Did you know that a recent Sprout Social research study found when consumers feel connected to brands, more than half of them (57%) said they’d increase their spending with that brand and 76% indicated they’d buy from that brand vs a competitor? And guess what that same research indicated was ...
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Should we be on [insert name of new or hot social network here] or [established social media platform]? This is easily the most common question our digital strategy clients pose to us. And interestingly of late, the question tends to focus on two of the biggest social media platforms – ...
Two of the most important aspects of digital marketing strategy development are understanding consumer behavior and how consumers will respond to your marketing communications materials. Have you ever sat in a conference room and decided which ad, brochure, landing page or website design to approve for production? If you have, ...
While delivering a recent Virtual Selling Workshop, an attendee asked, "What are the best ways to build rapport with customers or sales prospects during a virtual sales call or meeting?" Instantly, many of the attendees agreed they too wanted to understand this very important virtual sales skill. So today, let's ...
As I celebrate another year of Converse Digital not failing, not going belly up or flaming out, I sat back and thought about all of the lessons I learned over the last 12 months and well, here are the five most important ones for your consideration. And if any or ...
There is a dangerous dogma that has infiltrated digital sales and marketing thought. One that if left unchecked, will cause numerous content marketing and lead generation programs to fail. Yet, as you read posts penned by lead generation agencies and lead generation thought leaders, listen to popular podcasts or attend ...
We just released a brand new 15-minute webinar specifically designed for advertising, PR and Digital agencies that want to learn how to combine my Painless Prospecting approach to building a consistent inbound pipeline of highly qualified, self-educated buyers that are pretty sure they want to hire you before you ever ...
Recently I’ve seen a raft of articles trumpeting the death of guest blogging as an effective content marketing strategy. It’s a shame that these authors miss the true value of guest blogging because they’re just focused on the short-term SEO ROI of guest blogging. If they understood the long-term sales ...
On a recent virtual selling webinar we delivered one of the attendees asked “Do you have any suggestions on how to cut through the high-volume message clutter and information overload suffered by potential prospects?” Rather than limit my answer just to that individual, I thought I would share it with ...
This week, the Wall St. Journal proclaimed “Business Travel Won’t Be Taking Off Soon Amid Coronavirus.” In the article, numerous CEO’s remarked they intend to maintain a smaller travel budget, field fewer face-to-face sales calls and in general, continue leveraging the efficiencies of virtual selling for the foreseeable future, if ...
Social Selling and digital sales tools have been steadily becoming more central to successful sales prospecting over the last 10 years. But with the recent Covid-19 outbreak, it seems B2B companies and their customers are speeding up their adoption of digital centric sales prospecting, nurturing an closings. Don't believe me? ...