If you do a quick search for "sales tips", you'll get more than 1.5 million results. Whoa. It's safe to say there's a wealth of information out there for how to get better at sales, whether you're in sales or not.
CRMs can be amazing tools for salespeople and marketers. But they can also be a huge pain.
It’s all about how you use them.
We see a ton of companies who use their CRMs only to store customer information, and many don’t even do that well. Your CRM shouldn’t be a big messy database that sucks up all your time and gives you an anxiety attack every time you open it.
Building rapport is all about being authentic and human.
By definition, rapport is “a relationship marked by mutual understanding and trust.” Establishing those kinds of relationships is what sales people have been trying to do for years, with varying degrees of success. But in this digital, global world, we can’t rely on the same rapport-building tactics that worked for them just a couple...
Are you sending videos to your prospects? Not those sexy videos that your marketing team or ad agency put together, we’re talking about raw, real videos of you talking on camera.
If you are, you’re way ahead of most salespeople out there – and your commissions probably reflect that. If you’re not, don’t worry. There’s still time to add video to your sales process, but not much. Video isn’t the...
Posted on December 07, 2017
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Tyler Sprunk
Tagged HubSpot, Sales, Video Marketing, Wistia, Sales Tools
What if you had a chance to nearly double your sales? Well, there’s one way you can. According to a recent study cited by Adobe, online shoppers are 1.81 times more likely to buy when they view a demo video.
Now we aren’t saying that you can just throw a video on your website and get twice as many sales, but we do know that the stat above is just one of many that prove the need for video in...
People come to your website for many reasons. Maybe they want to buy from you, they might need help with a product or service they’ve already purchased, or perhaps they’re just browsing. But regardless of why they’re there, you have an opportunity to engage with them and give them a great experience with live chat.
Posted on August 01, 2017
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Tyler Sprunk
When we’re talking about marketing, things can get kind of buzz-wordy. Marketing collateral. Landing pages. Audience personas. Ever feel like you need a guide to walk you through these things?
Introducing the Ultimate Guide to Marketing Collateral. In this article, we take the most common types of marketing collateral and define them - what they are and when to use them. We'll also show you...
Posted on February 14, 2017
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Emma Urbanek
When working on marketing strategy and planning, you inevitably find yourself talking about sales and sales tips. After all, that's what marketing leads to, right?
To provide additional value in this area, we decided to sit down with a national sales expert. Well, actually, we tweeted him a request, and then we skyped the interview. But you get the idea.
When the printer asks you what type of paper you’d like for your business cards, the typical reaction is something like this: “Oh, I don’t know. Something thick that feels nice when you touch it.”
While that doesn’t mean much to the average person, to a printer, this is an entry into the world of papers, weights, and finishes. And this is the kind of thing that lights our fire.