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by Peter Symonds
"Old-fashioned" tactics such as tradeshows are often the most effective for achieving B2B companies' top marketing goal: getting more customers. But far too many spend far too little time on choosing the right sales reps for tradeshows or networking events.
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by Theresa O'Neil
Making the shift from a traditional loyalty program to an engagement-based one? Here are three questions to ask yourself when developing it.
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by Cassie Brown
Events—if done properly—can be a successful technique for marketing and engagement. Here are five tactics you can use to ensure your attendees thoroughly enjoy your events and, in turn, improve ROI.
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by Josh Brown
The impulse to acquire what is scarce is wired deep into the oldest part of our brain, alongside our other survival instincts. Here are four ideas for how to implement the scarcity principle in your favor.
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by Jawad Khan
Although blogging is an effective marketing, branding, and sales channel, businesses don't make effective and efficient use of it. In fact, most corporate blogs add little real business value.
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by Verónica Jarski
The biggest reason online shoppers abandon their shopping carts is lack of trust. Here are some tips for boosting your customers' trust.
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by Ayaz Nanji
B2B salespeople and marketers generally agree about the level of their alignment, according to a recent report from CallidusCloud.
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by Stacy DeBroff
Roses and expensive dinners are becoming a thing of Valentine's Day past, according to a recent survey. So, what are consumers focusing on instead?
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by Peter Prodromou
How much of an influence on sales does social media have? Here's a look at recent findings from the Sloan School of Management and Tsinghua University regarding the power of persuasion via social on buyers.
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by Verónica Jarski
Social data has gone beyond B2C to influence B2B sellers and buyers. Here's a look at how social data enhances B2B lead targeting and guides the buyer's journey.
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by Steven Macdonald
Website conversion rate increases alone don't mean much. Revenue growth is what really matters. This article gives you seven examples (which you can use) that helped the author increase online sales by $21 million.
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by Lee W. Frederiksen
Firms with well-known industry experts and thought leaders are more likely to attract leads, command premium fees, and possess strong, recognized brands. Those "Visible Experts" have these seven traits in common.
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by Ayaz Nanji
Product brochures are both frequently consumed and highly valued by B2B technology buyers, according to a recent report from Eccolo Media.
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by Thomas J. Armitage
Case studies are often dry, generic, or pretty much just a high school pep rally (minus the cool letterman jackets) cheering on the company. But they don't have to be.
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by Diane Berry
Advanced search technology, along with wearable devices, automatic voice interactions, and predictive support technology will mold the future of customer service. Here's what the future might look like.
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by AlexAnndra Ontra
PowerPoint's best attributes often turn it into to a sales or marketing presentation's worst enemy and often resulting in a mind-numbing drill of slide-after-slide-after-slide. So how can you build/host an engaging presentation?
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by Atri Chatterjee
Most businesses now look to social media as a tool mainly for creating brand awareness. To do so, though, is to ignore the real power of social media—as a driver of leads and revenue. Here's how you can get started.
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by Bob Circosta
Words. They can be powerful, passionate, and—if used correctly in marketing and sales communications and presentations—extremely profitable.
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by Verónica Jarski
Here's a look at how Millennials, Generation Xers, and Boomers shop during the holidays.
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by Ayaz Nanji
Some 91% of B2B marketers say they invested some budget in event marketing in 2014, according to a recent report from Regalix.
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by Brian Hoffman
Offering coupons this holiday season? Here's a look at last year's holiday coupon stats and reasons for offering coupons year-round.
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by Ayaz Nanji
B2B buyers consider short, text-based content most useful at the beginning of the sales cycle, and time-intensive content types (videos, detailed guides, etc.) most useful right before making a decision, according to a recent report from Eccolo Media.
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by Yaron Zakai-Or
Companies should re-examine their lead scoring quarterly but often don't because of cost considerations and a lack of focus. Can they regain focus without breaking the bank?
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by Alessandra Ceresa
There is a lot of talk about the death of the sales funnel, but I disagree. The sales funnel is very much alive; it has, however, evolved.
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by Verónica Jarski
More than 100 Dreamforce attendees recently shared their answers to five questions from Wizeline about what sales professionals want from product managers.
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