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Reporting that creates the right marketing-sales conversation about leads

There are many ways that marketing and sales go about measuring their efforts for their own purpose. You have marketing waterfall reports. You have sales forecast reports. You have sales activity reports. You have marketing media metrics. But what about the kind of report that sales and marketing should share together and talk about the most? Which reporting creates the right marketing-sales conversation about leads?

Two reports that ask/answer the right questions for a conversation

While some […]

Victoria Anders2021-01-10T19:12:22+00:00April 13th, 2020|Lead Management, Marketing Leadership, Sales Leadership|

Putting trade show dollars to work

Note: Be sure to check out the Trade Show Dollar Challenge at the end of this post.

Putting trade show dollars to work. Many companies are tightly squeezing their dollars right now, and that is understandable. One easy target is to pocket unspent or refunded trade show dollars as quick savings. This too is understandable. However, what if you can save a good portion of those 2020 trade show dollars while also investing today in a […]

Victoria Anders2020-05-19T00:42:02+00:00April 6th, 2020|Lead Generation, Marketing Leadership, Marketing Strategy, Sales Enablement, Sales Leadership, Virtual Engagements|

B2B Webinars: Build or Buy?

One conversation that catches my attention with B2B marketers is the “why don’t we just host and promote our own webinars instead of spending all those dollars with media companies?” That’s a great question and the answer is based on a clear understanding of what a webinar “is” and “what media companies sell.”

Anatomy of a webinar
The first thing is to have clarity on the required properties of a successful webinar. There are three things:

Webinar […]

Victoria Anders2021-11-09T16:11:18+00:00February 27th, 2020|Content Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Virtual Engagements|

B2B Marketers: The most important questions to ask sales

B2b marketers, when you get sales leadership (or better yet, even just a few of the truly good sales people) in a room, what information should you get from them to create more success for both marketing and sales in your organization? What are the most important questions to ask sales?

There are two key topic areas where your questions will serve you best — value propositions and lead quality/quantity.

Value Proposition

What […]

Victoria Anders2021-02-26T23:31:58+00:00February 21st, 2020|Marketing Leadership, Marketing Strategy, Sales Leadership|

What is your sales team pitching?

What is your sales team pitching: When your sales team sends an email to a prospect to pitch a product, what do they say? It’s very likely that many of you have no idea. You make an assumption that if you have given sales leadership or the sales team the right product/service brochures or other collatoral, or you have given them an approved presentation, or they have sat in a meeting where they were given […]

Victoria Anders2023-03-20T18:32:57+00:00February 12th, 2020|Messaging, Sales Enablement, Sales Leadership|

Where Messaging Matters

You wrote your messaging (some call it value propositions) for your brand and each of your products, now what do you do with that messaging? If you only use messaging in advertising or in a powerpoint or document that you want sales to share, you will miss an important step. Where messaging matters: Everything customer facing

Where messaging matters: Your overall brand messaging and specific product messaging should be used in every customer facing […]

Victoria Anders2021-01-21T19:45:42+00:00February 4th, 2020|Branding, Content Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Messaging|

Improve sales effectiveness with cloud-based sales enablement and automation tool

Product Release: Improve sales effectiveness with cloud-based sales enablement and automation tool. The right message and collateral at a salesperson’s fingertips!

Solution Pitch, a cloud-based sales automation tool, is simply something that sales people dream of and likely don’t have. Now their dreams have come true – your salesperson can use their mobile device or any browser to quickly locate and send their prospect the perfect solution pitch every time.

Sales Challenge

Once a salesperson qualifies […]

Victoria Anders2021-01-13T17:51:46+00:00January 24th, 2020|Lead Management, Marketing Automation, Marketing Strategy, Sales Enablement|

The One-Person B2B Marketing Department Playbook – Chapter 5 – Marketing Content: Baiting the Hook

One-Person B2B Marketing Department Playbook: Chapter 5 – Marketing Content

If you have ever fished, you know that having the right bait greatly increases your chance of catching fish compared to just having a plain steel hook in the water (it’s shiny but not fooling anyone!). If marketing content is a fishing analogy, then your content is the bait.

When engaging marketing prospects to respond […]

Victoria Anders2021-02-22T23:35:27+00:00January 10th, 2020|B2B Marketing Playbook, Marketing Leadership, Marketing Strategy|

How Organizations Waste Perfectly Good Leads – Part 1

How Organizations Waste Perfectly Good Leads

So you’ve just finished an amazing campaign that generated a ton of interest and, more important, qualified leads! You expect sales to be closing left and right, but that is not happening. Why not? Why are these fantastic qualified leads not producing the sales results you expect?

Well, you are not alone.

How organizations waste perfectly good leads is simply by failing to follow up with prospects immediately.

Research clearly […]

Wayne Madden2021-01-26T20:12:00+00:00February 4th, 2019|Lead Management, Sales Enablement, Sales Leadership|