Business development and inside sales professionals come across many hurdles that they must solve in order to keep a business up and running. Below are five common obstacles that the sales industry and business development face on a daily basis and five solutions that will prepare them for handling that problem. 1. Obstacle: A prospect [...]
Lead Generation Company Benchmarking As a business owner and marketing guy - I am consistently evaluating other lead generation company prices and marketing service offerings. Here are few things I have learned to look for: Do they offer a performance-based guarantee? Relevant and detailed testimonials? Trial, or test phase? As you negotiate and determine lead [...]
Performance-Based Marketing Company Referral Program Do you know other people who are in need of performance-based marketing services? We're willing to pay you a 5% commission on all services rendered over 6 months for every newly procured client. You do not need to do any selling for Prospectr, just get us the meeting and we'll [...]
This article discusses prospecting strategies and how to efficiently reach your target market. Media Channels Frequency Reach Calendar Audiences Creative Activity Reporting Marketing campaigns establish brand image, whether good, or bad your campaign is influencing your target audience’s perception of your brand. Marketing emails can be redundant, sales calls can be insistent enough to irritate. [...]
Understanding how your messages are passively discovered is an interesting factor in determining your investment strategy. Many paid techniques for passive discovery - such as banner advertising for instance - are inherently trackable. However, it is equally true that the great content that allows your organization to earn passive discovery is often much less trackable. [...]
Optimized Lead Generation Lead generation requires us to understand and follow the different stages of engagement that a business prospects progresses through. By analyzing a buyers "digital body language' you can categorize buyers as the following: Inactive Aware Engaged Interested Needs Analysis of some sort Solution Presentation Solution Proposal Commitment and Negotiation Closed Deal At [...]
Revenue Performance Management is rooted first and foremost in clearly understanding buyers' interests, motivations and goals from the earliest stages of awareness through to purchase, account growth, and advocacy of our solutions. Buyers are motivated, or triggered by internal events at their company, guided by conversations with their peers and influenced by chance discovery of [...]
Marketers can no longer sit back and "buy attention" through mass media and then rely on professional salespeople to step in to guide buyers from discovery call through close. Engaging the changed buyer requires new insight. Search is the new sales person. "The buyer searching for information must be educated. Perceptions must change. Objections must [...]
Many early-stage sales engagements happen almost exclusively online today sales and marketing executives who understand and plan for this will increase revenue. Buyers do not need a sales rep until they are further along in the discovery phase. These buyers are researching online, receiving and forwarding emails. These online behaviors can give us important clues [...]
Basic questions to ask about your marketing spend regarding how to improve lead generation: How much will it really cost? Is the objective clear: Are we looking to gain awareness, interest, or response? What are the expected results? On what basis are those results expected? Best and worst cases. Would you approve the campaign if [...]