shake their head and talk about how robotic and impersonal it is. Well—if you do it badly, that’s very true.
Your Site Might Not Be Optimized for Humans: 7 User-Friendly Tips
Search engine optimization is a topic that comes up repeatedly for businesses of all sizes. For some small businesses, it can even be a make or break factor. Therefore, a topic of this importance deserves more attention than just blindly accepting the trends and buzzwords du jour.
3 Reasons Your Email Marketing is Failing
Email marketing has been a popular practice for many years and continues to be one of the most effective marketing techniques around. However, despite its unparalleled potential, many marketers often complain that their email marketing messages go unnoticed or unread.
Do Consumers Even Want Content Marketing from Brands?
Two contrasting content marketing studies have been published in the last few months: one by WP Engine/Taylor Nelson Sofres and the other by inPowered/Nielsen.
The Money’s in the Magazine: Why SMBs Need Print Marketing
While it may seem that this digital age has all but eradicated the necessity for in-hand marketing, print is not dead! There are several reasons why the smart business owner still invests in tangible print media. We’d like to share those reasons with you.
Do Google+ Social Annotations Improve My PPC Performance?
We all know that Google’s been pushing their social platform (if you can call it that), Google+, in recent years. Every marketing and branding agency will have their own opinion on the importance of having a presence on Google+, but I’m here to show you some stats on how it actually affects your AdWords performance.
Direct Sellers Don’t Sell “Stuff”!
Direct sales consultants do not sell stuff. You sell products, services, and value! As a direct seller, you should have more respect for your company and product than to call it STUFF!
5 Ways to Keep Your Content Marketing Strategy Healthy
When you stop and think about it, all great content marketing strategies are very similar to healthy lifestyles. A lot goes in to living healthy. You have to eat right, exercise often, get a lot of sleep, minimize stress, and make good life choices.
Coaching the Sales Process: Deal Reviews
Many sales managers really don’t know how to reinforce the sales process in their coaching and development of their sales teams. I’ve gotten a lot of questions on this topic from sales managers, and I suspect there are a lot more that are embarrassed to ask about this.