Sales-Marketing Alignment: What B2B marketers can learn from a one-person team that drove a 10% product demo conversion
This is a case study that Marketing Sherpa wrote about one of our customers. Although it was written in 2011 the process is still the same. SUMMARY: Marketing/Sales alignment receives a lot of attention because when these teams work closely together, the
When It Comes to Sales, the Phone Is Your Most Powerful Tool
A number of our customers use us to follow up on social media campaigns. To have a really effective digital marketing campaign a phone number should always be required before content (white paper, coupon, demos) is given away. This will
How to Handle Rejection in Cold-Calling
Although b to b telemarketing is a lot less negative than b to c telemarketing it still takes a thick skin to handle the rejection that can occur when making cold calls. Even when making follow up calls (warm calls)
10 Sales Stats to Keep in Mind in 2016
To utilize these sales stats one would have to utilize the phone efficiently and effectively. We’ve done several campaigns helping companies with their b to b sales process with follow up calling and lead qualification. Here are ten sales stats, accompanied by
Prospecting
This article from Entrepreneur not only defines prospecting but differentiates between cold, warm and hot prospects and how each should be handled. Customers use IT’S YOUR CALL for all aspects of prospecting. Definition: The search for potential customers or buyers . When it comes to drumming up new
9 Steps to Revitalize Your B2B Trade Show Marketing Strategy
March is the start of Trade show Season! The article below discusses trade show marketing strategy for before during and after exhibiting at the show. Interesting that under the follow up section email is used and there is no method
10 Lead Generation Strategies To Explore In Your B2B Organization
This article is a great resource for creating strategies for Inbound and Outbound marketing campaigns. I would add that most of the inbound strategies should have a follow up phone call component which would help to further qualify the prospects. Two
With Sales 2.0, Cold Calling Warms Up
Lately, we’ve been hired to do a lot of database cleaning and surveys but really our customers are hiring us to do cold calling which will help them to develop a targeted marketing list. A list is given to us and our
Best Practices for Following Up After the Trade Show
It’s Your Call will be exhibiting at the #CTBEXPO this Thursday June 9 at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford. We’ll be across from the Sales Education Hub booth #337! We can help with the Follow Up for the b to b lead
How to Build Rapport with Sales Prospects
In practically every sales training guide the first step when selling is to create a rapport. One of the under rated results of performing a cold calling campaign is that a rapport is being developed with the prospects. Making calls to an existing database to