Chief Outsiders

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

(Blog 1) Step Zero: The Dark Funnel. If your sales funnel is lurking in the shadows, it may be because it’s filled with people who are trying to avoid the spotlight. They make your metrics charts look happy but your sales teams – not so much.

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Chief Outsiders

APRIL 6, 2023

From a global pandemic to a robust rebound, and a return to spending skittishness, it’s been difficult to pinpoint exactly how the market is going to react to the transaction of commerce. The past three years have been heady times indeed for sellers. CEOs need a safe harbor because the marketplace represents a rolling sea of choppy tides.

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Chief Outsiders

APRIL 11, 2024

Learn how to accelerate revenue growth by shortening your sales cycle. Discover the seven steps to success and a real-life example of significant growth achieved through effective marketing strategies.

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Peter Winick

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Nora explains how you need to tie activity to business outcomes and understand what action you want them to take next, moving them deeper into your content but not necessarily leading them into a sales funnel. Not all calls to action must lead into the sales funnel. There’s not a direct line to sales.

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Peter Winick

DECEMBER 18, 2022

And it’s the difference between marketing and selling as a thought leader. And as a general rule, when you’re moving into the B2C space, that’s marketing. It’s high volume, low ticket, sales funnels, etc. And selling is different than marketing. The post Are you marketing or selling?

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Chief Outsiders

APRIL 20, 2022

“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.” ? Peter Drucker. Why is it that the best run companies often have the hardest time growing?

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Ascend

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The essential thing sellers and marketers need to know to get results from the campaigns they run every day is what contacts in the sales and marketing database are qualified potential customers.

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Jackie Nagel

JUNE 14, 2023

Your marketing and sales funnels are functioning beautifully and creating a consistent stream of clients for your business. The Messy Middle vortex, or stage two of business growth and development , is the natural progression following establishing your start-up foundation. You’ve proven your business model.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 20, 2016

[Andrew: Paid marketing remains an integral part of many products’ acquisition channels, and one of the key metrics is Cost of Customer Acquisition, which is a nuanced calculation with lots of gotchas. Key Question #1: How long between your marketing/sales touch points and when someone becomes a customer?

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Peter Winick

JULY 13, 2023

We learn how it requires a multi-step marketing process that creates multiple touch points, allowing potential clients to get to know you, what you stand for, and the problems you are able to solve. Vaughn explains how the two main marketing platforms he has been using are LinkedIn and podcasting. Contact us for more information.

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AIHR

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Problem: The employee is an excellent designer who is unable to meet deadlines, resulting in social media marketing campaigns that are presented after the due date. As a product-based business, this results in lost sales. Example 5: Consistently missed sales targets. Budgets are based on these sales projections.

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Chief Executive

JUNE 3, 2022

For instance, content marketing and web design agency Jawfish Digital displays its packages using “ the rule of three.”. . Increase exposure to the sales side. Oftentimes, you’ll find a line between marketing and sales. As agency workers, account executives tend to operate exclusively on the marketing side of business.

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Chief Outsiders

JULY 2, 2024

Out for a walk on a cool May morning, I saw a pickup truck pull alongside. It was Ray from up the street. Are you around May 31 st ?” I’m having a 99 th birthday party.” That’s funny, I thought, Ray can’t be much over 70. Yep, this one is my 99 th. Last year’s party was my 100 th.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. This year, I retired the funnel — threw it a party, gave it a gold watch, and congratulated it on its move to a condo in Florida. When I started my career, the most profitable application of force was in sales. It was the right thing to do.

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AIHR

JUNE 3, 2024

These potential candidates may not necessarily be in the job market, but if their skills and experience match different role requirements, employers or recruiters may be able to interest them in exploring available positions. Automation can help you source potential employees in various ways.

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Zenefits

JUNE 26, 2022

Sales processes. A solid Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform makes it easier to automate sales funnels and keep your sales team on task. You can automate email sequences that alert your sales team when it’s time to follow up with a call. Online marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2012

When I came to HubSpot five years ago, I had never run a sales team, so I didn't know the conventional techniques that sales managers use. There were four tactics I wanted to be laser focused on to achieve this mission: Hire the same successful sales person every time. Hire the same successful sales person every time.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2017

But today’s sales technologies enable companies to measure almost anything, which leads many managers to try to measure everything. As a consequence, managers don’t have a clear sense of what is really driving sales in their business, while salespeople, who are inundated with dozens of metrics, get lost in the day-to-day noise.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2018

In the past decade, content marketing has become a widely established practice. Companies have hired writers and Chief Content Officers to run departments, create blogs and other materials, and, in the process, some have assured sales people that content marketing can mean the end of cold calling.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

When formulating a strategy, markets and segments are important categories to consider. But a market never buys anything. Either directly in meetings or implicitly in their compensation plans, they basically tell their sales forces to “Go forth and multiply!” Creating the right sales processes and incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Dan Lyons’s book Disrupted is an often-delightful tour through startup culture, based on the author’s experience working at online marketing firm HubSpot. Despite taking the faux-curmudgeonly attitude of an anthropologist exploring the strange world of business dudes — is a sales funnel really that much of a novelty?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

So any effective sales model must adapt to changing buying protocols, not ignore or resist them. This is a big transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. Don’t believe the hype.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

And the advocacy vendors who've been serving these companies for years can kick start a vibrant apps market for Facebook's platform. They use targeted surveys and software that not only compile results, but also generate a variety of marketing communications such as testimonials, blog posts, success stores and the like.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

You can control what you say in an ad, sales meeting, or company memo, but when people connect peer-to-peer, you lose direct control over what is said or done. A similar change is happening in marketing, as ad spend shifts from push strategies that broadcast a message to pull strategies that respond to or even predict customer interest.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2018

Thoughtfully managed, recommendations can prove far more valuable to marketers than for the customers they ostensibly serve. Recommendation engines not only generate useful data for analyzing customer desires; they can be harnessed to make tactical and strategic recommendations for marketers. Data-Driven Marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The bad lead: It’s like a big piece of gunk gumming up the works in your sales funnel. Not only does it stop the flow of better prospects, but it does so seemingly out of nowhere. So would it surprise anyone to learn that these leads are completely in the company’s control?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Furthermore, they engage customers more as users than as buyers, shifting their investments from pre-purchase promotion and sales to post-purchase renewal and advocacy. We also supplemented the survey with well-known brand rankings, Net Promoter Scores (NPS), and an analysis of their marketing expenditures and strategies.

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Help Scout Leadership

JUNE 22, 2021

Customer service, when done well, has just as much impact as a strong sales funnel or excellent marketing efforts. It’s easier to make a sale when your customers feel supported, and word-of-mouth marketing after an extraordinary experience is one of the best pitches on the market. Not convinced? Deloitte ).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

With a $25,000 personal investment and a small office in her home, she began aggregating sales leads and aggressively acquiring customers through very traditional marketing means — like yellow page advertisements. Data-Driven Marketing. It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. Insight Center.

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Chief Outsiders

APRIL 5, 2022

Thank you for joining me today for the eulogy of the marketing qualified lead, or MQL. Once hailed as the best way to affix a value to a prospective sale in the digital age, we are here to toll the bell to its early demise. What led to the hastened death of the MQL?

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Peter Winick

MAY 4, 2023

If you need a strategy to bring your thought leadership to market, Thought Leadership Leverage can assist you! In addition, we can help you implement marketing, research, and sales. I created a sales funnel to like create a process and, and figure out my qualified leads and move people through the pipeline.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

“Death of a B2B Salesman,” a new report from Forrester Research , lends urgency to the need for companies to rethink and radically transform their sales models by incorporating digital media into their processes. Map the customer journey and redesign your sales funnel.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

Now, because of smartphones and tablets, marketers need to fundamentally rethink things. To adapt to this transformation, marketers must begin by recognizing that, in this new world of mobile commerce, the traditional sales funnel is dead. Mobile is turning "path to purchase" on its head. The Set-Up: The Pre-Buy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

Need more information about a consumer before you can welcome them into your sales funnel? Many mobile marketing services offer to qualify the lead for you, using a call center service to follow up with the customer using the number they provided on the (very short) form. Advertising Marketing' Phones not ringing enough?

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Peter Winick

DECEMBER 7, 2023

William describes how they’ve created detailed “personas” (also called “avatars”) to guide their marketing. Content-based marketing and thought-based leadership that doesn’t come from the top it’s not going to work in the organization. Contact us for more information. This is Peter Winick.

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