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Effective Planning Strategies [Part 2]

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Improving Existing Campaigns

By eliminating the efforts that don’t yield the kind of results we are looking for and maximizing the kind of efforts that do, we are able to continuously be in a process of campaign and response improvement. It often happens that CMOs are continuously pushing out new campaigns in an effort to see if something new will stick, but what’s more important to understand is that our existing database and previous efforts are the goldmine – by working with what we already have and improving on it, we are able to perfect our campaign and activities. It is not in new efforts that we see success, but instead in methods that we are continuously striving to improve.

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Effective Planning Strategies [Part 1]

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Developing campaign strategies

A good place to start is by identifying the types of campaigns that will have an impact on your business goals. There are various marketing channels that are used by marketers to reach out to perfect consumers. Either by incorporating more traditional media from direct mail to telemarketing, or social media to webinars – by determining your specific campaign objectives you will be able to monitor and evaluate campaign performance and have a better idea of which campaigns yield the most results.

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Inbound and Outbound Marketing: Finding the Right Mix

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Although online marketing has been proven to be tremendously successful for many small, medium and large-sized companies over the years, this in no way means traditional marketing avenues can be ignored.

The fact of the matter is in order for a company to generate enough demand and move prospects through sales cycles at faster rates; a single marketing method is never quite enough. If you’re looking to enter the online market using a single marketing technique that you have heard someone else achieve success with SEO and organic listings for example, or if you are looking to attend tradeshows a couple of times a year, small (or big) marketing efforts such as these aren’t going to get the job done in terms of executing a successful all-encompassing marketing strategy that incorporates both inbound and traditional outbound marketing methodologies.

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Why You Must Invest in Training When Adopting New Technologies in Your Business

Technologies are only as strong as the people who use them.

“The first time I encountered Salesforce was about 3 years ago when the VP of Sales at my former company purchased licenses for company use. As a key Account Manager working largely on Inside Sales initiatives, I was set to use this technology to track sales cycles and opportunities and fill in information gaps as they pertained to my accounts. My training session lasted for no more than 2 hours but I managed. Some employees, however, who weren’t as tech-savvy (due to age or just unfound inclinations) and eventually found it hard to deal with the various components that came along with the responsibility of building and maintaining a good database.”

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