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Filling the Gap Between Generation and Conversion
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| I had a journalist ask me the other day to define the difference between sales and marketing for the typical entrepreneur. |
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Sales and Marketing - Yin and Yang, or Oil and Water?
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| Have any two areas of business ever been more mixed up and misunderstood than sales and marketing? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve spoken to clients who have complained about their marketing when it was really a sales problem; OR gone on about their no-good lazy sales reps when what they really had was a marketing failure!
So let's first clarify the definition of sales and marketing, then we'll tackle the more interesting topic of their inter-dependence. |
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The definition of branding
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| One of my readers pointed out that they really appreciated the definition of marketing that I use throughout Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing is getting someone who has a need to know, like and trust you. Most small business folks, exposed only to more academic definitions, really seem to appreciate the truthfulness of that characterization.
This same reader (Eddy) also asked then for my definition of branding (as it might relate to marketing)
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How to trust yourself
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| “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” – Golda Meir
Is there a “right” way to live and how do we know when we are successful? Is it based on our personal definition of success or our perception of our local society’s definition? In society there is a definition of success that, in the past, I have grasped to supplement my own limited ideas about what I wanted to do. |
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6 Critical Elements in Creating Successful Web-Marketing Campaigns
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| Marketing can be an extremely frustrating and expensive exercise if we mistakenly view it as merely an advertising function. Any discussion of marketing should be preceded by a definition of exactly what we mean by marketing: marketing is not just sales, or advertising, or promotion, but rather a combination of all these functions plus more. |
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The Top Ten Principles of Great Sales Messaging
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| Sales Messaging – the stated reasons you give prospects to buy from your firm – is the foundation on which all your sales and marketing efforts rest. Sadly, most companies lack a definition for their sales messaging, let alone a methodology for developing and deploying it. The results are millions of dollars in lost revenue, higher sales costs and missed bonuses.
Here is your chance to break from the pack and enhance your competitive advantage. Use these top 10 principles to create a definition for great sales messaging that will enable your company to win more orders, increase market share and improve margins. |
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The Holy Trinity Of Business Mentoring And Coaching
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| Whenever I’m discussing my philosophies on the purpose of hiring a mentor service, I sometimes notice an elephant in the room that no one wants to address: Just what the heck IS a mentor anyway? Sometimes it slips my mind that there isn’t a clear definition of what these types of services are for in business. My own personal definition of a mentor is pretty much the norm for the business world, but should probably be reviewed, regardless. |
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Definition Of Sourcing – Not As Simple As It Sounds
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| The definition of sourcing can be simple and much more complex. The simple definition is “the processes involved in identifying potential vendors, conducting negotiations with them and then signing purchasing agreements with them to provide goods and/or services that meet your company’s procurement needs”. |
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Today’s Definition of Strategic Planning
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| A quick Google search for definitions of strategic planning will yield numerous variations. Often these definitions point to the blatant misunderstanding of what strategic planning truly is. At other times the term is flat out misused. In the end, we find that strategic planning lacks a widely accepted definition. It seems everyone in the field of planning has a different view on the exact definition. Yet, the definitions we most embrace, convey in one form or fashion, that the idea of strategic planning is to build and sustain competitive advantage by defining desired outcomes and creating some sort of go-forward plan to achieve those outcomes.
This article offers a modern definition of corporate strategic planning. |
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Internet Users Hbk - Chapter 2 Our ISA Group’s Definition of a Scam/Fraud
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| Chapter 2. Our ISA Group’s Definition of a Scam/Fraud
In this 2nd Edition, we have decided that to follow our scheme of preparing you to do business online while helping you to understand that Scams are your greatest online business risk. Therefore, we have elevated our definition of a scam to a standalone chapter
One of the reasons for our definition is that even with the vast resources available to us online, the definition of what is a scam, used interchangeable with the word Fraud, is extremely limited, while Scams themselves are rampant. |
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Networking, Working? Or Notworking?
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| The discussion of who is your ideal client and how do you define the right customers for the success of your business is an important topic. One of the specific reasons this definition will have such an impact on the ultimate success of your business is it will begin to drive everything else you do. This definition will help to determine your marketing strategy all the way to how and where you network. |
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