The Lead Machine

The Lead Machine
Author: Rich Brooks
Publisher: take flyte publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-01-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780998367408

Are you looking to generate more leads online? Do you want to rank higher at the search engines, engage your audience on social media, and get them to take action at your website? Sometimes getting to the first page on Google or building an audience on Facebook seems incredibly difficult, frustrating, or even impossible. In The Lead Machine, author, digital agency owner, and entrepreneur Rich Brooks breaks down digital marketing into its BARE Essentials: Build, Attract, Retain, and Evaluate. He shows you a step-by-step approach to how you can master SEO, social media, email, and content marketing. How you can improve your website to convert more visitors into customers. How you can stay in touch with prospects even after they've left your site. And how to make sense of your website traffic reports and other analytics so you can continually grow your business.Regardless of your business or industry, the BARE Essentials framework will help you generate more quality leads online, leading to more sales and more business.

Traction

Traction
Author: Gabriel Weinberg
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0698411870

Most startups don’t fail because they can’t build a product. Most startups fail because they can’t get traction. Startup advice tends to be a lot of platitudes repackaged with new buzzwords, but Traction is something else entirely. As Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares learned from their own experiences, building a successful company is hard. For every startup that grows to the point where it can go public or be profitably acquired, hundreds of others sputter and die. Smart entrepreneurs know that the key to success isn’t the originality of your offering, the brilliance of your team, or how much money you raise. It’s how consistently you can grow and acquire new customers (or, for a free service, users). That’s called traction, and it makes everything else easier—fund-raising, hiring, press, partnerships, acquisitions. Talk is cheap, but traction is hard evidence that you’re on the right path. Traction will teach you the nineteen channels you can use to build a customer base, and how to pick the right ones for your business. It draws on inter-views with more than forty successful founders, including Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Alexis Ohanian (reddit), Paul English (Kayak), and Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot). You’ll learn, for example, how to: ·Find and use offline ads and other channels your competitors probably aren’t using ·Get targeted media coverage that will help you reach more customers ·Boost the effectiveness of your email marketing campaigns by automating staggered sets of prompts and updates ·Improve your search engine rankings and advertising through online tools and research Weinberg and Mares know that there’s no one-size-fits-all solution; every startup faces unique challenges and will benefit from a blend of these nineteen traction channels. They offer a three-step framework (called Bullseye) to figure out which ones will work best for your business. But no matter how you apply them, the lessons and examples in Traction will help you create and sustain the growth your business desperately needs.

Wonder Leads

Wonder Leads
Author: Dave Holloway
Publisher: Jolly Funnel Books
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2020-10-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1838117512

Cold calling is a rubbish form of business development. Like most traditional methods of lead generation, it does your business more harm than good.Not only are they regularly miserable activities to engage in, but they are proven to be ineffective, the vast majority of the time. They drain your money, time and resources. Worst of all, they often undermine the very value you want to communicate. There is a better way to generate qualified B2B leads. A method that is nearly twenty times more effective than cold calling yet costs little but time and application. An approach that not only gets results but leaves prospects with a lasting, positive impression of you and your business. Entrepreneur and B2B marketing expert, Dave Holloway can show you how. Wonder Leads is a revolutionary B2B lead generation framework that helps small business owners and business development professionals to start incredible sales conversations. In this easy-to-follow and practical guide, Holloway walks you through the six pillars of his positive methodology. From identifying your ideal prospects to shaping the perfect approach, you’ll learn how to generate incredible leads without sacrificing your integrity. If you have a business that adds positive value to the world, then people deserve to learn about it in the most positive way possible. Wonder Leads will teach you how.

LinkedIn for Business

LinkedIn for Business
Author: Brian Carter
Publisher: Que Publishing
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2012-07-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0133048039

Increase Your LinkedIn Leads, Sales, and Profits: Attract Higher-Quality Leads, Market More Effectively, Boost Your Sales This book delivers a complete system for profiting from LinkedIn. Top social media marketer Brian Carter shows you how to use LinkedIn to supercharge your existing business-to-business marketing, advertising, and sales processes, generate more qualified leads, and build sales in powerful new ways! Through case studies, Carter reveals how innovative businesses of all types are achieving amazing results with LinkedIn and teaches specific, actionable lessons you can apply right now. Whether you’re an advertising expert, content marketer, sales professional, PR pro, B2B executive, or social media specialist, LinkedIn offers you far more power than you may realize--and this book will help you leverage all of it! YOU’LL LEARN HOW TO Identify the fastest, easiest ways to profit from LinkedIn Apply today’s 15 most valuable Internet marketing principles to your LinkedIn presence Network for dollars, with this book’s proven six-step relationship-building process Find hot prospects through quick LinkedIn prospecting and introductions Use LinkedIn as a “passive prospecting platform”: Generate more leads without more work! Attract “mega-leads” through LinkedIn Answers, Events, and Groups Strengthen brand awareness and spread key messages Leverage content marketing (infographics and more) to boost brand awareness and generate more leads Accelerate your sales cycle with LinkedIn Improve your lead funnel and ensure that prospects are qualified before they talk to salespeople Establish efficient weekly LinkedIn marketing routines Optimize LinkedIn ad campaigns to maximize clicks, leads, and sales

The Mom Test

The Mom Test
Author: Rob Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Robfitz Ltd
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2013-10-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1492180742

The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone will lie to you at least a little . As a matter of fact, it's not their responsibility to tell you the truth. It's your responsibility to find it and it's worth doing right . Talking to customers is one of the foundational skills of both Customer Development and Lean Startup. We all know we're supposed to do it, but nobody seems willing to admit that it's easy to screw up and hard to do right. This book is going to show you how customer conversations go wrong and how you can do better.

Fanatical Prospecting

Fanatical Prospecting
Author: Jeb Blount
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119144760

Ditch the failed sales tactics, fill your pipeline, and crush your number With over 500,000 copies sold Fanatical Prospecting gives salespeople, sales leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives a practical, eye-opening guide that clearly explains the why and how behind the most important activity in sales and business development—prospecting. The brutal fact is the number one reason for failure in sales is an empty pipe and the root cause of an empty pipeline is the failure to consistently prospect. By ignoring the muscle of prospecting, many otherwise competent salespeople and sales organizations consistently underperform. Step by step, Jeb Blount outlines his innovative approach to prospecting that works for real people, in the real world, with real prospects. Learn how to keep the pipeline full of qualified opportunities and avoid debilitating sales slumps by leveraging a balanced prospecting methodology across multiple prospecting channels. This book reveals the secrets, techniques, and tips of top earners. You’ll learn: Why the 30-Day Rule is critical for keeping the pipeline full Why understanding the Law of Replacement is the key to avoiding sales slumps How to leverage the Law of Familiarity to reduce prospecting friction and avoid rejection The 5 C’s of Social Selling and how to use them to get prospects to call you How to use the simple 5 Step Telephone Framework to get more appointments fast How to double call backs with a powerful voice mail technique How to leverage the powerful 4 Step Email Prospecting Framework to create emails that compel prospects to respond How to get text working for you with the 7 Step Text Message Prospecting Framework And there is so much more! Fanatical Prospecting is filled with the high-powered strategies, techniques, and tools you need to fill your pipeline with high quality opportunities. In the most comprehensive book ever written about sales prospecting, Jeb Blount reveals the real secret to improving sales productivity and growing your income fast. You’ll gain the power to blow through resistance and objections, gain more appointments, start more sales conversations, and close more sales. Break free from the fear and frustration that is holding you and your team back from effective and consistent prospecting. It's time to get off the feast or famine sales roller-coaster for good!

Social Marketing to the Business Customer

Social Marketing to the Business Customer
Author: Paul Gillin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2010-12-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470939737

The first book devoted entirely to B2B social marketing B2B markets are fundamentally different from consumer markets. Decisions are made on value, not impulse. Buying cycles are complex, often with many stakeholders involved. Relationships and support are critical. Bet-the-business decisions demand discipline, knowledge, and lots of information. This hands-on guide covers topics unique to this segment, including cost justification, prospecting and lead generation, matching tools to the sales funnel, building, B2B search engine optimization, social media monitoring, social media policy development, long-term client relationships, gaining stakeholder support, building a more transparent organization, and what's coming next. Features plentiful examples, case studies, and best practices Focuses on the channels that are most effective for B2B marketers Builds on the authors' more than 30 years of combined experience in the new media/social media space, as well as two previous successful books Leverage the vast business-to-business potential of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and many other social media platforms today with Social Marketing to the Business Customer!

New Sales

New Sales
Author: Mike Weinberg
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814431771

Selected by HubSpot as one of the Top 20 Sales Books of All Time No matter how much repeat business you get from loyal customers, the lifeblood of your business is a constant flow of new accounts. Whether you're a sales rep, sales manager, or a professional services executive, if you are expected to bring in new business, you need a proven formula for prospecting, developing, and closing deals. New Sales. Simplified. is the answer. You'll learn how to: * Identify a strategic, finite, workable list of genuine prospects * Draft a compelling, customer-focused "sales story" * Perfect the proactive telephone call to get face-to-face with more prospects * Use email, voicemail, and social media to your advantage * Overcome-even prevent-every buyer's anti-salesperson reflex * Build rapport, because people buy from people they like and trust * Prepare for and structure a winning sales call * Stop presenting and start dialoguing with buyers * Make time in your calendar for business development activities * And much more Packed with examples and anecdotes, New Sales. Simplified. balances a blunt (and often funny) look at what most salespeople and executives do wrong with an easy-to-follow plan for ramping up new business starting today.

Markup & Profit

Markup & Profit
Author: Michael Stone
Publisher: Craftsman Book Co
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781572180710

In order to succeed in a construction business you have to be able to mark up the price of your jobs to cover overhead expenses and make a decent profit. The problem is how much to mark it up. You don't want to lose jobs because you charge too much, and you don't want to work for free because you've charged too little. If you know how much to mark up you can apply it to your job costs and arrive at the right sales price for your work. This book gives you the background and the calculations necessary to easily figure the markup that is right for your business. Includes a CD-ROM with forms and checklists for your use.