These days you hear a lot about SEO, and for good reason. It’s a critical aspect of a business’s online growth and it can shape overall business success. But what does an effective SEO strategy look like? How do you know if it’s working? And what even is SEO? Fear

When your sales team closes a deal with a customer, it’s easy to think that’s the end of this buyer’s journey. The customer purchased what they wanted, and your sales team scored. Everybody wins, right? Time to move on to make a new customer! In reality, sales teams are missing

Inbound Makes Sense For All Your Teams (Including Sales) More than ever, today’s market is customer-driven. A buyer’s market means your sales content has to be generated, designed, and published with your customer at the center. Inbound is an effective approach to attract, engage, and delight your customers and to

As A Business Owner, Why Should You Use Instagram? Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms in the world. It’s engaging, it’s interactive, and it’s where a lot of people spend their time. Think of Instagram as a dynamic billboard located on one of the most widely-trafficked

As a seller, I’ve had the opportunity to experience some fantastic sales training and SKOs (Sales Kick Off meetings) and I’ve also experienced some really terrible ones. The terrible ones stick with me as I think about the tremendous cost per hour to have your sellers all in one room

What Are Keywords? Keywords are the words you and I use every single day as we search on Google, Bing, and other search engines. In most cases, you have a question, and keywords lead you to the answer. A search engine uses your keywords to populate search results that best

Here’s a new approach to the profession of sales. For years, we’ve seen the reputation of sellers slide into a negative, pushy obnoxious stereotype of the “don’t-take-no-always-be-closing” pushers portrayed in movies such as The Wolf of Wallstreet, The Boiler Room, and Glengarry Glen Ross. Personally, it pisses me off that

Customers want two things in a transactional relationship: to get what they paid for and to be treated like a person. Treat your customer like a number on a spreadsheet and that’s exactly how they’ll treat you. Before you know it, they’re out the door and buying from a different

Content marketers and business owners listen up: it’s time to grab that microphone. Podcasts are booming, and there are no signs of them slowing down. Part of our responsibility as marketers is to leverage appropriate channels to communicate our brand message. If you’re not taking advantage of audio, you’re missing

I hear sellers and business owners tell me they “Don’t want to be too pushy” at least 5 times a week. Trust me, if you have to say that, you’ve never been “too pushy”. Many of us have had negative experiences with salespeople that have a bulldozer mentality. They’re not