7/31/2023 12:34:56 PM Can you shorten your sales cycles by 20%? By Tim Hughes In the world of recessions or down turns we are always looking for an angle in which to make sure we win business. I was reading a report...
7/30/2023 1:15:17 AM Research shows, paid social media lead generation on Facebook and LinkedIn, is terribly inefficient and provides very low ROI By Tim Hughes In this Linkedin post by Chris Walker, he uses data from Metadata.io, see here. It's worth walking through Chris's points and if this...
7/27/2023 1:35:46 PM Do recessions / down turns create bonkers logic? By Tim Hughes 6 months ago we started talking to a company about how we can transform their pipeline and revenue situation. We went through how we can...
7/27/2023 11:33:12 AM If You Listen Your 'Socially Savvy' Customers Will Show You The Way. By Stephen Sumner Pre-Covid keywords and low quality creative on intrusive ad tech fueled paid media was reduced to a $120bn annual fraud ridden commodity...
7/27/2023 11:28:51 AM Why Today's CMO Struggles To Create a Customer Centric Culture. By Stephen Sumner In business the basics always apply, especially in B2C where working back from the customer should help you identify efficiency...
7/27/2023 11:15:34 AM Is Mail Order The New Vinyl? By Stephen Sumner Its no secret that I've been around for sometime helping a number of the UK/US greatest Home Shopping, Retail and SaaS companies to grow....
7/26/2023 2:06:11 PM What tool are you using to get your average 9% acceptance rate for cold outreach using your social selling methodology? By Tim Hughes If you haven't seen we are getting a 9% response with cold outreach, the data for this is below. Getting a 9% response for any form of...
7/26/2023 2:06:28 AM Why you're not being invited in to talk to your customers about strategic subjects .... like AI By Tim Hughes One of the big subjects at the moment in society is AI, (artificial intelligence) as you can imagine, companies are looking to be given a...
7/25/2023 1:28:23 AM Businesses are switching from cold calling to social selling because employees rate purpose and wellbeing as their reasons to stay with a company By Tim Hughes In a recent blog, here, I talked about the mental health benefits of social selling over cold calling. (Before I lose the interest of...
7/24/2023 2:42:47 PM "You're paid to sell not to post" By Tim Hughes A friend of mine is an "influencer" on LinkedIn, whatever he posts on LinkedIn he gets more than 100 likes. For me, the posts are...
7/21/2023 12:43:31 PM Marketing send emails to our target accounts, these are followed up by BDRs and nothing happens … And you're surprised? By Tim Hughes This was what a sales person said to me the other day "Marketing send emails to our target accounts, these are followed up by BDRs and...
7/20/2023 12:58:59 PM Will your posting on social media about a future event help your company? - I doubt it By Tim Hughes I often see people posting on social media about some up and coming event, webinar or conference. The event could be that you are running...
7/19/2023 12:20:53 PM To increase your win rate, research shows your salespeople need to be "trustworthy experts" By Tim Hughes In the new book by Matthew Dixon and Ted McKenna's called the "the jolt effect". They have undertaken research in the area deals which...
7/18/2023 4:47:55 PM Why you need to industrialize your sales efforts on social media By Tim Hughes I was recently in a meeting with a CEO of a business, they had little or no pipeline and had gone down the marketing agency route to try...
7/16/2023 3:49:43 PM How social media helps close deals By Tim Hughes In this article from Everyone Social, it starts off well, afterall the title is "How Social Media Helps Close Deals" And then it all...
7/14/2023 7:05:54 AM 7 ways Artificial intelligence (AI) will impact SEO By Tim Hughes I recently asked Ed Fowler, my co-presenter on our podcast about how SEO (search engine optimization) will be impacted by AI and this was...