Getting customers and vendors involved in promoting how well your products or services meet their needs, so your marketing campaigns become more effective and credible, requires complete marketing communications and planning. Our role as consultants is to help clients structure their conversations around finding value and delivering it. Their clients and vendors, in turn will be more than glad … [Read more...]
Three High ROI Marketing Best Practices (part 1)
If you are interested in getting the most return on investment (ROI) from your sales and marketing budget, you will want to use these best practices to develop your marketing plan, as well as your marketing communications plan. Really understanding who your best customers are, so you could easily profile others just like them. Getting customers and vendors involved in promoting how well your … [Read more...]
What Does Your Brand Say or Not Say about You?
More importantly, what do your customers say about it? One of the most successful B2B brand building tools is the business case study and testimonial because it tells the world who you are and why that is important to them. Best places to spread your brand According to Marty Neumeier, author of The Brand Gap, a brand is a person’s gut feeling about a product, service or organization. It’s not … [Read more...]
Does Your Story Unlock Doors to the C-suite?
Where to begin the conversation How can we focus buyers’ attention on your Value or Unique Selling Propositions (USP) and nurture them with your messages during the buying cycle? We must not only tell the story, we must create tension by using some fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) to question the status quo. It is different for each buyer persona. Economic buyers, especially in the executive … [Read more...]
Does Your Value Proposition Differentiate You?
Buyers want to know ‘Why choose you?’ The first step in getting buyers to ask, “Why choose you?” is having prepared a value proposition, or unique selling proposition (USP) before your sales call. We also believe that it should precede the development of all your marketing communications for every target market. Using the diagram below, you need to differentiate between your offerings and those … [Read more...]
Can You Strategically Attract New business with Published Articles?
Establish the criteria important to customers Why is it so important to be acknowledged in your industry or marketplace? Not just because it delights executives, sales reps and customers, but because it effectively builds credibility. Your story or article can take on a life of its own creating interest and preference for your products or services over your competitors. It can help establish you … [Read more...]
How to Use Buyers’ Digital Body Language to Empower Your Reps (steps 5-7)
Improve demand generation In this last installment of the Seven Steps to Grow Your Business from Website to Sales Funnel, learn how to empower your sales reps with a proven demand generation process and hone your content strategy. Many companies already track clicks of links inside marketing e-mails, but to be truly effective, you need to follow these critical steps on an ongoing basis to … [Read more...]
