Four Quick Tips for Creating Buyer Personas
Don’t create too many buyer personas, 3-5 buyer personas should be a good representation of your current and ideal clients. Know whom you are trying to reach then create buyer personas to represent them. If you are, a financial planner and you want to reach parents who are planning to send their kids to college, wealthy households, people who work in higher education. Create a buyer persona for...
June 7th, 2010
Developing Content to Nurture Leads through the Buying Cycle
Are you showing up at all of the stages of your prospects buying cycle? Prospects are increasingly turning to the internet when trying to determine what and from whom to purchase. Marketing content informs, educates, engages and sometimes entertains prospects. Marketing content can also help nurture your leads as they move through the buying cycle from awareness of a problem to the purchase of a solution. Four...
June 4th, 2010
Using Lead Nurturing to Create Relationships, Build Trust and Increase Sales
You designed the perfect marketing campaign, implemented it and the leads are coming in. Your prospects are interested, yippee, so now what? How do you nurture that prospect to become a client? This is where lead nurturing comes into play. Lead nurturing is the relationship that you build with prospects over time by interacting with them in a variety of ways, building trust and leading the prospect...
May 24th, 2010
B2B Sales Leads Success Checklist
You’ve spent a great deal of time, effort and money putting together your business-to-business sales lead generation programs. How you handle B2B sales leads once you get them makes the difference between a happy sales team and new customers or an unhappy sales team and lost sales. Heres a checklist of questions to ask yourself to determine if you have the best chance of being successful with...
January 19th, 2010
B2B Marketing Accountability: 5 Ways To Prove Your B2B Marketing Efforts Are Paying Off
Your boss wants to see evidence that the money and resources invested in the company’s business-to-business marketing activities are really paying off. You start to sweat. Relax. It is surprisingly easy to prove that B2B marketing is contributing to your company’s bottom line. Here’s how. Show the relationship between your marketing and your revenue Start by looking for sales and...
December 2nd, 2009
110 great Business, Marketing, PR, Sales and Writing Blogs
This is a list of 110 great Business, Marketing, PR, Sales and Writing Blogs. If I have missed any, feel free to email me and let me know. These are just some of the blogs that I think are doing a great job of informing and interacting with readers. If I have a blog listed a wrong category, I apologize. If you are still angry, then bite me. Business http://altitudebranding.com http://lgbusinesssolutions.typepad.com/solutions_to_grow_your_bu/ http://brainsonfire.com/blog http://www.chrisbrogan.com http://www.churchofcustomer.com/ http://www.conversationagent.com/ http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com http://freelancefolder.com http://www.ifreelance.com/ 10. ...
September 17th, 2009


![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=65e5e08e-55cb-4875-b9bb-f50fc424743c)

![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=f13325de-9a03-4645-8e20-178cf267c426)

![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=bec7169e-d8d0-4d29-bc4b-144ef6f2da2c)

![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=6440818c-817b-4475-9e7b-a29d94f062d2)


![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=19321c37-3b1d-48d8-833c-595819197dc7)