Author Archives: brianoconn

The Lead Generation Ecosystem

I am delighted to show you “The Internet Marketing Lead Generation Ecosystem” infographic which was created by Straight North, a PPC service company. What I like about it, is that it is designed to show how multiple online marketing channels can be combined to create an integrated Internet lead generation campaign. With this infographic you’llContinue reading “The Lead Generation Ecosystem”

How to create an ideal customer profile (and stop selling to the wrong customers)

If I were to ask you who your ideal customer is, what would you say? When I ask most new founders this question, I usually get an answer like, “Any technology company between 2-200 employees.” I appreciate the optimism, but I have some bad news: When you try and sell to everyone, you end upContinue reading “How to create an ideal customer profile (and stop selling to the wrong customers)”

How to Use Social Media To Promote Your Business

The use of social media is now the most effective way when you need to promote or launch a business or new product. The free access to social networks for prospect identification and the ability to reach a large audience of buyers via content means every marketing or sales leader has to use these channelsContinue reading “How to Use Social Media To Promote Your Business”

A Guide to Content Marketing for Start-ups

How can content marketing help satisfy a start-ups customer acquisition and quest for growth. Old sales tactics are declining and the push sales cycle can mean a new business is out of runway long before their business gets off the ground with revenue. The rapid change in buyer behaviour for both B2B and B2C meansContinue reading “A Guide to Content Marketing for Start-ups”

A Social Selling Guide for Sales Leaders

A social selling strategy starts at the top. If sales management and senior executives are suspicious about social media – if they only see risk, their people wasting time clicking “Like” buttons and employees posting funny pictures, then they would be right to draw down the shutters and, in the process, cut off the opportunityContinue reading “A Social Selling Guide for Sales Leaders”

The What and How of Sales Enablement

Sales enablement is linchpin that a business uses to bridge the gap between their sales strategy and how they execute this on social media, the phone or face to face. In a fast moving digital world, common sales challenges (buyer interactions, longer sales cycles, declining win rates, slowing customer acquisition and shrinking deal sizes )Continue reading “The What and How of Sales Enablement”

Social Selling Influencers

The Bitter Business is delighted to be named in the TOP 100 BRANDS and influencers for Social Selling. The report complied by Onalytica was to identify which Social Selling brands and individuals were leading the online discussion. They analysed 263K+ tweets from 16 November 2015 – 4 February 2016 mentioning the keywords “Social Selling” OR socialselling OR socialsalesContinue reading “Social Selling Influencers”

Connecting Content Marketing to Sales

How to use content marketing for improved sales enablement is a big discussion point among sales and marketing leaders. Most B2B companies rely on selling by direct sales teams to generate a large percentage of their revenues. For these companies, improving sales performance is a critical business objective, and sales enablement alongside the use ofContinue reading “Connecting Content Marketing to Sales”

B2B Sales Techniques for a Digital World

The buyer’s journey is changing sales models and how B2B sales teams sell. Sales 2.0 as a sales technique has been around nearly ten years now but still many companies struggle to embrace it. If you are in B2B sales then Forester projects that over the next four years, 1 million B2B sales people will beContinue reading “B2B Sales Techniques for a Digital World”