Makasha Dorsey over at Solo PR Pro quoted me for a recent article on how to get PR clients up and running quickly. If you haven’t read her posts, you should. There are a ton of great posts for both consulting pros and internal teams.
Are you intimate with your prospects?
Once you’ve segmented your data, scrubbed it and grouped your prospects in your database, your work is not even close to being done. The next step is to personalize your messages to add relevance and engagement.
Sales and marketing can be dangerous business.
One of the biggest challenges sales and marketing teams have faced during the recent economic downturn has been with deals stalling during the later stages of the sales funnel. Based on our research and 20 years of technology marketing experience, we’ve invented “Nurturama,” an innovative process that will help your organization progress and accelerate prospects through the buying cycle.
There’s an interesting opportunity that you may want to explore.
During my time at Accellos and over the last decade, I saw the market for software solutions change dramatically. We’re seeing new competition, new solutions, new buying patterns and most importantly new growth for the first time in years.
That is why I’m posting this today.
Whether you like it or not, social media has opened up your customer support lines to the world at large. If I can’t get your attention, or I just don’t like the way my support was handled, I just have to put my complaint into a 140 character tweet and add your company’s hashtag. If you’re not on Twitter, I’ll create a hashtag for you.
Millions of examples abound.
Here’s how the game is played:
I can now scan my breakfast fruit.
You can scan my business card as well. At the risk of sounding quite shallow, the main reason I added a QR code to my card is because it is a cool conversation piece. I get a lot of comments when I hand them out; however, there are a lot of great reasons to add QR codes to your campaigns and collateral as well.
Here are 10 of my favorite and most compelling ways to use QR codes.
The landscape of public relations and social media changes everyday. We like to think of social media simply as PR 2.0. Unfortunately, social media also means your missteps are amplified and communicated faster than in the days of PR 1.0. Now more than ever, you need an expert to help you navigate your way to success.
Here are some ways we can help you: