How to Define and Find Your Ideal Prospect

Keeping the infamous “sales funnel” full is every marketing and salesperson’s challenge. To meet the challenge, many follow the approach that “if you fling enough mud against the wall, some of it has to stick.” Is that the right approach when it comes to filling your...

Why You Must Make Time for Sales and Marketing

I am often asked, “How much time should my company spend on sales when we already have more business than we can handle”? When business is good it’s tempting to skimp on sales and marketing. Companies reason that because they are so busy processing orders, they do not...

Why LinkedIn is the B2B Platform

Let’s start with some facts and figures. LinkedIn has more than 600 million members. B2B marketers report that 80% of their social media leads come from LinkedIn. LinkedIn drives more than 50% of social traffic to B2B sites and is considered the most credible source...

The Personality of Sales

Most everyone has taken some sort of personality assessment – Myers-Briggs, True Colors or perhaps the Personality Strengths Inventory. Recently, I attended a workshop that discussed how to apply DiSC Profiles in a sales and marketing context and I was motivated...

How to Choose the Right Social Media Platforms

Social media is one of the things that business owners seem to struggle with the most. Aside from just finding the time to manage social media accounts, there is often confusion about which platforms to use. Some business owners may even question if they need to use...