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4 Steps for Marketing and Sales Team Collaboration Success

The effectiveness of your sales and marketing teams is increased if they work together—marketers can better line up leads for the sales team, and salespeople can better dial in target markets. But what if you’re having trouble getting your marketing and sales teams to collaborate? These are themes explored in several of the enVisioning Success […]
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Getting Customer Feedback to Improve Your Marketing

How do you tell if your marketing is working? While tracking conversions and sales leads can take you so far, it’s important to hear from customers directly about what is and isn’t working when it comes to marketing. In the enVisioning Success podcast episode, Feedback is Gold: Using Sales Insights to Refine Marketing, co-hosts Laura […]
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Turning Motivations into Marketing: Understanding Customer Behavior

Finding your ideal customers is more than just exploring demographics—it’s also about understanding customer behavior: what motivations, pain points, and actions can bring them into your sales funnel. In their most recent enVisioning Success podcast episode, Beyond Demographics: Crafting Multidimensional Avatars, hosts Laura and Julia explore all that goes into creating a marketing avatar. Today, […]
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The Information Needed to Find and Target Your Business’ Customers

Marketing and sales have a lot in common. The biggest similarity? They both have to find your customers in order to do their jobs. And while inbound marketing can beat cold-calling any day, both need information on who to target. In their most recent enVisioning Success podcast episode, Introducing Avatars: The Heartbeat of Your Business, […]
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Building Multi-Channel Marketing That Actually Works

There are a lot of buzzwords and jargon in the marketing industry, and while on this blog we try to avoid them, explaining them is even better. In the enVisioning Success podcast episode, Integrative Marketing Campaigns: Cohesive Multi-Channel Approaches, co-host Julia and Laura go through the “$50 sentence” of that title to explore multi-faceted marketing […]
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How Often Should I Send Email Marketing Campaigns? Part 1

Whether you’re sending e-newsletters, coupons and discount codes, or other updates and announcements about your company, keeping in touch with your list of email subscribers is important. But you also don’t want to be emailing so often that you’re overwhelming or annoying them. Finding the delicate balance can be difficult. So, if you’re trying to […]