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How to Give Your Sales Team Better Leads

"These are the new leads. You don't get them. Leads are for closers." In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, the leads are gold. They are qualified leads. The job of the sales team is to close the leads....

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Posted on January 27, 2017 in Sales

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4 Marketing Activities to Outsource and Why

Marketing Teams Work Many Roles Strategic Thinker. Communicator. Writer. Website manager. SEO expert. Designer....

Posted on January 06, 2017 in Inbound Marketing

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Your Sales Team Needs a Marketing Budget

Your sales team used to thrive on driving the sales process. Your salesperson had the intel that prospects needed. Sales called, prospects listened, and your revenue increased with each closed deal. Today, B2B sales teams in every industry have hit a...

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Posted on December 23, 2016 in Sales

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How a Marketing Agency Can Improve Your Marketing ROI

Marketing’s role in business is becoming increasingly important because the sales process has changed. But for many businesses, it’s hard to see the ROI that the in-house marketing team produces. Why isn’t the in-house marketing team generating the ...

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Posted on December 16, 2016

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Make Bold Blog Content With These 5 Smart Tips

Many people struggle to get into the right mindset to write a business blog. Yet, they realize that producing content regularly will help to build their business. Changing your mindset to write a business blog like you were writing an informal essay ...

Posted on December 14, 2016 in Blogging

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Caller ID Has Changed Sales: You Can’t Close a Lead You Can’t Reach

You Can't Close a Lead You Can't Reach Sales used to focus on “Dialing for Dollars.” This mantra meant sales was just a numbers game. The more people you talked to, the more you closed. Productivity was measured by the number of calls and conversion ...

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Posted on December 05, 2016 in Sales

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CM 101: Offers: The Next Step in Content Marketing

What Gated Content Is and Why You Need It Without offers, you are not content marketing; you’re just producing content. Great content will get your brand out there. Great offers will bring in leads and eventually, sales. In this post we will discuss:...

Posted on December 01, 2016 in Content Marketing, Inbound Marketing

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CM 101: Video: The New King of Content

They say that content is king, well video is the king of them all What is the quickest way to establish trust and communicate with a visitor to your website? The answer is everywhere but seemingly absent on so many websites. Nothing is more brilliant...

Posted on November 29, 2016 in Content Marketing, Inbound Marketing, Landing Pages

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CM 101: Infographics: How to Stand out in a Sea of Words

Two million blog posts are written EVERY DAY! What if there were a way to make your content stand out and cut through the noise? Here’s a hint: your brain thinks in images, not letters and words. When communicating with an audience, take advantage of...

Posted on November 22, 2016 in Content Marketing, Inbound Marketing

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CM 101: Why Email Newsletters Win

Your inbox is packed. You lose important emails and they just never stop coming! Email sucks. Some marketers ignore email as a platform because they think prospects are inundated. They go to social media channels like Twitter and LinkedIn instead to ...

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Posted on November 16, 2016 in Content Marketing, Inbound Marketing, Email Marketing

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