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Big brands have a following to match – and sometimes it’s a die-hard following.
Many customers and consumers will be drawn to a brand or business that provides fresh, additional content in the form of editorials and publications, in both digital and print form.
"You always need a sales rep" or do you?
A sales rep is an employee of a company who travels around a particular area selling the company's goods to shops, etc. These special folk have been around for a long time.
"The safest job to take".They use to say there is always a job for a sales person. They are essential. However, the word on the street [Forrester research] is that many of them will soon [2020] be out of a job. Not so essential - it appears.
Forrester research says so - do you agree?
By Sylvia Jensen, VP of EMEA marketing, Acquia
Brits love getting a good deal. So much so, in fact, that last year, spending around December time for Christmas dropped by 1.5% because consumers brought forward their spending to Black Friday in November instead.
Traditionally, this time of year proves to be rather lucrative for retailers, as they experience big spikes in sales around Black Friday, Cyber Monday, the Boxing Day sales and the January sales.
Black Friday alone last year accounted for an 8% increase in spending compared with the previous year, with retailer John Lewis describing the event as “one of its most successful days”. [more…]
Marketing and Sales traditionally operate as separate universes. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
By bringing both worlds closer together, Marketing and Sales can share information and insights that will result in customers feeling they are receiving solutions to their challenges and not just another sales pitch. Understanding this requires looking back to see how we got here.
The key motive of marketing is to make followers fall in love with the brand. Creating an effective marketing strategy is nothing but a herculean task. There are clearly numerous strategies to market a brand and the methodology may differ from brand to brand.
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— Will Corry (@slievemore) May 10, 2018
Why conversation holds the key to transforming your omni-channel customer experience … NewVoiceMedia
By Chris Haggis, NewVoiceMedia
Your business serves ultra-connected customers who expect a consistent experience through every channel.
By unifying the shopping experiences across all possible touchpoints, deploying an omni-channel strategy recognises this demand. However, as the number of ways a customer can get in touch continues to increase, some brands are struggling to maintain a positive connection with customers as they move between channels. [more…]
According to Forrester, 30% of CMOs will be let go for not mastering the blended skill set of design and analytics.
In the age of customer, the CMO position has risen in complexity and grown in prominence. The expansion of the CMO role will force a redefinition of the way the marketing function operates and the CMO’s assumption of a larger role as the custodian of the customer experience. [more…]
As we head towards the end of the year, it’s a great time to look back at the B2B businesses trends of 2017 and discuss their impact on all aspects of B2B sales – from lead generation to closing the deal.
- Only 11% of salespeople ask for referrals – in spite of the fact that 91% of customers are open to giving them. (source)
As above, this is a simple sales statistic that highlights a massively underutilised resource in terms of lead generation, and represents a significant opportunity in terms of sales strategy. [more…]
VCCPMedia have released research in conjunction with The Guardian called “Debunking Gen Z”.
It was commissioned to better understand how young people think and feel about the world they find themselves in and how they differ to their millennial predecessors.
Aged 16-24, it is important to understand this group as they make critical decisions about their education, their political beliefs and the future they want to build.
Research reveals next wave of digital sales growth in popular retail categories will be driven by older consumers -
Since the inception of the internet, digital marketing has dominated the marketing domain across the world. 
A lady hurried to the chemist to get medication for her sick child, when she got back to her car she found that she had locked her keys inside.
If you want to avoid being in the twenty per cent of businesses that don’t make it past year one, growth hacking strategies are the way to go.