Sales and marketing teams in a meeting with a presentation.

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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Personalize Your Communication with Email Marketing Automation

Strong relationships are built on personal connections. Do you want your subscribers to open and interact with your emails? Then you need to engage with them using a personalized approach. Of course, typing customized emails for each individual on your subscriber list is not feasible, which is where email marketing automation comes in handy. This […]
A salesperson building virtual rapport with a prospective client via a video-conferencing app.

Win Sales Remotely by Building Virtual Customer Rapport

Lunches, conferences, and sometimes just a smiling face and a kind demeanor were once ways of sealing the deal with potential sales. Then the pandemic hit, and face-to-face interactions evoked feelings of unease and risk more than companionship. While it’s easy to conduct virtual meetings with familiar clients, forming good first impressions are far more difficult […]
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Applying Testimonials to Your Business’s Marketing Strategy

Long past are the days where a customer’s referral only extended to their immediate social circle. The internet has immortalized our opinions, fully in view of customers researching your business. However, beyond Amazon, Yelp, and other review platforms, there’s another powerful marketing tool that often goes underutilized: testimonials. Testimonials serve as a vote of confidence […]
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Public Speaking: Reinventing the Best Marketing for 2021

When it comes to marketing your business, one of your biggest tools will always be yourself. People buy from people, and the more you can get yourself out there being seen, heard, and engaging with potential customers, the more leads you will find. For many, including myself, this means workshops and speaking engagement. But with […]
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In The News: Keeping the human connection during social distancing

This article originally appeared in the Worcester Business Journal on April 27th, 2020. When I started to write this at the beginning of March, this article was about the need for the genuine human connection that businesses need to maintain with those in their network, from partners to communities. Now, in a world of social […]
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Event Marketing: The Other Half of Event Planning

For many businesses, event management has two major stages: event planning, where the event is designed, budgeted for, and set up; and the event itself. When events underperform (i.e., people don’t show) or the events impact on sales and leads doesn’t pan out, it’s because of a crucial missing third part: event marketing. In this […]