Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Organic search remains an invaluable marketing channel for business-to-business (B2B) organizations looking to capture relevant non-brand search demand and manage their brand reputation. These key traits are then used to generate a profile that summarizes what an ideal customer looks like for your business. What is B2B SEO?

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B2B B2C Non-Profits Education 113

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 16, 2023

I’ve written about how we are trapped in “business as usual.” Make sure it has nothing to do with sales, marketing, customer experience, or even business. How we seem to continue to do the same things, over and over, even when they are failing. What if we fail?”

Conversion 113

Conversion Follow-up Prospecting Start-ups 113

Martech

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Further down on the table, you’ll see Toxins, a category for practices that can poison your email marketing efforts, and Traps, which you’ll want to be aware of falling into. Email has long been one of the most reliable marketing channels for getting your messaging in front of your customers. Compliance.

Legal 112

Legal Trust Strategize Drivers/motivators 112

Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Managing an SEO team usually means that you’re taking on the world with some talented people. The path to success in business (outside of SEO, even outside of marketing) is the path of least resistance. SEO is a vast and complex practice, part art and part science. Yet, Google’s dynamic search algorithms render them outdated.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 12, 2023

Executives are busy, and as a result, they’re often impatient. Tie this back to the main goals of the project or business if not readily apparent.) The executive needs to know what you did, but they usually don’t need to know how you did it. Presenting to executives is not one of them. What happened?

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SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2023

Mistake: On the other hand… not betting on the team that got me there “Everything will be fine once we get a new head of [X]” -every startup CEO ever (also me, frequently) When you launch a company, the initial team is usually whoever you can get. This thought is usually accompanied by a vague statement like “this person isn’t scaling.”

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Find your products valuable and also see your business as an extension of themselves. On the other hand, they are much more likely to bring you even more business – superfans often become walking marketing campaigns for things they like, spreading word of mouth as much as their connections allow them. Sounds great, doesn’t it?

Niche 137

Niche Intrinsic Campaign B2B 137

Hubspot

MAY 15, 2019

In the MLB, or Major League Baseball, players who have used performance enhancing drugs have also tainted their careers. For years, many baseball players abused steroids, and it sparked an aggressive campaign to eliminate performance enhancing drugs from the game. Any organization who is a known spammer has tainted their brand.

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Hubspot

MAY 18, 2023

The ability to negotiate can bring you and your business tremendous advantages. There are only a few occasions where we typically have the ability to negotiate, and they are usually high-stakes such as buying a house or taking a new job. Yet, many salespeople approach negotiations with trepidation. Use the bracketing technique.

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 25, 2021

“ My guest is Geoff Webb , Vice President Solutions, Product, and Marketing Strategy at isolved. Listen in now, read below or watch the video ! Well, welcome everyone to another episode of Sales Pipeline Radio. So happy to have you joining us. I am your host, Matt Heinz. For those of you are watching live on LinkedIn, live on YouTube.

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Pipeline Growth Sales X-functional 112

Search Engine Land

JULY 19, 2023

A high churn rate indicates that a significant number of customers are leaving, which can have negative implications for businesses. If you answered yes to both questions, don’t panic but get busy. If you can’t answer such questions, then get busy too! To grow your agency, you need to lose some clients. What is churn rate?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2021

They crop up all the time in business pitches (usually on accident), but you must be vigilant to avoid them. Almost every business claims their products and service are the best in the industry. Words matter. The right words can give you the boost you need to make a winning sales pitch every time. 6 Words and Phrases to Avoid.

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Gong.io

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Here’s how you get out of this trap, with one magic heck-of-a-sentence about the sales objection they named: “If we somehow figured out how to solve that issue completely, what other obstacles would we have to overcome before moving forward?”. Customers usually state them pretty plainly, not like smokescreen objections.

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Objection handling Technique Sales Pitch 108

Search Engine Land

JANUARY 30, 2023

They are usually longer (three to five words) and have a lower search volume. It can be a really effective approach because the searcher’s intent is usually much clearer with long-tail terms. It’s easy to go after bigger wins, but focusing on the smaller gains can lead to powerful long-term results. Nearly 95% of U.S.

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Search Engine Land

JUNE 30, 2023

Why do so many people feel like they’re trapped in the deepest well of their personal misgivings? Look within When imposter syndrome is defined in various papers, online forums, and discussions with my peers, it’s usually described as a feeling. I'm writing an article for @sengineland about the infamous imposter syndrome.

Legal 95

Legal Start-ups Engineering Trust 95

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

With green marketing, the products are usually made in a sustainable way, do not contain toxic materials, are produced with recycled or renewable materials, don't have excessive packaging, and are designed to be recycled. There are several third-party green business certifications that can help you market your sustainability practices.

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Transportation Legal Promote Price 72

SalesLoft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Most top-of-the-funnel sales leaders are tracking the usual suspects. Customers will lose trust in you, and spam traps will begin disqualifying you. Encourage your sales team to adopt these practices, and you’ll avoid spam prison, provide your customers with a better buying experience, and ultimately win more business.

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Quota Contact Prospecting Technique 52

Sales Hacker

MAY 3, 2019

Avoid these common traps. In the movie “Dirty Harry,” Clint Eastwood’s character asks one of his “bad guys” what has become an iconic question… “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?”. Sadly, many salespeople feel like they’re facing off to Dirty Harry every time they have a Pipeline Review.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Avoid paid keyword traps. It's important to understand the intent behind search terms, because you want to avoid keyword traps. Let's examine another example of a keyword trap. If your SEO (search engine optimization) and PPC (pay per click) teams exist in complete silos, it's time to change that.

Gambling 101

Gambling CTR Education Campaign 101

Hubspot

JANUARY 9, 2023

Instead of falling into the boring conversation trap above, drive the conversation forward with these unique follow-ups to “How are you?”. In any case, your due diligence will usually impress the buyer. When you’ve only got a couple minutes to build rapport with someone, you don’t want to waste time on conversational fluff.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

You’ve ended up being trapped by the gatekeeper. This is usually a person with the responsibility for procuring a product or service on behalf of others within the organization but they don’t actually own the business problem themselves. Here are 6 of the most important reasons to walk away from a deal …. Reason One.

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Commission Manufacturing Negotiate Quota 76

PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The typical process usually goes like this: Find prospects whose problems align with the solution that the company is selling. That’s why it is especially effective in software development, the chemicals industry, medtech, and other business niches. Solution selling methodology in a nutshell. Long-term efficiency. Longer research.

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Here are four things I learned from those conversations: Marketers feel trapped and suffocated by the controlling and overbearing behavior from executives and finance teams. As marketing professionals, we frequently feel like we are at war with the financial decision-makers of our organizations.

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Finance Objectives and Key Results Assembly Line Trust 116

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

As we gear up for SaaStr Annual 2021 in the SF Bay Area , we wanted to take a look back at some of our most iconic speakers and sessions from over the year, that we can still learn from today. Today, Veeva is at $45B Cloud juggernaut dominating pharma and life science Cloud applications. Get tickets here. TRANSCRIPT . Super cool. applause].

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Non-Profits E-commerce Start-ups Up-sell 132

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Hiring someone who’s never really been a manager at all, for a management role, for a true “owner” role … is usually a stretch too far. And if you under-hire too much (Mistake #1) and/or underpay (Mistake #2) … you’ll never get out of this trap. And yet, they/we all tend to make the same mistakes.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 9, 2022

The challenges moving from a training business to a software company [11:57]. In this episode, we’ve got Shaan Hathiramani with us. Shaan is the Founder and CEO of Flockjay. Shaan started Flockjay as a way to train people from non technical backgrounds and usher them into the tech ecosystem primarily through sales. What You’ll Learn.

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Retail Hospitality Growth Sports 80

Gong.io

MAY 18, 2018

After the initial small talk and greetings of the web conference, account executives who conduct compelling sales presentations prime the prospect with a “contextual overview,” usually lasting less than two minutes. Unfortunately, the “best” ideas floating around the Internet will likely land you dead in the water. Our data team at Gong.io

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Presentation Quota Sales Prospecting 130

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Any change to the business — whether its a simple change to your product’s pricing or packaging, or an acquisition requiring the integration of new CRM data with your existing data — means your system needs to be adapted. Technographic data records the types of technologies used by the business. Reliable data is everything….

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Government Process Objectives and Key Results Commission 58

Hubspot

JANUARY 4, 2021

Businesses will find new ways to encourage online connections. Marketers are community-minded people. We collaborate across multiple departments in our own companies, while keeping track of competitive players and ensuring we're deeply connected to the needs and goals of our customers. Virtual Events. Imagine a virtual event running 24/7.".

A/B testing 101

A/B testing Tradeshows Education B2C 101

Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

This week’s show is called “ Managing and Measuring Marketing Performance “ My guest is Casey Carey , CMO at Kazoo. Join us as we dive into defining, measuring, and managing marketing performance in a variety of different ways and levels. Listen in now, read below or watch the video ! Matt: All righty. Casey: Hey, Matt.

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Pipeline Objectives and Key Results Sales Strategize 115

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

How you decide to invest in marketing channels can make or break your business. Rather, marketers get trapped in the fervent anxiety of needing to be everywhere at once. Not all of these will work for your business, but it helps to know what’s out there when determining a marketing strategy. Paid Acquisition.

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Growth Referrals Niche Strategic partnership 118

ConversionXL

JULY 2, 2019

In theory, our analytics department would work seamlessly to make the whole business profitable. In real life, it often struggled for constant improvement—new people, new business goals, and new technologies disrupted steady progress. Our baseline: Mapping the ideal analyst workload. 8 ways our analytics team was struggling.

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Objectives and Key Results Clients Education Growth 121

Gong.io

DECEMBER 16, 2019

And you might also fall into the trap of your own internal biases, because the natural way to actually get folks that have a good cultural fit is to get referrals from people within our own company. . I would say that’s usually 50% of misalignment issues. . Trying to interview for cultural fit is always a hard thing. DDU for short.

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Growth Territory Referrals Start-ups 62

A Sales Guy

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Here’s the deal, when prospects aren’t responsive it usually means, they aren’t really ready, they don’t have the authority in the first place, they’re just “looking,” they’ve already found another solution and are working you for better pricing or any other myriad of detrimental reasons to the sale.

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Prospecting Quota Price Closing 122

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Yes, there are usually a few initial questions like, “What are you trying to achieve? To be fair, sometimes our customers, to our delight, fall into the same trap. .” It wasn’t much different than any other discovery call I’ve listened to. The sales person was asking the customer about their needs.

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Customers Manufacturing Pitch Technique 58

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Running a business takes everything you have. And five years after they start, half of them are out of business. That amount should cover salaries, benefits, and overhead while leaving enough profit to reinvest in the business or offer bonuses to high-achieving team members. A decade later, two-thirds have called it quits.

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Profit margin Clients Start-ups Strategize 71

Lead Fuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

He suggests that there†s a digital comparison trap. When I†m too busy, I tend to lose sight of my mental wellbeing. Patience is key to decision making. Here are 5 ways you can improve patience every day and improve your sales success. It†s hard to remain patient in today†s world. They just won†t wait.

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