While artificial intelligence continues to raise alarms with many, I personally believe it will unleash incredible opportunities for sales and marketing teams. Today, much of a marketers time is spent implementing technology solutions, moving data, testing, and analyzing the results of their marketing initiatives in preparation for the next campaign. The promise of ai is that systems can learn from our actions, so technology can optimize itself, data can be moved more effectively, tests can be automatically implemented and results will modify the technology. AI doesn’t replace talent, it will enable our creativity, getting us
Four Common Characteristics With Companies Who Transformed Their Digital Marketing
I recently had the pleasure to join the CRMradio podcast with Paul Peterson from Goldmine, discussing how companies, both small and large, are leveraging digital marketing. You can listen to it here: https://crmradio.podbean.com/mf/play/hebh9j/CRM-080910-Karr-REVISED.mp3 Be sure to subscribe and listen to CRM Radio, they’ve got some amazing guests and informative interviews! Paul was a great host and we walked through quite a few questions, including overall trends I’m seeing, challenges for SMB businesses, mindsets that block transformation, and what role a CRM plays in the success of businesses. Four Common Characteristics of Companies Transforming Their Digital
Sales and Marketing Acronyms
It seems every week, I’m seeing or learning another acronym. Well, time to share them all in one nice post thanks to the team at Blueadz, who made this amazing infographic, 60 Marketing & Sales Acronyms Everyone Needs to Know. Sales Acronyms ABC: Always Be Closing This is the first of the sales acronyms you should learn as a young sales rep! It’s pretty much the way it works. To be an effective sales person means you’ll need to ABC. AE: Account Executive This is a sales team member that closes deals with sales qualified
The Inbound Marketing Checklist: 21 Strategies for Growth
As you can imagine, we get a lot of requests to publish infographics on the MarTech Blog. It’s why we share infographics every week. We also ignore requests when we find infographics that simply show that the company hasn’t made a great investment to build out an infographic of value. When I clicked through on this infographic from Brian Downard, Co-Founder of ELIV8 Business Strategies, I recognized them since we’ve shared other work they’ve done. This infographic; however, is nothing short of perfection! Brian and his team published a new infographic on achieving business growth with
Outook Customer Manager: A Free Contact Manager App for Office 365 Business Premium
A colleague of mine was asking what inexpensive customer relationship manager could she use for her small business. My first question back was what office and email platform was she utilizing to communicate with her prospects and customers and the response was Office 365 and Outlook. Email integration is key to any CRM implementation (one of a number of factors), so understanding what platforms are already being utilized in a company is essential to narrow down the scope of the products you test and/or purchase. Many people don’t realize it, but an Office 365 Business