Using Storytelling to Engage and Connect with Customers
How many times have you been contacted by a salesperson with a pitch that was robotically delivered without a focus on your business and what
Maximize Marketing Productivity Using These Collaboration Tools
Excessive meetings. Missed deadlines. Emergency fire drills. Conflicting direction. Do any of these scenarios sound familiar? At best, an enterprise marketing department has a lot
How to Increase Your Chances of Targeting the Right Accounts First
How can you find out which companies are interested in you and your solutions before you start your demand generation marketing program, and before you start selling? Consider
Align Once, Measure Twice: Success Metrics for Marketing and Sales Teams
Sometimes I say to myself, “Our work is never done, and that is half the fun!” Those of us in marketing or sales roles must
5 Specific Ways to Guarantee Alignment Between Marketing and Sales
“Sales is calling all the shots on marketing strategy.” Does this sound familiar? In the collaborative dynamic between sales and marketing, there should be a
Improving Lead Follow-up and Conversion
If your company is like most, chances are it expends significant resources on B2B lead generation, and you need to ensure that you are maximizing
How to Engage Senior IT Decision Makers in Key Accounts
We’ve heard this a million times when doing advanced lead generation campaigns: appeal to human instincts. Don’t think of your prospects as monolithic automatons. So even when trying
Using Customer-Related Content to Drive Demand
Using Customer-Related Content Involving customers in marketing has always been a successful tactic for businesses, particularly those who are B2B. Your prospects want to hear
Why is Data Hygiene Important in Marketing?
When marketing campaigns fail and the post-mortem is conducted, companies tend to point to the message, timing, or execution everything but what is at
Effective B2B Marketing Planning Begins with Understanding Your Target Customers
Savvy business owners know that they need to do effective business planning to be successful. Any business plan should include a robust marketing plan with
Capturing Customers’ Attention During These Crazy Times
Your customers are busy and have limited attention spans as it is. So, with everything going on right now with the pandemic and the
Online Lead Generation: Not All Leads are Created Equal
Online lead generation can be a complex endeavor that consumes your entire sales and marketing force. After all, generating business starts with generating leads and,
How SimplyDIRECT Can Inform Your Marketing Plan
Chances are, especially given the current business environment, your marketing plan has changed, or it needs to change.
On-Demand Data: The Most Accurate Data Possible
With so many of our workforce currently laid off or furloughed, are you confident your marketing data is up-to-date? Chances are it’s not, if the
Building the (Near) Perfect Database
You may think that a business contact’s direct mail data is accurate, but is it? Like more and more companies today, you may be going
Three Steps to Revive Dormant Leads
Leads who are no longer responding to marketing tactics might seem like dead-ends. If they never progress beyond their initial opt-in (when they downloaded a white paper or attended a webinar), do you scrap these names and start over? At SimplyDIRECT, we don’t think so.
How to Craft the Right Pitch with Research-Based Selling
With our proprietary research-based selling methodology, your target audience actually tells you how to sell to them. You can get right to the point without wasting anyone’s time because you know what is important to the prospect and you can easily craft a pitch that demonstrates how your solution would fill their needs.
How to Enable More Effective Prospecting
What if you didn’t have to try so hard to explain to an admin (or voicemail system) why you should be put through (or have your call returned)? What if when you actually catch your target prospect on the phone, you didn’t get brushed off quickly