With Penguin 2.0 expected to come soon, there’s been lots of discussion about assessing the quality of links and cleaning up the ones likely to ding you in Google’s search results. Last week, The Sales Lion put out his thoughts about SEO and link-removing, which are based on an email from an SEO company to […]
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So, you’re rolling along with your content strategy, getting traffic via blog articles and generating new leads with awesome TOFU offers. But, how do you separate the good leads from the bad, the non-qualified from the qualified? Lead scoring is an often overlooked, yet critical, aspect of smarketing, which we discussed in our last post […]
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Now that you’ve become an expert in TOFU and MOFU marketing, the leads are rolling in. However, if you don’t have a strong sense of alignment between your marketing and sales teams, those leads could be dropping through the cracks. The traditional relationship between marketing and sales in most organizations has been marked by rivalry. […]
We’ve talked about the buying process but another very important tool is the buyer persona. You may have heard the term avatar, buyer profile, ideal prospect, target market, or others to describe this or something similar. When I use the term, I’m talking about something very specific. A buyer persona as defined by expert Adele […]
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For every client we take on, regardless of what they come to us for, we do a survey of their employees, some of their clients, and if possible, a couple of their prospects. There is no better way to find out a whole lot of information quickly, including: Strengths and weaknesses of the company and […]
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In our last post, we discussed how mastering the top of the funnel (TOFU) is crucial to attracting your prospects to your website and generating leads. Once you’ve generated some leads, you need to nurture, qualify and convert marketing leads into sales qualified opportunities. That’s where the middle of the funnel (MOFU) comes in. MOFU activities […]
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How effective are you at attracting the right kind of visitors to your website and generating qualified leads? You need more than a healthy PPC budget and a website to generate high-quality leads online. You need to become an expert at TOFU marketing. In inbound marketing, the Top of the Funnel (TOFU) is the area […]
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Next year will be here before we know it bringing with it a new opportunity for engaging your business in the social media sphere. In fact, we’re going to go ahead and say you should make strengthening your social media presence your top New Year’s resolution. We could cite many reasons why your business needs social […]
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We know this might be going out on a limb here, but we think Shakespeare might have been wrong. “What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” declared Juliet from the balcony as she pined for her star-crossed lover, Romeo. But when it comes to SEO and keywords, a […]
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Improve Inbound Marketing with Video One aspect of the Internet that continues to amaze us is how fast things change online. The emergence of videos as a vital inbound marketing tool is one of those changes that has come along in recent years to wow us. Just a few years ago, putting regular videos up […]
Fire Your SEO Firm? Penguin 2.0 and The Evolution of Search
With Penguin 2.0 expected to come soon, there’s been lots of discussion about assessing the quality of links and cleaning up the ones likely to ding you in Google’s search results. Last week, The Sales Lion put out his thoughts about SEO and link-removing, which are based on an email from an SEO company to […]
Lead Scoring: How to Focus on the Most Important Leads
So, you’re rolling along with your content strategy, getting traffic via blog articles and generating new leads with awesome TOFU offers. But, how do you separate the good leads from the bad, the non-qualified from the qualified? Lead scoring is an often overlooked, yet critical, aspect of smarketing, which we discussed in our last post […]
Smarketing: Marketing and Sales Alignment is Critical
Now that you’ve become an expert in TOFU and MOFU marketing, the leads are rolling in. However, if you don’t have a strong sense of alignment between your marketing and sales teams, those leads could be dropping through the cracks. The traditional relationship between marketing and sales in most organizations has been marked by rivalry. […]
Build Buyer Personas to Create a More Effective Sales Process
We’ve talked about the buying process but another very important tool is the buyer persona. You may have heard the term avatar, buyer profile, ideal prospect, target market, or others to describe this or something similar. When I use the term, I’m talking about something very specific. A buyer persona as defined by expert Adele […]
How to Use Client Interviews to Grow Your Business
For every client we take on, regardless of what they come to us for, we do a survey of their employees, some of their clients, and if possible, a couple of their prospects. There is no better way to find out a whole lot of information quickly, including: Strengths and weaknesses of the company and […]
Convert Leads to Sales at the Middle of the Funnel
In our last post, we discussed how mastering the top of the funnel (TOFU) is crucial to attracting your prospects to your website and generating leads. Once you’ve generated some leads, you need to nurture, qualify and convert marketing leads into sales qualified opportunities. That’s where the middle of the funnel (MOFU) comes in. MOFU activities […]
Get More Traffic and Leads at the Top of the Funnel
How effective are you at attracting the right kind of visitors to your website and generating qualified leads? You need more than a healthy PPC budget and a website to generate high-quality leads online. You need to become an expert at TOFU marketing. In inbound marketing, the Top of the Funnel (TOFU) is the area […]
Social Media for Business
Next year will be here before we know it bringing with it a new opportunity for engaging your business in the social media sphere. In fact, we’re going to go ahead and say you should make strengthening your social media presence your top New Year’s resolution. We could cite many reasons why your business needs social […]
Keywords Are More Than Just Words in SEO
We know this might be going out on a limb here, but we think Shakespeare might have been wrong. “What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” declared Juliet from the balcony as she pined for her star-crossed lover, Romeo. But when it comes to SEO and keywords, a […]
Improve Inbound Marketing with Video
Improve Inbound Marketing with Video One aspect of the Internet that continues to amaze us is how fast things change online. The emergence of videos as a vital inbound marketing tool is one of those changes that has come along in recent years to wow us. Just a few years ago, putting regular videos up […]