April, 2010

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Happy Sales People Are Better Performing Sales People?

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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Facebook, Twitter, Blogging, SEO – Which one is right for you?

Closing Bigger

'The question is formed in many different ways. I get it all the time. What is the best social media or social network for me to use? Which ones will my clients respond best to? Should I use social media or invest in search engine optimization? These are the wrong questions. Lets use a guerrilla analogy: What’s the best weapon for combat? The answer is: You need more than one weapon, you need multiple weapons, multiple approaches and a lot of redundancy and back-up.

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11 Killer Social Media Presentations Worth Watching

Hubspot

Presentations are a great way to consume information and learn about new topics. Unfortunately, we all don't have the time and money to spend traveling to conferences to see them in-person. Fortunately, the web has helped solve this problem by making it easier to share and watch presentations. Slideshare has become a powerful resource for discovering new ideas.

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What Successful Women Entrepreneurs (Oprah Included) Can.

Score More Sales

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Blog. About. Consulting. Training. Press. Speaking. What Successful Women Entrepreneurs (Oprah Included) Can Teach Us. by Lori Richardson on April 30, 2010. I’ll be in NYC most of next week, learning from and interviewing women who have created multi-million dollar businesses at the Rock the World Conference.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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"Social Engineering" Your Prospecting Calls

Sales Gravy

Kevin Mitnick was one of the most notorious computer hackers in the world; and at the time of his arrest in 1995, the most wanted computer criminal in US history.

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A Marketer's Guide to Facebook's New Social Plugins

Hubspot

Yesterday Facebook released a like button for the internet. At their annual f8 Developer Conference, Facebook announced platform updates that work to integrate their platform with sites across the web. The event started with some fresh statistics about Facebook usage: More than 400 million people using Facebook 100 million mobile Users 100 million Facebook Connect users 25 billion items shared each month on Facebook Despite the enormity of these numbers, Facebook's announcements were all centere

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5 Tips for Branding Your Business on Twitter

Hubspot

Twitter can drive leads and sales. However, because of the simplicity of the Twitter platform , some businesses overlook simple ways to improve their business' branding on Twitter. Taking the time to optimize your brand on Twitter is important to help capture the ultra-short attention span of users scrolling through their Twitter feeds. One way to enhance your company's branding on social platforms like Twitter is by empowering all employees to be part of your company's brand online.

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Your PowerPoint Sucks

Hubspot

It seems like everyone hates PowerPoint these days. From the US army to the president's own infographics guru Edward Tufte , the message seems clear: "Powerpoint sucks." And we've all been stuck in a dark conference room, sometime after lunch, drilled into a coma by a monotone speaker dryly reading his own slides at us. It's easy to hate Powerpoint.

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6 Steps For Successful Content Marketing

Hubspot

The Following is a guest post by John McTigue, the co-owner of Kuno Creative , a Certified HubSpot Partner agency based in Avon, OH. You can read more from him on his blog or follow John on Twitter. Unless you are consistently feeding your inbound marketing machine with good, creative content, chances are you've seen a slow-down in traffic, search engine results and leads.

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LinkedIn Adds the Ability to Follow Companies

Hubspot

With over 65 million professionals using their network, LinkedIn doesn't often get the buzz that Twitter and Facebook commands. However, a new tool introduced today gives LinkedIn members the ability to follow companies. Similar to a Facebook Fan Page, being a company follower on LinkedIn will get you specific status updates such as recent hires and promotions, new job opportunities and company profile updates.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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What Can Social Media Do for Your Business? Simple: Leads.

Hubspot

So you've been listening to your techie nephew talk about Twitter and Facebook. You understand the appeal from the social and networking perspectives -- but you're still stuck on one question: What, exactly, can social media do for your business? If you look at our experience here at HubSpot, one answer is clear: leads. The graph above represents leads generated on HubSpot.com from visitors who were originally referred to HubSpot via a social media platform like Twitter or Facebook between April

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The Simple Math of Blog Comments

Hubspot

You know that commenting on blogs is a great way to extend your presence online, meet other bloggers, business owners, and potential customers, and ultimately drive more traffic to your own blog and website. But what makes a good blog comment? How do you go about "joining the conversation," as multitudes of well-meaning people are constantly haranguing you to do?

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A Business Owner's Guide To Google's New Street View

Hubspot

Looking for a pastry shop in Boston? Or how about a late-night sushi cafe in Cambridge? Just whip out Google Maps and it will return a list of related locations with directions, photos, and even reviews of the destination. With location-based sites like Yelp, Foursquare, Twitter, and others on the rise, Google decided to enter the " location war " with Google Places , a tool that enables business owners to build a directory page in Google Maps.

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3 Ideas for Creating Quality Link Bait Content

Hubspot

Lots of content savvy marketers will talk endlessly about that the best ways to build links. Many will tell you that the best way to do this is to create excellent, compelling, unique content on a regular basis, optimize and promote it. This method does have one inherent and obvious problem associated with it. Great content still relies on external forces, in the form of 3rd party webmasters, to pick up on your content and link to it.

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Don't Let AI Pass You By: The New Era of Personalized Sales Coaching & Development

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales & Devyn Blume, Sr. Account Executive

Are you curious about how artificial intelligence is reshaping sales coaching, learning, and development? Join Brendan Sweeney and Devyn Blume of Allego for an engaging new webinar exploring AI's transformative role in sales coaching and performance improvement! Brendan and Devyn will share actionable insights and strategies for integrating AI into coaching and development - ensuring personalized, effective, and scalable training!

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New Research: 5 Twitter Charts For Marketers

Hubspot

Facebook is dominating Twitter in usage in the United States, but the two social platforms are nearly equal when it comes to awareness. This is just one of many interesting data nuggets that were uncovered in a new survey conducted by Edison Research. The report is the most recent data from a three year tracking study conducted by Edison and Arbitron Internet and Multimedia research.

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SEO is Evolving Fast: Basics Are No Longer Enough

Hubspot

HubSpot has been reaching out to online marketing experts to get their perspectives on the evolution of SEO and what it means for SMBs. One thing is clear, the pace of innovation is increasing and basic SEO building blocks are no longer enough to drive traffic and leads to your website. Jen Doyle of MarketingSherpa and Nick Stamoulis, President of Brick Marketing and a blogger with the SEO Journal , shared their thoughts on the five key SEO questions we've asked several other thought leaders.

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8 Enhancements to LinkedIn's Sharing Feature Make Your Content Even Sexier

Hubspot

Research shows that internet users are increasingly turning not only to Google and search engines, but also to social media sites for news and information. And you've heard us say before that it's beneficial to let go of your content by publishing it in multiple places. After all, the more places you share content, the more eyes will see it. That's why we're excited about LinkedIn's new news-sharing features, announced yesterday.

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Calculating How Much Website Traffic You Need to Hit Your Monthly Revenue Goals

Hubspot

A little while ago, I published a free worksheet which helps marketers devise an inbound marketing strategy to support their revenue generation goals. A bunch of prospects, customers and partners have started using it. But, it's too complex for most to grasp. And involves a lot of work to complete. Our new marketing analytics tools makes it easier to get the data needed to run the model, but for non-customers who are new to the whole idea of actually predicting and measuring an ROI from inbound

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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The Facebook Investigators - "Foursquare Cops" [Episode 3]

Hubspot

In this episode of Foursquare Cops , rival social media crime fighters The Facebook Investigators (FBI for short) and the Foursquare boys duel out who has the right to solve this next case. To catch the final episode, tune in next Tuesday at 12:00pm EDT here on our blog, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. Episode #3: "The FBI". Producer and Director: @ WoodyTondorf Starring: @ KylePaice , @ natehinchey Guest Starring: @ WoodyTondorf , @ repcor.

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SEO is Evolving Fast: Will Your Content Be Found?

Hubspot

Wondering how the rampant innovations in search and social media are impacting SEO best practices? HubSpot recently got input from Aaron Khalow of Online Marketing Summit on the evolution of SEO and what it means for SMBs. To continue the conversation, we asked two more internet marketing luminaries to weigh in on the topic. Sage Lewis of SageRock , a digital marketing agency, and Nathan Thompson of Marketing Experiments both agreed that as search gets more relevant through social media and real

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Improving Sales and Marketing Alignment: The Marketing and Sales SLA

Hubspot

As companies continue to increase the percentage of leads that originate from inbound marketing, effective alignment of sales and marketing becomes a critical area of organizational design. If the two departments are managed as separate silos, the system fails. For companies to achieve growth and become leaders in their industries, it is critical that these two group be properly integrated The Problem Marketing is measured against aggressive lead quantity goals.

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Over 50 Marketing Charts and Graphs from Original Research

Hubspot

It's no secret at HubSpot that we love marketing data , and believe that data helps all of us make better decisions for marketing and for our business. We publish tons of marketing reports , many of which are based on original research that we do. Highlights from the Marketing Charts: Inbound marketing focused companies generate leads at a 60% lower cost than companies who focus on outbound marketing Out of companies who blog, 46% have attracted revenue through their blog Out of companies who bl

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.

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Top 5 Inbound Marketing Articles to Start the Week: Social Media Jerks

Hubspot

When referring to examples like the Pampers diaper fail or the classic Kryptonite Lock crisis , we're all trying to steer clear of the same thing: bad use of social media. To jump-start your Monday, let's take a look at the top inbound marketing articles of the past week, the first of which discusses some ways you and your company can act like a social media fool.

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Marketing Analytics: How Do You Decide What to Measure?

Hubspot

We all know that the "it" buzzword is ROI. Here at HubSpot we have a saying we live by: “ In God we trust ; all others must bring data.” -- W. Edwards Deming , physicist and quality improvement pioneer. So you know that you need to measure your marketing efforts. The problem many marketers have is figuring out what to measure. Here are a few tips to help decide: Where's the money going?

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New Chart: Survey Says Inbound Marketing Budgets on the Rise

Hubspot

Businesses are putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to inbound marketing. According HubSpot's The State of Inbound Marketing 2010 report, the majority of the 231 businesses surveyed said they planned to increase their 2010 inbound marketing budgets from 2009 levels. In fact, 88% of those surveyed are either maintaining or increasing their inbound marketing budgets.

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Oh No! My Website Grader Score Went Down!

Hubspot

During Tuesday's website optimization webinar , Mike Volpe and I reviewed four different types of websites that had Website Grader scores ranging from 84 to 18 (three of which went down recently and only a little bit). Should the owners of those websites be concerned about lower Grader scores? Mike Volpe, HubSpot's VP of Marketing, said, "People should look at their website's score not as an absolute number but as a relative score to be used as a benchmark and referenced in much the same way as

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Poll Results: How Aligned Are Your Sales & Marketing Organizations?

Hubspot

In January this year, Mark Gibson from Advanced Marketing Concepts and I ran a joint webinar entitled " How Marketing Agencies Can Help Clients Align their Sales & Marketing Messaging, Processes and Goals ". More than 200 attendees answered a series of questions about critical sales and marketing alignment issues. If you work as an inhouse marketer, are a small businesss owner or work at an agency, and you're trying to improve your sales and marketing performance, these poll results should h

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Follow Friday is now People Friday

Closing Bigger

'Enough. With the advent of Twitter there’s the follow Friday or #followfriday or #ff. People post lists of people they endorse or want to thank for their impact on them via Twitter. It may be the trend du jour but I feel for us hyper wired social media and web geeks People Friday is a much greater cause. We spend so much time behind our monitors or squinting at our iPhones and Blackberry’s that we have forgotten the purpose; PEOPLE.

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Facebook, Twitter, Blogging, SEO – Which one is right for you?

Closing Bigger

The question is formed in many different ways. I get it all the time. What is the best social media or social network for me to use? Which ones will my clients respond best to? Should I use social media or invest in search engine optimization? These are the wrong questions. Lets use a guerrilla analogy: What’s the best weapon for combat? The answer is: You need more than one weapon, you need multiple weapons, multiple approaches and a lot of redundancy and back-up.

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Facebook, Twitter, Blogging, SEO – Which one is right for you?

Closing Bigger

The question is formed in many different ways. I get it all the time. What is the best social media or social network for me to use? Which ones will my clients respond best to? Should I use social media or invest in search engine optimization? These are the wrong questions. Lets use a guerrilla analogy: What’s the best weapon for combat? The answer is: You need more than one weapon, you need multiple weapons, multiple approaches and a lot of redundancy and back-up.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten