Organisations often have separate organic Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and Pay Per Click (PPC) strategies run by different teams or agencies, but the holistic term Search Engine Marketing (SEM) exists for a reason. With good content and careful management paid and organic tactics can individually achieve great results. But the two working together can be a game changer, delivering more than the sum of its parts. Here’s why.

Looking for ways to maximize your sales team’s productivity? You’ve come to the right place. Today’s tips is about how to turn news into sales. Did you know that a baby’s birth is a sales trigger for car dealers? Think about it. When a couple starts having kids, they often need to say goodbye to their sporty, two-door car and replace it with a more practical four-door with room for the baby seat and all the paraphernalia. Before long, as more babies arrive, a minivan or SUV starts looking pretty good. To a car salesperson, news about expectant parents and new births is prime hunting ground.

Along with closing deals and gaining revenue, successful Smarketing efforts have also been found to lead to more accurate targeting, increases in sales productivity, improved customer experience, and built up morale and job satisfaction among client facing teams. If that sounds like a win to you, let’s get down to business on how you can develop a sales and marketing alignment plan in your organization.

When you’re trying to win business from executives, especially in the C-suite, it’s important to know how to engage with them in a meaningful way that adds value to their day. Otherwise, you risk being seen as a nuisance that has taken their time without truly solving any of their problems.

Foundcoo is a provider of management consulting services to business owners; we assist you in your efforts to drive sales growth. A team of experienced business professionals, we identify opportunities in key areas of your operations and solidify your brand’s focus areas. From business planning to digital transformation strategies, you can trust Foundcoo in your business development. We’re truly excited about this award as it shows our determination to guide our partners towards growth efficiency. More importantly, we’d like to express our gratitude to our clients for their continuous trust in our services.

B2B content marketing is a long-term play and should be integrated with a full-on digital marketing strategy. When done well, it is reliably a very effective approach. Whether you’re learning how to start a B2B content marketing strategy, or brushing up on the basics, or looking to achieve mastery. Through our techniques on how to Master Content Writing, you’ll find everything you need ahead.

While mobile advertising has historically been impactful, we must be conscious of its unique challenges: consumers turning to shopping on smaller screens means less real estate for advertising. Moreover, the propensity for scrolling on mobile devices means that attention spans are shorter than ever amongst a sea of similar advertisements.

Jim collins in his book, Good to Great, set out to discover what made some companies go from being good to great. He embarked on a five-year study of eleven companies whose stock returns had skyrocketed relative to their competitors. There were several important factors, but one of the most important was the type of leader who led the company into greatness.

Growth Hacking is all about finding scalable, repeatable and sustainable ways to grow the business using full funnel marketing. Growth Hacking requires discipline in following a process of prioritising ideas, testing and analysing their effectiveness before deciding which to keep, and which to drop. All within short time frames, and with the goal to maximise ROI and growth.

Effective personal branding will differentiate you from the competition and allow you to build trust with prospective clients. As an entrepreneur or business owner, you have competitors. As a personal brand, however, you don’t. Sure, there might be other people and companies selling similar products and services as you, but they are not you. In fact, there is no other person in the world that is exactly like you.

When it comes to prospecting, we know that merely making calls and talking to whoever answers the phone or is at the front desk isn't likely going to get us very far. We then actually have to have something to corner our buyer's interest, something that will shake up their status quo. We do this in the form of insights. These are pieces of information, possibly statistics, which point to a need that our buyer has and may interest them that they haven't considered yet.

There’s a big hole in most B-to-B marketing organizations created by constant changes within the marketing profession. These changes include the transformation from marketing as a cost center to a revenue center, the rise and use of digital technology to enable that transformation and the pivot to customer-centricity. Marketers are scrambling to respond to these changes. The glue to make all of this work that’s missing is marketing enablement.

Utilizing smart pricing strategies when selling products, services or subscriptions is a must to succeed in a competitive marketplace. The worst thing you can do is to try to wing it when it comes to pricing. Many entrepreneurs and marketers make this mistake.

Sadly only 39% of marketers enjoy the privilege of having a sound marketing strategy that is perfectly aligned with their specific goals. Goals, and any further business plans, require informative strategies. Excellent content marketers don't take a blind dive. How successful are you with building your content marketing strategy?