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How Marketing Fails by Failing to Market Itself

SBI Growth

One of the most difficult responsibilities for a B2B marketer is sales enablement. The sales field is often critical of any marketing effort. Marketers can feel like they are in a can’t-win position. Marketing teams begin to resent their peers in sales. Marketing teams begin to resent their peers in sales.

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Not the “R” Word Again…

No More Cold Calling

What a roller coaster—this up and down economy—2001, 2002, then the Recession of 2008-09. The same “8 Killer Steps” that I talked about in 2001, 2002, and again in 2008 and 2009 still apply! Broaden Your Perspective/Narrow Your Focus: Is your sales and marketing focus working? How do we sell in this volatile economy?

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6 Ways To Make Sure Your Customers Get The Message

SBI Growth

Pinpointing exactly how to communicate your brand message to a target audience can be one of the most perplexing challenges in marketing. Pre-Internet, marketing communications is where messaging mattered most. What we talked about was how new competitive entrants have entered their market space. Guessing at this is nonsense.

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Marketers: Should Salespeople ONLY focus on Closing Sales.

Score More Sales

Marketers: Should Salespeople ONLY Focus on Closing Sales? “Salespeople should just focus on closing sales, and let the marketers do the rest through automation.” Sponsored in part by Lenovo and Infusionsoft, TJ is working to gather input on what you think about marketing automation. Consulting.

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation. Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success.

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What Kind Of Sales Year will 2018 Be?

The Pipeline

Currently the longest is the 120 months, from March 1991 to March 2001. This could well mean that there is more than a real possibility that the next 12 – 18 months will see an economic slowdown, at the same time many market pundits also point to age of the current bull market, and real possibility of a pull back.

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The Importance of Branding in Today's B2B Customer Acquisition

SBI Growth

This quote says it all: “Marketing is a service- based organization. We do not create marketing for the sake of marketing.”. In a timeless article from AdAge.com, Marty outlines what he considers to be the goals of Marketing: Sell more stuff. Yet he’s a business person first. Marty Homlish, CMO. Make more money.

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