Sales

Bad Revenue?

Posted on December 27, 2010. Filed under: Sales, Strategy |

I’ve been reading a book and it brings up the idea of “good” and “bad” revenue. Bad revenue being those ways of increaising profits that actually make your customers angry. Think about the cable company which continues to increase rates but never improves value, or all the extra bank fees that pop-up even though you’ve [...]

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The best direct mail piece that almost caused a divorce

Posted on January 4, 2010. Filed under: Direct Marketing, Sales, Tactical Marketing | Tags: , , , , |

How a good direct mail piece only got me to open it but almost caused a divorce.

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Let the audience create the topic and run the webinar

Posted on November 23, 2009. Filed under: Content development, Sales | Tags: , |

Imagine instead of deciding what to present you sent out an email to your audience and asked them for what topics they want to discuss. Imagine taking the top 5 and developing the content for a webinar and white paper. You may not even have to find experts, rather just be the facilitator, let a [...]

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Sales and Marketing Alignment Closer after Lead Scoring Meeting

Posted on November 16, 2009. Filed under: Direct Marketing, Lead management, Sales | Tags: , |

Technology around lead scoring helping sales align with marketing.

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Eloqua connecting to Salesforce.com

Posted on August 4, 2009. Filed under: Direct Marketing, Lead management, Sales | Tags: , |

We’ve recently begun developing plans to connect to Salesforce and Eloqua so information can be shared. It will help align sales and marketing with a platform that crosses the chasm between the two systems. But it’s not too difficult from a technical aspect – it’s more about the business rules and processes that may have [...]

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Linking Sales Performance to Sales Automation

Posted on April 30, 2009. Filed under: measurement/ROI, Sales |

As we improve our sales automation system, the sales group has also been reworking the sales process to help standardize the sales process. Four phases and dozens of questions/activities later the new process is born. Unfortunately, without some way of recording the questions/answers the sales person is suppossed to get and the activities that show [...]

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Tax Time perfect Opportunity to Win New Business

Posted on April 2, 2009. Filed under: Partner relations, Sales, Tactical Marketing | Tags: , , , |

Tax people need to look beyond the client work to learn more.

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