Social media marketing is the process of building your brand equity and awareness via social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. Social media is all about relationship building, the sooner you start, the sooner you will be able to start growing your audience. One other thing is that your competitors are already involved […]
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The 40 Best Sales Techniques Ever w/ Jonathan Jewett
It’s a pleasure to connect with all of my sales colleagues though the new iSalesman website. By way of introduction, I’ve been selling enterprise software to large companies for more than 20 years. I’ve always been a professional salesman, and like to think I’ve learned a few things along the way. To this end, I’ll […]
Use Owler: Win Business
My company, iSalesman.com provides a very unique Lead to Sales Service. We deploy sophisticated technologies to derive sales leads for our clients and our legion of B2B Sales Agents. As we see advancements in technologies related to identifying and communicating with new Prospects for our client’s, we are amazed by these technologies’ impact on increasing sales performance. […]
The First ROI Calculator—Part Two
If you’d like to skip right to our free ROI calculator, click here. First off let me apologize. I promised I would write the second part of the ROI Calculator Blog series the week after the first one (two weeks ago) but the Holiday spirit overwhelmed me. I am now back in the iSalesman saddle and […]
The iSalesman ROI Calculator—Part One (Pencil Selling)
If you’d like to skip right to our free ROI calculator, click here. Back in the day when I was a junior sales representative for IBM we had to go through some rigorous sales training before we earned the right to call on a client. This included 6 weeks at the Dallas, Texas Sales University and […]
Calculating the True Cost of Marketing
Over a century ago, retailing pioneer John Wanamaker famously said “Half my advertising is wasted, I just don’t know which half.” The same challenge confronts most companies today. But what if you could know exactly which of your lead sources was producing what results and calculate your marketing and sales costs to the penny on […]
Explaining The Sales Cycle
Many companies are less than forthright when discussing the length and makeup of their sales cycle with current and prospective salespeople. They fear that if their salespeople clearly understand just how long it will take before the first commission check hits their bank account – and how many hurdles will have to be jumped along […]
Freeing Salespeople from the Burden of Marketing
Too often, I see companies placing the burden of Marketing on the shoulders of their salespeople, obscuring their true function and diminishing their effectiveness. In The World’s Greatest Sales Team, I imagine a firm which gives salespeople every opportunity to succeed by relieving that burden, allowing their salespeople to do what they do best; sell. […]