April 2017

As a salesperson today, the content of your emails needs to be much tighter and the cadence of your outreach much more sophisticated if you hope to engage with your prospects. Here's how to transform email from a crutch for contacting prospects to a stepladder to meaningful connections.

Customers don’t actually care about features. They care about making progress. While it may not be easy, gaining an appreciation for your customer’s motivations is absolutely worthwhile.

Embedding a mentoring culture into your organization is a feasible way to get more effort and performance out of your salespeople, reduce employee turnover, and ensure your people are constantly engaged and developing.

Content has long been fuel for the marketing machine, but in recent years the demand for it has grown at a compounding rate. Savvy consumers increasingly require personalized, design-driven marketing across a proliferating span of channels before engaging with a brand.

Sellers are producing more content marketing than ever to touch buyers earlier; but, ironically, they are making buyers feel more overwhelmed – and even annoyed – by the overwhelming amount of online content.  To cut through the noise and madness of this process, buyers are turning to their peers for answers. Here's how businesses should respond.

In recent articles, we looked at why an analysis of your ideal customer profile (ICP) and total addressable market (TAM) is foundational to modern sales and marketing initiatives, and also provided a framework for

Understanding your total addressable market ensures you’re targeting every potential customer. But determining your total addressable market (TAM) isn’t as easy as saying “every company in the so-and-so industry.” First, you need to define your ideal customer profile, or ICP. Joe Andrews of InsideView explores in the second of a three-part series.

Account-based marketing (ABM) is red hot today, and for good reason. According to ITSMA, 84 percent of marketers are seeing higher ROI with ABM than other marketing programs. But before you jump on the bandwagon, it’s important to recognize that successful ABM starts by diligently selecting your account and contact targets. In the first of a three-part article series, Joe Andrews of InsideView discusses three things you should know before you launch an account-based marketing program.

Sales and marketing alignment is a hot topic. There’s a growing realization that these two functions must work more closely than ever before to generate revenue and drive growth.