Using LinkedIn and Other Social Sites to Find Decision-Makers – Part I by Aleshia Humphries & Pat Ryan
We know that selling and marketing to Corporate Training and HR is no easy job, and keeping your sales pipeline flowing is essential. In an ongoing effort to locate potential sales opportunities, sales people can get creative, engaging in social networking in hopes of finding leads and generating sales. What could be better than connecting to hundreds, if not thousands, of business professionals for FREE? Management should be happy with these efforts, right? Well — it depends… Many salespeople are looking to various B2B networking websites to find business contacts, interact with...
Read MoreThree Steps to Make 2016 a Blockbuster Year – by Pat Ryan
Can you believe it’s the end of another year? Before planning for 2016, it’s always helpful to review the prior year’s work – determining what worked well and what didn’t: What plans and processes helped move your company toward its goals? What needs to be tweaked? What should be SCRAPPED altogether?? Answers to these questions will begin to inform your plans for 2016. But, if you are marketing to corporate training and HR, you must also answer the following three questions which will be CRITICAL to your company’s success next year. STEP 1: Have you set clear, specific metrics? “If you don’t...
Read MoreThe Peak Performance Marketing Strategy You’ve Never Tried by Pat Ryan
After more than a decade of specializing in marketing to the world of corporate training and human resources, we have formed some definite opinions about how to most effectively prospect to this group. We have found a marketing system that dramatically improves the quantity (and quality) of prospects entering our sales pipeline – and for less money. Yes, better results and less money to achieve top line revenue growth. Better yet, this is not a complicated system. It’s simple and easy for you to duplicate. You need prospects that want and are ready to buy your solution. The key is to be in...
Read MoreFinding Prospects: Mailing, Emailing, or Calling – Which Works BEST? by Pat Ryan
There are many theories about the best way to find prospects. Certainly large advertising campaigns and trade shows can take up a lot of the marketing budget. But, when you need to reach specifically-targeted individuals on a large-scale basis, it really boils down to three options: Mailing them, Emailing them, or Calling them directly The context of this discussion will be from the frame of reference of a company that targets decision maker contacts in corporate training, HR, or talent management. Mentor Tech Group works exclusively with clients marketing and selling to the corporate...
Read MoreThe Truth about the “Big HR Show” by Aleshia Humphries
Trade shows are challenging. I’ve done my share, including the one-person stints where you have to take on all the responsibilities by yourself, like working long shifts over three days at the “big HR show.” (You can substitute “big Training show” and the story will be the same.) But, what’s even more challenging is when the show is over and you go back to your office with a nice big stack of “leads.” As a former Marketing Director for a large training company, I know. I’ve been there, done that…sorted through the “hot”...
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