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Credibility Crisis: 4 Sure-Fire Strategies for Cultivating Consumer Trust

Strategy Driven

From telemarketer calls coming in at dinnertime or, worse, before the alarm sounds in the morning; an endless stream of SPAM e-mails jamming inboxes; and mailboxes overflowing with white mail that proceeds directly to the recycle trash bin, statistics show that consumers can be bombarded with more than 300,000 messages every day.

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10 Key Things to Avoid in B2B Cold Calling

Strategy Driven

The above suggests that telemarketers have some way to go in terms of provision of information from a telemarketing call. Fail to Plan and plan to fail” is a well-used expression and it definitely applies to telemarketing. A telemarketer that just trusts to luck is likely to fail. Don’t Sound like a Telemarketer.

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Essential Online Marketing Tips All Business Owners Must Know

Strategy Driven

Google Analytics can help you measure your website’s performance so you can adjust your marketing strategy as needed. A successful marketing strategy would take advantage of this; drive up your website traffic by making a mobile friendly version of your site. Regularly update your marketing strategy. Photo courtesy of Pexels.

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Finding A Prospect vs. Creating A Prospect

Strategy Driven

People buy something when they cannot resolve a business problem AND they have gotten appropriate buy-in from those folks and departments who will be involved with a new solution (stakeholders – usually unknown to sellers) AND whose buying patterns match a seller’s selling patterns (Remember telemarketing?

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Change management and sales: influencing the buying decision path

Strategy Driven

Sales, marketing automation, and the new telemarketing field, ignore the change management aspect of what buyers must accomplish and instead focus on figuring out how and what and to whom to pitch their solution. I actually developed a pre-sales model that facilitates a buyer’s change management process call Buying Facilitation®.

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

At the highest level, there are three propositions essential to the success of strategy: the value proposition, the profit proposition, and the people proposition. In this sense, the three strategy propositions provide an organizing framework to ensure an organization is taking a holistic approach to the formulation and execution of strategy.

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Marketers, Go Back to Basics

Harvard Business Review

Marketing is changing so fast, it's easy to get our heads turned by new, high-tech developments. But, as a marketing consultant who is putting my own theories to the test as I work to drive sales of my first book , it's become clear to me that many companies have needlessly forsaken some marketing strategies that still have life in them.