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IQ vs EQ – Which is more important for success in sales and marketing?

Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is one of the markers by which we judge a person’s intellectual aptitude. Emotional Quotient (EQ) is the metric we use to measure a person’s emotional awareness. These characteristics are both valuable in sales and marketing, but which is more important, a high IQ or a high EQ? 

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7 steps to rebuild and re-energise your sales pipeline

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How to plan for your best (and worst) sales months throughout the year

Throughout the year, different sectors have different months which perform better than others. And there are also typically months which perform worse. School holidays, vacations abroad and increased summer activities are often blamed for the decline. But it is important to know when these peaks and troughs appear specifically for your business. That way you […]

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How Can I Use Telemarketing?

  You’ve probably at some point heard someone say the phrase “Cold Calling is Dead”. As a marketing services agency who specialise in telemarketing, you may expect us to disagree. However, you’re in for a shock… we don’t (well not completely!).

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Seven Marketing Activities to Focus on This Summer

  There’s a common belief that the summer months are slower than the rest of the year (except perhaps over Christmas) and so there’s little point focusing on your marketing or making sales. Whether you believe this or not, we’re here to tell you that summer remains as good a time as any to drive […]

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Data management: how to ensure consistent quality

Data has a very short lifespan. The constant flux in modern businesses means that people change positions and jobs frequently, and data like contact details can degrade at a rate as high as 30% per year.

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3 Reasons Your Telemarketing Isn’t Getting Results

So you’ve come around to the idea of telemarketing as a key B2B marketing strategy and invested the necessary resources. You’ve got a team of dedicated telemarketers working around the clock, calling anyone who might even remotely be interested in your product and pitching, pitching, pitching.

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How to use outbound appointment setting to your sales advantage

As much as we’d love to have all our lead requirements produced from inbound enquiries, the reality is that most companies need to include an element of outbound methods to meet their lead generation targets. Appointment making falls snugly into this remit and is an important part of the sales process which should be given […]

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Outdated or indispensable? Why telemarketing isn’t working in your digital strategy

Telemarketing is an often-under-utilised tool in a marketer’s arsenal, with many simply disregarding the value it offers. Regularly reduced to merely cold-calling, telemarketing has largely been misunderstood.

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How can I improve my inbound leads?

  Eloqua, Marketo, Hubspot, Pardot. All immensely powerful tools for marketers. When used properly they have the ability to turn thousands of strangers to visitors and from visitors to leads. Using the potent combination of social media, blogs, landing pages and effective content management these systems have revolutionised not just the way companies market but […]

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The most successful sales pipeline nurture techniques

Wouldn’t it be great if all the prospects you reached out to just said yes? It would probably also be easier if some of them just said no. But the reality is never that black or white and for the majority of B2B sales you will have to deal with grey answers such as “well […]

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Is your marketing strategy “glocally” relevant?

  Glocal? No, that’s not a typo. Glocalisation is defined as:   “A combination of the words “globalisation” and “localisation.” The term is used to describe a product or service that is developed and distributed globally but is also adjusted to accommodate the user or consumer in a local market.”   To better understand this […]

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