Marketing automation leader Marketo cites research claiming highly personalized mobile and web experiences can lead to a 30% increase in conversion rates and up to a 270% increase in content consumption. Marketo simplifies the approach into 3 big W’s.

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.

Omnichannel is a multichannel approach to sales that focus on providing seamless customer experience whether the client is shopping online from a mobile device, a laptop or in a brick-and-mortar store. Omnichannel gives your B2B customers a unified experience no matter what digital device or platform they are using. It follows that as B2B buyers have become accustomed to Omnichannel e-commerce in B2C, they also want and expect a seamless and consistent B2B experience, the demand is there.

Should brands be advertising and actively marketing right now? Historical data points to a pretty clear answer: If you reasonably can, then yes. So the next question is, where? which destinations are most worthy of investing time and and spend, with confidence you’ll be able to show growth and ROI?

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.

Growing your business starts with a great marketing strategy. Most small business owners skip this step. They get busy with the nitty gritty of actually running their business, that a marketing strategy gets pushed to the side. A Facebook post here. A radio ad there (the sales person said you didn't want to miss out). Throw in a picture on Instagram once a month and they wonder why they aren't seeing an increase in customers.

Not generating leads, sales or follows? If you don’t have your sights set on a specific target audience, you’re missing out. Having a target audience makes everything easier when it comes to building a following. Create content that is specific to your target audience and you’ll begin to attract a like-minded tribe.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.