Closing Bigger

AUGUST 30, 2015

In order to win in today’s sales environment you need to stay ahead of your competitors and in-sync with your customers. Sales skills, training and strategy play a huge role in your success BUT for most people being tied up in a classroom or conference is too time consuming. My goal was to make to create a world class sales course that was accessible and affordable to individual sales people, sales leaders, entrepreneurs and anyone else who wants to learn about selling.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

You’ve found your way to this article, but you probably won’t read it start to finish. You’ve read the stats. According to Copyblogger, 80% of people will read a headline , but only 20% read the body. 38% of people who click on a site will leave before engaging with the content at all. People will share copy, effectively vouching for its quality, when they’ve only read 25% of it.

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The Sales Hunter

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Does your level of sales drive your motivation or does your motivation drive your sales? Yes, it is a chicken or egg type of question. In my mind they drive each other, but in the end I want to close as many sales as possible, so it means my motivation needs to be at […].

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Instagram is a platform that has demonstrated tremendous growth. In fact, the Instagram community grew to over 400 million users this past year. Despite its impressive reach, many business owners are still overlooking its marketing potential. As a result, they're leaving high levels of engagement, brand awareness, and even profit on the table. But why?

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SBI

JUNE 23, 2015

Most principles used in B2B selling today have been in place since the late nineteenth century and coincide with the rise of large mass manufacturing firms. National Cash Register, Westinghouse Electric and others created large, organized sales forces and with them, standardized sales and sales management techniques. It was innovation in technology that drove innovation in sales.

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Closing Bigger

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Today’s podcast ( download here ) is focused on why Influencer Engagement programs are vital and how to run one effectively in the B2B sales and marketing space. Following is brief abridged version of what I cover in the podcast: In a recent study (by Augure ) of over 600 B2B marketing professionals 93% of them stated that they considered influencer engagement as an effective strategy to build brand awareness. 75% cited influencer engagement as an effective in lead generation.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Email marketing is one of the fastest ways to drive sales of any online channel. Think about it… What other channel can you launch something and drive sales immediately? But the biggest challenge most businesses face is they don’t have an email database (which I’ll interchangeably refer to as a ‘list’) big enough to see the benefits of email. Why the ‘traditional’ method of growing an email database doesn’t work.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 17, 2015

There’s a philosophical statistics debate in the optimization in the world: Bayesian vs Frequentist. This is not a new debate; Thomas Bayes wrote “ An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances ” in 1763, and it’s been an academic argument ever since. Recently, the issue has become relevant in the CRO world – especially with the announcement that VWO will be using Bayesian decisions (Google Experiments also uses Thompson sampling , which is informed by a Bayesian pers

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Closing Bigger

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Hello Guerrillas! It was great to spend 3 days with you at the Guerrilla Global Summit in Orlando Florida! As promised I am including my presentation deck from my seminar on Guerrilla Social Selling. Remember if you want to take apply to take part in the the Social Media Director program you need to apply by clicking here before 11:59 pm on Friday November 6th.

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Closing Bigger

JANUARY 14, 2015

'A big thanks to the BMO Financial Group for inviting me to speak at your business development conference. LinkedIn as I mentioned is not a strategy, it’s a great tool IF you have the right processes and disciplines in place. The key components of a great LinkedIn in strategy includes: Having a complete profile with a current professional looking picture.

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

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Closing Bigger

APRIL 23, 2015

'Sales management and sales leadership in the near future will look very different from the way it looks today. Every day there’s a new gadget, widget, crm and sales guru touting groundbreaking methodologies. The question is what skills does the sales manager and sales leader of the future really need?

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Closing Bigger

APRIL 10, 2015

'Join us on April 21st to talk about the Future of Selling. I’m honoured and excited to be part of a Twitter chat on this month along with over 30 leading sales authors and thought leaders. It will be held on April 21 st 2015 10 am Pacific / 1 pm Eastern. The future of selling Twitter sales chat. For the first time we are bringing together over 30 leading sales authors and thought leaders to share their insights on the future of selling.

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Closing Bigger

APRIL 30, 2015

Last week I hosted a #SalesTribe twitter chat with 30 sales thought leaders and authors. Social selling and social media use by salespeople is a hot topic. Many people who use Twitter and Facebook shun their use for sales, a lot of this can be attributed to poor practices and lack of skill on the behalf of motivated yet often tactless salespeople.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 9, 2015

They see you when you're slacking. They know when you come in late. They know if you've been bad or good so be good for your work's Secret Santa exchange. But that's not how the song -- or the Secret Santa exchange -- really goes. You spend all day with your coworkers, but come time for your annual gift exchange, you're stuck trying to figure out exactly what Suzie will want that's also in your price range.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Words are hard. Whether you're a published author or just getting started with blogging, it's not always easy to string words together in a way that makes sense, sounds good, and makes the reader feel something. But every marketer should be able to write -- and, more importantly, every marketer can write. It's just a matter of finding the writing environment that works best for you, expanding your vocabulary, asking for feedback (and listening to it), and practicing.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Every year there are tons of amazing marketing events held around the world. Inspiration is shared, knowledge is dropped, and marketers have a chance to geek out over the lineup of speakers. Trouble is, time and resources can often hold many marketers back from attending these events. So rather than let you miss out on the value, we've secured the recordings of the best keynotes from six of the biggest marketing events from around the globe and we're making them available for one day only.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

This post originally appeared on HubSpot's Sales Blog. To read more content like this, subscribe to Sales. Do you actively express interest in wanting to know more about something? Are you constantly testing your campaigns to uncover trends and patterns? Do you find yourself asking a lot of questions? People that are curious by nature tend to fall into this category.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 20, 2015

A few years ago, as I was scrolling mindlessly through my Facebook News Feed, I came across an article that would change the way I ate ketchup forever. It was a super short article by FoodBeast that showed how most people have been using those small paper ketchup cups completely wrong all our lives. Turns out you're not supposed to use the cups as is, but rather, you're supposed to fan out the sides of the cup to increase capacity, like this.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2015

This post originally appeared on HubSpot's Sales Blog. To read more content like this, subscribe to Sales. Have you ever had a day where you just feel like you haven't made any progress? Everyone goes through these peaks and valleys. But if you’re not careful, that feeling will carry over into the next day … and the next day … and the next … until you decide to make a change.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Inbound marketing campaigns are made up of a lot of different elements, making it easy to forget a piece of the puzzle if you're not careful. Did you send a well-segmented email? Do you have engaging tweets and Facebook posts going out at optimal times? Did you optimize your blog posts and landing pages for search? What about ads? Are you running those?

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 8, 2015

You know the phrase, "One man's trash is another man's treasure"? That's how I feel about to-do lists. After all, how you track your tasks depends entirely on the person. Are you looking for a simple interface, or are you hoping to color-code and categorize hundreds of tasks at once? Is this to-do list for yourself, you and your family, or you and your entire team?

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Search engine optimization is complicated. For many, it’s considered a dark art, peppered with unknowns and uncertainties. And while some marketers consider it an exciting challenge, others back away from it in fear that they'll simply never get it right. However, the truth is, if you are doing any kind of online marketing, having even a basic understanding of SEO can help you deliver more successful strategies and campaigns.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

One of the wisest things I've ever read about product marketing came from the writer of a children's book. "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea," said Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, creator of The Little Prince. The goal in crafting a perfect product video is not far off.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 6, 2015

My interest in smarketing best practices started when our Latin American sales team grew a ton in just a few weeks. Suddenly, communication between Sales and Marketing was much harder to get right. When we were a smaller team, I could meet 1:1 with each salesperson and talk about how we could help generate more (and better) leads. but that wasn't scalable as we grew.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 1, 2015

When Apple unveiled its new iPhone and iOS 9 operating system two weeks ago, it dropped a proverbial wet blanket on marketers everywhere: A new feature in the operating system called Content Blockers will now allow iOS 9 users to install ad blocking applications from the App Store. These ad blocking application will let people easily block advertising, trackers, and other third-party scripts.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Close your eyes and picture a one-page, typed document -- maybe a resume, or a letter -- that uses the font Times New Roman. Now, change the font of that document to Courier. Now to Comic Sans. The look and feel of the document would change entirely depending which of those three fonts you employed, right? That's because different fonts were designed specifically for certain contexts.

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Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

I had a co-worker email me the other day asking for a blog post about the benefits of business blogging. "It's for a friend," she said. Sure it was. I told her I'd shoot over one of our up-to-date blog posts about why businesses should blog and. I couldn't find one. Whoops. Quite the meta mistake. So I'm doing it now. If you're trying to explain one of the core tenets of inbound -- business blogging -- to your boss, a coworker, your mom at Thanksgiving, whomever, then send them this post.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

If you were to design a subway map, what would you design for: geographical precision or visual clarity? Is it better for a map to accurately represent the geography at street level, or for it to be abstract and easy-to-understand? In 1972, Massimo Vignelli chose the latter -- visual clarity -- when he designed a map of the New York City subway system.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Guest blogging is a wonderful and mutually beneficial relationship between writer and publication. It's great for the writer, of course, who might be looking to get her name out there as a thought leader and industry expert while also helping grow her own readership. At the same time, it's great for the folks at media outlets. It's a good look for them to publish a diversity of voices and opinions on their site -- not to mention more articles means more indexed pages, which can be a boon for a s

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Creating a video (or video series) to help market your product or service is a no-brainer. It's an easy, shareable way to communicate your company's core message. Chances are though, you don’t have the in-house resources to create a clip or much time to waste on learning video editing software yourself. If you don’t have a ton of experience in video production, it may seem like your only options are to pay a lot of money for someone else to do it, or hack together a bad video on your own.

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Speaker: Deniz Olcay, Senior Director of Product Marketing, and Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager

Modern Sales Content Management (SCM) platforms have become table stakes in the world of sales enablement. Sellers need one-stop access where all of their sales content is stored, organized, deployed, and measured. Today’s modern SCM platforms achieve just that. However, these various platforms also have key differences. In this value-packed webinar, Deniz Olcay and Jake Miller will unravel and debunk the top three SCM myths and explain how to get the most from your SCM solution.

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