Marketing automation software helps businesses with all of their customer experience and marketing efforts including email marketing, content marketing, and SEO, all of which improve their customer journey and shape their marketing strategies. This also helps businesses identify and retain the right customers, improve brand awareness and loyalty, and build resilient customer relationships that provide repeat sales and increase business revenue. With all of these benefits, it isn’t surprising that the global marketing automation market size reached $5.2 billion in 2022 and is projected to exceed $9.5 billion by 2027. Given this fast-growing market, it’s crucial to stay on top of the latest automation trends so that your small business can take advantage of those new developments.

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.

Personalization messaging uses customer data like past purchases, demographics, and browsing history to tailor digital marketing to a consumer’s unique character traits. It’s so common that consumers now expect it in emails, text messages, and in-app experiences. Here are the top personalization tips in digital marketing as well as how to personalize emails, text messages, and in-app messages to retain customers and boost your brand experience.

Whether you have difficulty with sales and selling yourself, or you have trouble bottling up the magic that is your passion for selling your product or service to your team members, it is essential that you learn how to build an effective and scalable sales strategy for your business to ascend the growth curve.

Virtual events aren’t a new concept, but when the global pandemic struck, organizations found themselves having to forgo in-person events for virtual ones. At that time, research showed that virtual events were up 1,000 percent, but event planners were still playing catch-up. Though 76 percent of event planners were going virtual, only 40 percent of those said they were knowledgeable about how to plan and execute these events.

Sales tech is defined as a set of tools that help accelerate and enhance sales productivity by enabling sales reps to use their time and customer intelligence as effectively and efficiently as possible. Sales enablement is also a subset of sales tech which has become increasingly popular as we recognize the power of content as a tool in B2B marketing and sales; and as we get better at leveraging technology to help with buyer engagement through their journey.

Studies show it takes an average of eight calls to get someone on the phone, so don’t torch all that hard work by asking something shallow like “How was your weekend?” Instead, make it memorable so that they’ll not only want to talk with you, but also remember you well after the call.

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.

The 6 principles of persuasion that has been scientifically proven to be an effective tool to increase your sales revenue. There will be many unscrupulous people out there that would use this information to manipulate and coerce people into buying a product or service that is not needed or fit for purpose – in short con men / women.

It is rare to jump in a sales process without facing objections, but maybe you did such a great job presenting that you made the sale with no questions asked. If you did, good for you. Most of the time, the prospect raised some objections. So how did you deal with them?

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.

To succeed in sales today, we need sales enablement to support and do the heavy lifting to ensure we have the tools we need to focus on what we are best at, selling products and services. Sales enablement enhances our skills and is badly needed in a fast-paced, overcrowded, and continuously shifting marketplace.

A few days ago, I trained a sales and marketing team and reviewed the alignment talking about tools that help reframe the process. We came along with how Linkedin not only influenced Marketing and Advertising but also has a considerable impact on all the B2B companies.

Being a salesperson can be a complicated profession, especially since you have to master a combination of hard and soft skills, and fine-tune your techniques to make more sales. The common mistakes salespeople make that cause them to lose sales. Here the top 5 most common mistakes salespeople make.

It reminds me a little bit about the metaphor about how do you climb a mountain, one small step at a time. When we start our day, and we know we need to do a bunch of prospecting, especially telemarketing or cold calling, the task can certainly feel like you're standing there at the base of the mountain. This is especially true when we might be a little behind our number for the month. This is why small, manageable goals are so important.

LinkedIn is becoming the go-to channel for salespeople to find new prospects and reach their sales targets. 90% of top-performing salespeople now use LinkedIn as part of their sales strategy. And for sales reps that invest in social media, 64% of them hit their team quota compared to only 49% of reps hitting their team quota that don't use social media

As a copywriter or marketer, it’s your job to relate to your audience. You need to frame the problem that they are experiencing and offer a solution. A critical part of copywriting is the creative use of emphasis and empathy but just how do you use this to make a lasting impact?

If you're not growing, your competitors are, which means you're losing out on new business. The biggest challenge is finding strategies to help you achieve growth. You can't predict the future to find out what's the next big thing in sales. However, you can take to heart the hottest sales trends today and use them to your advantage.Knowing and understanding sales and marketing trends allows you to prepare your company for the future better.

If you're like most business leaders, you'd say it's fundamentally about relationships and you'd be wrong. The classic relationship building is a losing approach, especially when it comes to selling complex, large-scale business-to-business solutions. This is exactly 20 years that I’m jumping between Business Development, Sales and Marketing and here are the 9 biggest lessons my career has taught me.