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Three Factors To Accommodate Explosive Business Growth
There’s been a lot written about a company I used to work for that sold for billions of dollars about a decade ago. When I read those articles, the perceptions are often skewed toward the people interviewed and their positions within the company. Now, a decade later, I’d like to share some insights on three factors I believe genuinely stood out that led…
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It’s Time to Turn Your Company Upside Down
When companies describe their management hierarchy, you usually get a pretty cool diagram that ranks employees by who they report to. The ones with the power and the compensation are always listed on top… in order of importance. It’s not a surprise. This puts the customer at the bottom of the hierarchy. Those employees who deal with prospects and customers…
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Facebook’s Latest Features Help SMBs Survive COVID-19
Small-and-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face unprecedented challenges, with 43% of businesses having temporarily closed due to COVID-19. In light of ongoing disruption, tightening budgets, and cautious reopening, companies that serve the SMB community are stepping up to offer support. Facebook Provides Critical Resources For Small Businesses During The Pandemic Facebook recently launched a new free paid online events product for SMBs on its platform –…
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SalesRep.ai: Utilizing Intelligence to Automate Multi-Channel Prospect Interaction
As this video from SalesRep shows, a huge portion of outbound sales time is spent connecting or scheduling to connect with a customer. SalesRep utilizes call automation with an autonomous, natural language processing (NLP) platform to take that effort off of your sales team’s back, enabling them to focus all of their attention on the sale – not the connection.…
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Beacons: Unite Your Social Links and Monetize Your Creator Content
The digital creator economy has evolved far beyond simple content creation. Creators are active across multiple platforms – Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, and more – but most social networks only allow one link in your bio. This limitation makes it challenging to share your full body of work, connect with your audience, and monetize your content effectively. Beacons Beacons is…
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How to Best Connect with Someone on LinkedIn: A Respectful and Effective Guide
LinkedIn remains one of the most powerful tools for professional outreach, yet it’s increasingly clear how you connect matters more than ever. With the deprecation of both bulk import and contact sync features, LinkedIn has moved firmly toward promoting intentional, high-quality networking. For professionals with expansive networks—like mine, which includes over 10,000 connections—I’ve learned that leveraging LinkedIn isn’t about volume.…
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Why Content for SEO?
Great find by good friend Chris Baggott of Compendium. Although we challenge many of the tactics that SEO companies utilize to gain ranking, there are still thousands of queries in search engines every day by people trying to find your product or service. The questions vary… so a few pages of great content just isn’t going to cut it anymore.…
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Will the Buy Button Help Social Media Attribution and ROI?
Buy buttons are the hot new trend in social media, but they aren’t gaining much traction. In fact, an Invesp survey found that social commerce sales made up only 5% of online retail revenue in 2015. Many social sites still struggle to gain customer trust, so platforms will need to prove that they’re more than just socially savvy to win…
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How I Optimized My Featured Images For Social Media And Increased Social Traffic by 30.9%
Late last November, I decided to test out optimizing my featured images for social media to see if it would have any benefit. If you’ve been a reader or subscriber for some time, you know that I’m constantly utilizing my site for my own experiments. Designing a more compelling image that’s shared on social media adds 5 or 10 minutes…
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10 Steps to Build a Better B2B Twitter Strategy
I recently read that Twitter still has twice as many users as does LinkedIn. With the plethora of Twitter apps and integration, the ease with which tweets are amplified is also much much greater. As a B2B Twitter user myself, I’m always working my Twitter strategy to continue to build a following and attract the most relevant audience. Here are…
