How can improve my education in marketing and sales?

What are some of the best known methods for B2B marketing and sales?

  • We offer innovative & creative services when it comes to brands active online. Have been actively getting clients over past 2.5 years mostly via referrals. We are seeking expansion now and want to target a bigger base of businesses. No particular business domain in mind, but we have most of our work experience for retail / e-commerce / education / travel and a few other b2c businesses. Want to reach out to more brands and improve our conversion rates. Currently our conversion rates are pretty low (from a cold call to a final conversion). Also, the conversion cycle is more than a month which is pretty long. We thus want to improve our in house B2B marketing skills for - - Better conversion rates - Higher value services - Team development or a scalable model for marketing - Best known methods to handle follow ups, non responsive businesses, pricing and negotiation tactics.

  • Answer:

    Have you heard of 'inbound marketing'? It's about putting your knowledge and personality online as a magnet for customers and we (B2B) have very good experiences with it. See link below for an infographic that says it all, but the video is also very clear about the future of 'getting customers': http://mashable.com/2011/10/30/inbound-outbound-marketing/

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Don't go for the sale right away. Focus on providing value and using that to generate leads. Once you have a steady flow of leads coming in, you can focus on connecting with these leads and converting them into business.

Ryan Cote

try to examine this. http://comms4business.com/

Mario Larizabal

I would suggest the following : 1) Make a B2B marketing and sales budget 2) Hire a sales team 3) Brainstorm the sales strategies on your interview processes and the one that fits you most and convinced mostly it would succeed go for it 4) Make risk assessments financially and set a deadline for it That is if you are into delegation

Manos Abou Chabke

Dear friend, i suggest you a b2b marketpalce name by  http://b2bclick.in its very good website for all manufacturer, Traders, Supplier. i am  following this site last 7 month and its featurers are very good, alexa  ranking is growing very fast, product and supplier details in proper  manners. Price offer is very good.

Ramona Singh

Building trust with your prospective customers is the most important step and without that your cash registers would get frozen. The best way to build that trust is to show what you have delivered. Your customer case studies. You have been serving clients for 2.5 years. Narrating an engaging story about your happy customers can go a long way to build that trust and give you a strong leverage when talking to bigger prospective customers.

Shrivats Sridharan

B2B is the huge market. We can't decide this is the good method. Because something would help for someone that one do nothing for other one. It is the competitive marketplace. Leads generation is main focus and need to increase the website traffic. Signup freely in world class B2B portal  http://www.pepagora.com/home and generate your leads

Hussey Ranu

The number of growth hacks you can use for B2B is really huge. Check out http://bit.ly/GHcookbook in there you'll find community created, still growing list of smaller and bigger growth hacks, tips & tricks that may or may not work for you. In Growth Hacking there is no golden rule. You're also welcome to add your own hack to the list ass well! It's created and curated by http://growthrepublic.com, so you can also check their website and twitter.

Piotr Tomczewski

Today client’s expectations and demands are completely different. In the fast moving techno world, people are much busy and updated than ever before. B2B marketing is different from B2C marketing as consumers involved in B2B are business persons. To get strong base inhttp://www.bizbilla.com/ marketing first research and analyze what customers are looking for? What are the difficulties they face in their business? How your service will benefit them? Develop clear understanding on all these requirements and design strategies accordingly. Create strong image by offering reliable and trustworthy services. After knowing the above needs communicate your services to general public through social media, email marketing, online advertising, print ads, tradeshow and content marketing. Similarly you can make use of forum for enhancing your business services by sharing your ideas and get valuable guidance. Answering to the relevant questions in Q&A sites will also promote your brand and help you to get connected with your potential customers. These methods along with regular follow ups and proper responses to inquires will get great prosperous.

Ragavi Roy

Traditional Marketing said we build up brand awareness first,,then brand reputation and finally brand royalty. In Internet era, I believe the right way is to build up brand reputation and royalty in some small mass first. Then using them as base to spreadout. So,  come back to your question, the best marketing is referal marketing.

Peter Yang

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