Selling is easy. We all know it. It’s PROSPECTING that’s difficult. In fact, the number one reason sales professionals FAIL in a wide range of industries is not that they don’t know how to sell…it is because they do not know how to prospect. Or, if they do know how…
We all have attended plays, concerts and movies—whether it was a sell-out show on Broadway or your third grader’s stage debut in the school musical. Regardless of the setting, in your child’s school or on Broadway, the same principle applies: the performers follow a script, and that script is rehearsed…
I’m a firm proponent of target marketing. For a small technology or software consulting company, there’s no better way to attract and retain new customers. That being said, I know there are a lot of companies that resist targeted marketing. They think with all of those people out there that…
The more people I talk to, the more it seems lead generation is changing. More partners are moving away from sharing leads. Competition is growing stronger. Qualified leads are harder and harder to find. How are your lead generation methods working? We want to know what’s happening with you. Take…
Market Leadership Journal is conducting a lead generation survey to uncover what’s changing in lead generation. Changing times call for changes in how you find your best clients and how they find you. Our survey will uncover how many SMB businesses are finding new clients. This survey will cover the…
Most businesses are feeling a change in lead generation. Many factors are impacting lead generation: • A flat economy • Social media • Spam regulations • Limited resources • Increasing postage Some say lead generation has changed. Others are saying lead generation is dead. What’s happening with your lead generation…
You know, people with great connections don’t have them by accident. Indeed, when you come across another person who has lots of connections in different places, that asset of “human capital” was built at a price. Someone had to work to build that asset. This perspective was shared with me…
I’ve worked on a lot of surveys with my clients. We used surveys to determine what customers were thinking of buying, features they wanted, and how much they were willing to spend for the final product. Those surveys prevented a lot of marketing errors in our final result. Many of…
I’m always reading books, websites, articles, looking for the issues and challenges you, the reader, are facing. From everything I’ve seen, lead generation is a big topic of interest. In just a cursory search on Google using the keywords lead generation, I found the following searches took place in the…
There’s so much noise around the Internet and social media today. The challenge for many technology businesses is what to do first and what to do to support your internet marketing efforts. This blog post starts at the beginning of your marketing efforts and focuses on how to use the…