Gen Z, who are they, what makes them tick, what's shaped them? Do you know the difference between a digital pioneer, or a digital native? Do you know the best traits to connect with gen Z?

As with a lot of other business disciplines, in marketing, decisions are typically informed by some kind of evidence, or so we hope, the evidence base for making marketing decisions can include lots of different things. For example, we might make use of tried and tested frameworks & textbook approaches recalled from our university days or found through a quick Google search or read of a Wikipedia page.

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?

Imagine you were a luxury car company like Mercedes Benz. Would you spend money advertising in teen magazines or at high schools, or in areas where people don't drive cars? Likely not. Probably because teens can't afford your car, even though they might aspire to, and people who don't drive probably don't care about car companies

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.

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?

"Leads" the starting point for a universal language between sales and marketing. There is no way sales and marketing work cooperatively if they disagree on basic terms, concepts, and definitions.

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.

Turnover is primarily due to the incompetence of sales leadership and poor company decisions. Any organization that value human dignity, respect its employee, and treat them right will experience excellent talent retention and favorable market reputation.

If you’re like most business leaders, you’ve probably put brand-building on the back burner as you deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. 81% of companies have deferred marketing, according to the World Federation of Advertisers. And even Google is slashing its marketing budgets by as much as half for the second half of the year (CNBC.)

There are many sales techniques to close deals faster and sell more effectively. If you’re a B2B salesperson maybe you have already heard of some of them, like SPIN Selling, SNAP selling, Challenger Sale, Sandler Sale method or Consultative selling.

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.

Yes Sales Enablement in not just another buzzword, but it is a modern way to approach the market, when you empower your sales team with the right resources, materials, and tools, they'll have the ability to sell more effectively and efficiently. Meaning, your business will experience a boost in revenue and, therefore, an increase in your number of customers and brand advocates.

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?