I have a confession to make. I am one of those small business owners who spend more time working IN the business than ON the business. I've been in business for 9 years and think this has pretty much always been the case. This is okay when we're really busy with client work and emails are coming in daily from prospects. But that isn't always the case, and when things are slow, it's too late to be working ON the business because results don't happen overnight. (more…)
One of the top challenges for inbound marketers is generating quality leads. Not just leads, but leads who are sufficiently knowledgeable about a company and its products that sales representatives can convert them into buying customers. The problem, as noted by Hubspot, is that marketers and salespeople don’t agree on what constitutes a “quality lead”—for example, more than 40% of salespeople report that it’s becoming more difficult to sell to the leads they receive from the marketing team: (more…)
Inbound marketing is still a mystery to many. Marketing strategies for both B2B and B2C companies have changed dramatically over the past decade. Marketers are increasingly understanding the benefits of inbound strategies, like search engine optimization, content marketing and leveraging social media over traditional outbound strategies, like direct mail, telemarketing and print ads. Marketing hasn’t changed because marketers woke up one morning and thought, “let’s try doing things in a different way.” (more…)
