Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

Thanks to social media, businesses need to change how they think about influence. 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. The media landscape has become too fragmented to only target individual audiences.

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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. Nor do social media platforms. 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

AUGUST 5, 2015

The AIDA model and its variants are the basis for sales funnels at many B2B firms. The typical funnel starts with a marketing-generated lead for a “suspect” that, after qualification, becomes a “prospect,” and then a customer through steps that are measured and managed. Don’t believe the hype.

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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. Trust Pilot ). Salesforce ). Salesforce ).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Respondents were more likely to hear about legacy brands through advertising and traditional media, compared to digital brands which are more often discovered via social media and direct word of mouth. They recognize that some of the most meaningful activity happens outside the sales funnel.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Fast forward to 2016, and almost all of RedBalloon’s brand advertising was invested in traditional media outlets like radio, print, billboards, and pop-up retail stores. Simson knew that the company had to transform marketing to find previously unexplored audiences and to make media buying decisions more autonomous and efficient.

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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. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

Then rich media arrived on the scene, and over the past couple of years has evolved so quickly that Gartner has even predicted mobile display ad spending will grow and take over from mobile search by 2016. Need more information about a consumer before you can welcome them into your sales funnel?

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