July, 2010

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Why is Selling So Damn Hard?

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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Worthy Cause: Local Man is Fundraising for New Spandex Outfit

Closing Bigger

'Just kidding… but he does need skates. Ever thought of dropping everything to chase a dream? We all would… as long as it fit in to our busy schedules. BUT who has the time or the energy? I was chatting with Steve Jagger , my co-author for Sociable! , and he shared the new adventure his younger brother Kevin has undertaken. I had spoken with Kevin just a few months ago, at the time he was working for a US college media firm after putting in his dues on Bay Street as an investment ban

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Ben & Jerry's Drops Email Marketing In Favor of Social Media

Hubspot

Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream of Vermont announced in an email to their subscribers last week that they will be discontinuing their regular email marketing campaigns, in favor of social media. This was a major surprise - Usually, I think of social media and email marketing as having a close relationship and that they are most effective when used together.

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Growing Revenues for Businesses, Raising Funds for Nonprofits.

Score More Sales

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Blog. About. Consulting. Training. Press. Speaking. Growing Revenues for Businesses, Raising Funds for Nonprofits. by Lori Richardson on July 29, 2010. Do you have a Mighty Cause you champion outside of your career? Perhaps your Mighty Cause is integrated into your work? For me, helping entrepreneurs and small business owners grow their revenues, and helping nonprofits grow funds IS my professional career and main cause.

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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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Please Don't Hang Up! Three Techniques to Connect with Prospects

Sales Gravy

If you want to successfully connect with your prospect, and earn the precious few seconds it takes to establish rapport and generate some interest, then you must put yourself into the mind of your prospect and enter the conversation that’s going on i

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99% of Businesses are Being Stiffed! And You’re Probably One of Them.

SBI

Being picked last in gym class; standing by the punch-bowl while everyone else is dancing; or sitting alone at lunch-time in the school cafeteria; unfortunately, that’s what happens when the popular kids think you’re unworthy of attention. Software vendors are treating small business owners like the unpopular kids. While hundreds – make that thousands – of vendors offer exciting products, they’re intended only for the worthiest among us.

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Worthy Cause: Local Man is Fundraising for New Spandex Outfit

Closing Bigger

Just kidding… but he does need skates Ever thought of dropping everything to chase a dream? We all would… as long as it fit in to our busy schedules. BUT who has the time or the energy? I was chatting with Steve Jagger , my co-author for Sociable! , and he shared the new adventure his younger brother Kevin has undertaken. I had spoken with Kevin just a few months ago, at the time he was working for a US college media firm after putting in his dues on Bay Street as an investment banke

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Inbound Marketing vs. Outbound Marketing

Hubspot

Editor's Note : An updated version of this article has been published here: " Inbound Marketing and the Next Phase of Marketing on the Web ". When I talk with most marketers today about how they generate leads and fill the top of their sales funnel, most say trade shows, seminar series, email blasts to purchased lists, internal cold calling, outsourced telemarketing, and advertising.

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The Biggest Issue With Communication ? Score More Sales

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Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Blog. About. Consulting. Training. Press. Speaking. The Biggest Issue With Communication. by Lori Richardson on July 25, 2010. I’m in Austin today and heading to Dallas tomorrow to give talk at a leadership conference on communication and presentation. My big point, and theme for the talk is built around George Bernard Shaw’s quote, “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”.

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Three Body Language Tips to Improve Your Sales Effectiveness

Sales Gravy

As a commission-based sales rep, in many ways, you and the professor share a similar dilemma. The only big difference between you and the professor is that he's guaranteed a paycheck at the end of the month and you're not!

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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A Powerful Weapon for Hunters

SBI

If you’ve got a hunting territory, or you both hunt and farm for prospects, then you spend great effort searching for new sources of leads. And there’s no better place than the Web for coming upon a large herd of prospects gathered in one place. I’m talking about online directories. Whether it’s Hoover’s, JigSaw, the white or yellow pages, or association directories, there are hunting grounds where leads are abundant.

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3 Lessons for Effective Communication in Selling

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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Budget - #7 Sales Solution for Improved Sales Results

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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Sales Guru Part II

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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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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Sales Nuts - Finding Them in Your Sales Teams

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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Selling at 'C' Level

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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11 Mind-Blowing Mobile Marketing Infographics

Hubspot

Smart phones, tablets, laptops and mobile broadband cards have all changed the way we access the internet. According to Pew Research Center, 59% of adult Americans go online wirelessly. With the proliferation of wireless connectivity and devices, online marketers have many more screens to worry about than just the standard computer screen. To better illustrate the growing mobile marketing opportunity, take a look at these infographics. 1.

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Top 10 Questions Businesses Asked Us About Facebook Marketing

Hubspot

Despite the technical difficulties we experienced at our biggest webinar— The Science of Facebook Marketing —many of our attendees' questions didn’t revolve only around sound issues. We received a bunch of thoughtful inquiries about marketing on Facebook and wanted to share those with you! Here are our answers to the top 10 questions companies asked us about Facebook marketing: 1.What is the best way to drive interactions on your Facebook page?

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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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10 Steps to Effective Online Marketing For Small Businesses

Hubspot

The following is a guest post by Peter Rastello, the founder of Inbound Market Link , an Inbound Marketing agency specializing in helping small and medium, B2B and B2C businesses to succeed on the internet. If you are a marketing professional in charge of your small/medium sized business’ (SMB) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Inbound marketing, you are not alone.

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How to Create a New Facebook Tab in 3 Easy Steps

Hubspot

If you are serious about social media marketing, you have probably considered creating extra tabs on your Facebook page. You know about the business potential they carry—companies use separate Facebook tabs to create landing pages, interactive elements and special offers. But how do you go about doing it? We recently explored the tab creation path and found a fast and easy way of doing it.

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5 Email Marketing Mistakes to Avoid

Hubspot

Email marketing has been around for years. It is assumed that everyone on the web understands email because we have been receiving and sending messages for years. Even my extremely nontechnical mother uses email, although she refuses to use text messages. The thought of spending 10¢ to receive a text message from her son is just too much. I love you, Mom.

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Use Twitter to Rank #1 in Google in Less Than Five Minutes

Hubspot

Rank number one in Google in five minutes? Must be black hat , right? Wrong. Many marketers and small business owners still fail to understand the marketing impact Twitter can have on a business. Twitter isn’t only read by other Twitter junkies , it shows up in Google too. And, in some cases it can be used to outrank behemoth competitors. When using Google to search the web for information, one of the options that can be selected is to search the “Latest” results, rather than &

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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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Checklist: How to Start a Business Blog

Hubspot

Excellent content leaves the reader with something new that they didn’t have before. People like to get something from blogs they read. You don’t have to be Shakespeare to have a good blog. The fact is that web sites with a blog received 55% more visitors , 97% more inbound links and 434% more indexed pages than those that didn’t have a blog.

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Personal Brand: Good or Bad for Your Company?

Hubspot

There has been a good deal of discussion around whether having a strong personal brand is beneficial or detrimental to a company. Personal brand advocates claim that putting your name on your work and tweeting and blogging your own ideas and thoughts helps to enhance your own social standing, while also lending credibility and trust to your company.

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7 Reasons Social Media Is Bad for Marketing

Hubspot

While social media has contributed many great things to marketers, all of the good stuff doesn’t come without its own baggage. We have talked about the good side of social media for marketing a lot on this blog, but we have under-reported on the negative aspects that social media has brought to the marketing industry. Stepping back to think about it, these seven negatives are clearly consequences of the growth of social media as a marketing discipline. 7 Reasons Social Media Is Bad for Mar

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The Next Big Thing for Marketers: Social Magazines

Hubspot

The iPad has become the poster child for a new emerging device category: tablet computers. Much debate about this new device and category exists, but the numbers don’t lie. In the third quarter, Apple sold more than 3 Million iPads , meaning they sold almost as many iPads as Mac computers. The success of the iPad has also led to an accelerated amount of competition.

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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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What REALLY Matters in a Website Redesign

Hubspot

Do you run for the hills when it's time to bust out the wireframes and discuss redesigning your website? It's okay, not everyone was born to be a designer. Creating a new website can potentially be a long and arduous process - but it doesn't have to be! So many businesses get stuck on 'form OVER function' when trying to design or redesign a website.

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Survey: 0% of Internet Users Would Pay for Twitter

Hubspot

A recent study shows that Americans are not willing to pay for online services such as Twitter. The study was conducted by the University of Southern California at the Anneberg School for Communications and Journalism. From the research : "Although nearly half of those polled in a new USC survey said they have used free micro-blogging sites like Twitter, 0% said that they would be willing to pay for such a service.

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Facebook Explains How To Get More "Likes" and Clicks

Hubspot

Are you taking advantage of best practices when it comes to promoting news about your business on Facebook? Now you can check with Facebook's new Facebook + Media page , which launched Monday. The new page -- geared toward journalists but with implications for all businesses on Facebook -- includes best practices, tools to drive traffic and other insights for promoting news on Facebook.

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4 Social Media Methods for Generating Word of Mouth

Hubspot

Want to get people talking? Want to use social media to generate word of mouth? Here’s a secret: there are really only 4 ways to do it: Social Media Tool #1: Value. I don’t know about you, but I could go for a Grand Slam Breakfast from Denny’s. Mmm. Bacon and eggs. The truth is, I stayed far away from Denny’s – until they offered me a free meal.

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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