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On Marketing To Small Businesses

There is no doubt about it: Lead generation webinars work and work well … … but after working with hundreds of companies, some spending millions of dollars on generating prospects with their webinars, I am certain your webinars — and the lead generation campaigns they are part of — aren’t working as well as they ...

(Quick note before we start – I originally wrote this in a response to a question I got from a large corporate client trying to market to small business owners. My comments also apply completely to smaller consulting firms and professional practices.) Talk to a small business owner and they’ll tell you that the big ...

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July 15 On Teleseminar & Webinar Marketing

Over the last two months I have been consulting with two large companies looking to generate more leads using webinar marketing. This idea — doing a webinar to generate leads for b2b marketing and sales — is nothing new, of course. But just because everyone is doing it, doesn’t mean everyone is doing it well. ...

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Still cold calling for B2B lead generation?

April 15 On Marketing To Small Businesses

When I write about touchy subjects, I get angry E-mails. In July of 2004, I wrote that b2b marketers and salespeople that rely on cold calling are like functional drunks. They don’t grow fully because of it … in the back of their mind they know it is bad for them … yet they manage ...

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Job #1 when marketing to small businesses

August 28 On Entrepreneurship

Three professional service businesses with the same marketing problem, only they don’t know it: An accountant offers an amazing tax planning service for fast-growth start-up businesses … and FAILS. A marketing “expert” has a system to increase repeat sales … and CAN’T GET A SINGLE CLIENT. A web design firm knows they can build web ...

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Client Education: The Missing Key to Growing Small Business Profits

June 21 On Marketing To Small Businesses

Client Education: The Missing Key to Growing Small Business Profits Note: This was originally written for a computer reseller and consulting newsletter, so you’ll see reference to technology and VARs throughout. Don’t let it stop you from reading. The information inside is valid for any and every kind of small business — retail, b2b, even ...

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Selling consulting services at premium prices

June 20 On Entrepreneurship

Recently, a friend and business associate paid $4,700 to an I.T. consultant and computer reseller. So what, you say? It’s interesting because it was the highest bid he received for the solution, and the next closest bid, from a professional and capable company, was $3,500, over $1,000 less! Why did my friend, Tom, choose the ...

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Being Good At B2B Cold Calling Is Like Being A Functional Drunk

July 20 On Marketing To Small Businesses

At a gathering recently I spoke with a b2b service professional who made the bulk of his living by cold calling. By all accounts, he is successful. (Then again, I’ve found the people who talk most about the money they have usually have the least; and a car they can’t afford. So who knows…) Anyway, ...

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Dell Marketing Strategies

May 4 On Entrepreneurship

This is one of my favorite stories to tell technology consulting and computer consulting businesses who want to market more effectively. It’s a mainstay in my seminars because it illustrates such a critical marketing point — one every business should be reminded of. Frequently. I have included a transcription here, and I believe you’ll enjoy ...

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Cold Calling Sucks! (For computer consulting businesses and everyone else, too.)

May 3 On Entrepreneurship

Yes, yes, yes… cold calling does thoroughly and completely suck! I wrote “Cold Calling Sucks! Why I hate cold calling, and why every computer consulting business should hate cold calling, too!” as a response to a subscriber of one of my newsletters. Even though it was written for computer consulting businesses, it applies to just ...

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