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Nobody likes to be sold. We do not like it when we feel the pressure build and a feeling of manipulation from another. Yet, millions of transactions are done despite this dislike. It largely happens because people are buying. Every day people buy because they want things when they need
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Marketing automation has been growing because marketing in the new economy has changed from a selling process to a buying process. Marketing Automation Software Guide sent me an article on a new acronym, RPM, or Revenue Performance Management. There has been millions of dollars already invested in the shorthand for
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Loopfuse will not generate demand by itself any more than a car will win a NASCAR race without a driver and a team. It is world-class technology which can translate to millions of dollars of revenue for the right team operating and building the right campaigns inside of it. Marketing
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Content marketing is critical for winning new business today. Awareness of your products or services and the required education therein are dependent on buyers finding relevant information. Your content should prepare a buyer for engaging your sales process. Naturally, they will want to delay this until they feel ready. The
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If your offering is not a mass market appeal, then your niche marketing strategy needs to position your brand for a specific, narrow and identified buyer. There are brands that appeal to the mass market. GE light bulbs, Xerox copiers, Dell laptops and the New York Times are focused on
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Your sales process is about you, not about your buyer. How soon did you want to talk to a salesperson on your last major purchase? It was likely much later, not sooner. The reason is that we all know once we engage a salesperson, we are going to be harassed.
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Marketing Automation is the step after you attract a visitor. It is the nurturing which builds trust with a stranger. The temptation and illusion which a traditional salesperson finds difficult to resist is selling too early when the buyer is not ready. Marketing automation helps your buyer become ready for
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Winning today requires an inbound marketing strategy. Let's assume you have stopped the insanity and want to help people buy rather than bug them trying to sell them. Buying works. Selling is desperation. Your products and services are more likely than ever to be bought than sold. Here
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Most products and services are bought not sold. The old strategy of building up a sales team is dying. It is based on the assumption that we need to be sold. Think about the last dozen items you bought. Were you sold? Did the persuasion of a salesperson and their
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There is a pulse to your market. Plugging into the whims and trends of your customer requires an adaptive marketing strategy. The attention economy has us moving along the fast currents of a collective conscience in social media and the blogosphere. To remain relevant requires real-time marketing that continually responds
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It is likely that you are not number one or two in your market. This places you somewhere in the long tail of the curve of opportunity. Your share of the pie may be fewer than the top part of the sales distribution. Aiming to be the hit may be
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Inbound marketing assumes that people do not want to be bothered and that they ignore gimmicks. Buyers want remarkable content which helps them learn for themselves or pass on to others. There's too much good content to allow noise to enter into their buying process. Your Content Lives