Business owners and executives often tell us if they can just get in front of a prospect, they’ll almost always “close the sale”. Based on our experience, people tend to overestimate their close rate success. Most businesses don’t even measure close rates, but if they...
When business owners and executives ask us which marketing tactics work best; advertising, direct marketing, internet marketing, trade shows, etc., our response is to ask them about their growth objectives. What do growth objectives have to do with marketing? The...
Online marketing has become foundational to all business development activities. Going forward, all effective marketing initiatives will have an online component. It’s the “new normal”. Simply put, online marketing is the use of appropriate, available electronic tools...
What is Pinterest? It seems new social media platforms are emerging daily. One that is receiving considerable attention, and credibility from a business standpoint, is Pinterest. Pinterest is a photo sharing site that has started to gain the momentum of a social media...
When people hear the term online marketing, they typically think of tools such as web sites, email distribution systems or social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter. These are certainly important elements of online marketing. But the key to online success...