When it comes to lead generation, there are many studies and resulting statistics available online. There are even a number of different definitions of a lead. How about thinking of a lead as an identifiable person who has expressed interest in your product or service. Here, we use some of them to...
Too many B2B marketing teams fail to consider the bigger picture. The main mistake is focusing on just one relationship stage in the marketing-to-sales lifecycle. Successful inbound marketing assesses customer experience at each stage in the buyer journey. In defining your enterprise's...
Have a goal in mind. How are you going to filter out the relevant conversations from all of the online noise. In its social insight analysis, Mashwork focuses on a theory to either validate or discredit, the firm’s CEO, Jared Feldman, told TechRepublic. Related article: Using Social Media Data to...
As the summer Olympics approach, you could be forgiven for hearing the word agility and thinking about the pending contest for gymnastics gold. However, when a digital marketing agency talks about being agile we mean something even better than staying atop a balance beam. Being agile means to be...
There once was a time, ages ago, or at least decades ago, when Internet visitors wouldn’t question a website with a stodgy layout, some distracting link colors (too often fluorescent), and generic clip art. We all know those days are gone. Design is an essential part of building trust with inbound...
B2B sales are all about building relationships. You know that. Yet what are some best practices for building the B2B Sales Funnel? After all, you can’t build relationships if you don’t have the leads to be nurturing in the first place. 1. Connect marketing automation with customer relationship...
“Always be closing” is a familiar mantra for sales. If you haven’t seen Alec Baldwin’s blistering tirade about this in David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross movie, you should: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4PE2hSqVnk Yet while Baldwin remains one of today’s top actors, his close message is now old...
Marketers aim to nurture leads and convert prospects into buyers while increasing the lifetime value of each relationship. Ultimately, marketing is a process of providing ongoing education, inspiration, connection, encouragement, purpose, and resolve -- leading to “yes.” A foundational...
It may be difficult to say “SMarketing” without wanting to snicker, but there are many reasons integrating sales and marketing — known as SMarketing — is nothing to laugh about. "Companies with ‘dynamic, adaptable sales and marketing processes’ report an average of 10% more sales people on-quota...
Inbound marketing is no longer the new buzz phrase. Yet it’s still the new kid on the block (the dreamy one that listens to you) when compared with outbound marketing. Companies are 3X as likely to see higher ROI on inbound marketing campaigns than outbound. — HubSpot, State of Inbound 2015...