There’s always a difference between using a social media platform in your personal time and using it as a marketing channel for your company, and that’s particularly true of small and medium-sized businesses that want to reach their audience via LinkedIn.
In its earliest days, LinkedIn came across...
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Messaging in marketing is deliberate. We use certain language to tell stories and engage current and potential customers. And, yes, make a sale every now and then.
A landing page, which is also known as a lead-capture or destination page, is used to generate leads or make a sale. The goal is to...
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If you're a small-business owner, you only have a set amount of resources and budget you can use for your marketing. Any marketing initiatives usually take up time as well if you haven't passed them to someone else. One thing that many small-business owners struggle with is whether or not they...
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Everyone is familiar with the saying “time is money,” but a lot of business executives may not realize the exact relationship between the time it takes a customer to go through the sales cycle and their ability to achieve their annual financial goals.
When companies start making forecasts, for...
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Some companies are searching, grasping, hungry for just a few more leads.
Other companies are generating an avalanche of leads.
Neither scenario is ideal, and in both cases organizations will face the same challenge.
No matter how many leads you’re generating, the trick is determining which...
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She’s fearlessly moved to new countries where she didn’t speak the language, taken on roles for which she had little previous experience and eagerly dove into learning about new technologies.
Suffice it to say that Elodie Martinez has no problem trying new things. It’s one of the many attributes...
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Have you considered implementing a customer relationship management (CRM) platform? There are seven telltale signs that indicate your company is in need of a CRM platform to generate more sales and facilitate your company’s growth.
It’s hard or impossible to keep up with lead flow.
When you need...
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Someone should do a “streeter” about the definition of customer service.
You know those quick interviews that TV crews sometimes do with a wide range of everyday people, where they’re all asked the same question? That’s what those in the media call a “streeter.”
Streeters are fun in part because...
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It’s the inevitable question — almost an accusation, really — that will often get lobbed at those responsible for content marketing at some point in their professional journey:
“We’re creating all this stuff, but does it really make a difference in terms of our actual business?”
Even if the...
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