Sales and Marketing

The Rope of Leadership and Influence

A powerful influencer does not pull hard; they pull gently. f a person wanted to utilize the message in order to manipulate, they could. But, it’s not good business and it’s not good life.

Newsjacking for Content

Creating new, engaging content is often an uphill battle for marketers. One way to continuously produce fresh content that your readers will find interesting is “newsjacking.”

What Call Volume Says About Your Sales Team

Call volume, or the number of dials made, is a top line measure of how your outbound prospecting team is doing. It is an indicator of each rep’s effort, not the caliber of their calls. But dials that lead to deals can only happen if your reps invest a lot of time into dialing.

3 Small Businesses Doing Big Things with Social Media

I really want to dive into what trends I see in marketing and how to continue to properly tell your story in a noisy, social and quickly changing world. In this first post, I analyzed a few small businesses and the content they are posting on social networks.

Color ROI: Color for Kids and Color Preferences

The people at BestPsychologyDegrees.com have put together a great infographic about color and marketing, looking at all different aspects of how to use color in marketing.

Customer Experience is Single Most Exciting Opportunity for 2014

According to a newly-released report from eConsultancy and Adobe, customer experience (CX) is the single most exciting digital experience for 2014.

Feed the Goog

Google has made two statements in the past; one a few years ago and the other quite recently, that I think pretty much tell us all where The Great and Powerful Goog wants to take the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs).

Content Shock: Why Earned Media Will Save Content Marketing

Large and small brands alike that create problem-solving content and build real relationships with the popular websites in their respective industries will more than just survive content shock; they’ll flourish.

Media Coverage Is Not a Given

I have the opportunity to review many business plans and one thing that always causes me some concern is that every business owner believes that they can generate a significant amount of marketing exposure by getting media coverage.

Tips to a Successful Outreach Strategy

It’s true that your best customers are regular buyers. However, customers have a shelf life, too. There’s only so much new revenue you can generate from old customers, so outreach has to be part of any marketing strategy.

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