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Sales Lead Management Radio

Interviews executives about best practices in sales and marketing, sales lead management and sales lead generation. It has been broadcast since 2009.

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Creating something beyond the pool of acceptable substitutes

Monday Oct 04, 2021

Creating something beyond the pool of acceptable substitutes

Monday Oct 04, 2021

This is the second part of the interview with Sean Doyle. We brought a couple of points back for context. We hope you take his points to heart regarding hiring a CMO, and the terminology used by Sales and Marketing - do they match? 4 Questions a CEO should know before hiring a CMO: You wouldn't hire your nephew out of high school to run your sales team, why do you do it to run  your marketing team and campaigns?  "Here's another simple litmus test to sales and marketing have a common language, but what does sales call somebody who's at the point of action, they need a proposal. They want to know what it would look like to buy your product or service. What does marketing call that person? Just ask them those questions. If they don't even call a prospect the same thing, you don't have marketing alignment. If they don't understand what marketing alignment is at all, tell them, just Google it and start the journey. 

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Guess what - your prospect doesn‘t care about you.

Wednesday Sep 29, 2021

Guess what - your prospect doesn‘t care about you.

Wednesday Sep 29, 2021

So agencies keep creating awareness and awareness and awareness. It's not helping. Our guest, Sean Doyle's firm helps companies with what has become like breathing and very obvious to some, but not too many companies. The way FitzMartin is better is the application of science. Understanding that this prospect list didn't need more awareness. They needed a reason to consider taking that step to plan. He tells a story about a firm they were helping. They needed to understand why should I maybe contemplate yet one more banker at my door? Why should I do that? So we created the whole campaign around that. They changed the voice, the group that did the, testing. They had this brilliant IP, but they kept talking about themselves. Well, guess what? Your prospect doesn't care about you. So the ad that worked so much that got that $800,000 deal, all it said is, do you want to reduce your workman's comp costs? It actually had nothing to the product has nothing to do with workman's comp the outcome of using the product is lowered workman's comp. And that was the motivator for the buyer. And they got their single largest deal because they talked about what mattered to them. 

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Training for and Playing to Our Strengths to Plow by the Competition

Wednesday Sep 01, 2021

Training for and Playing to Our Strengths to Plow by the Competition

Wednesday Sep 01, 2021

Do you try new skills, and if you aren't great from the start lose interest? Or, do you take it as a challenge to succeed by finding an alternative path? There is no wrong answer here, but you need to know which you do and why. VisionEdge Marketing's President, Laura Patterson gives us a great illustration as she talks about training for triathlons, despite being a weak swimmer.  Here how she applies this to our continuing conversation about changing patterns to break or prevent bad habits. If you missed the first part of this conversation, you can listen here: Changing patterns vs habits, and flipping the script because we can

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Changing patterns vs habits, and flipping the script because we can

Wednesday Aug 25, 2021

Changing patterns vs habits, and flipping the script because we can

Wednesday Aug 25, 2021

In this episode Susan and Laura cover four actionable items to change patterns, versus changing habits. What can you control? Here are four ideas to take control and gain an edge in business and life. This was taken from a recent blog post by today's guest, Laura Patterson, President, VisionEdge Marketing. She and Susan drive through this hard truth list. You either embrace it and expand your effectiveness, or freeze in place with no desire to change your approach. If that's you, you can now choose to mix it up, or be left behind.

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Find someone who has a love affair with numbers and data to set you straight

Tuesday Aug 17, 2021

Find someone who has a love affair with numbers and data to set you straight

Tuesday Aug 17, 2021

Digging into your company's data may seem like a task you can shove to the bottom of the priority list. Perhaps you delegate it to several people once a month to make sense of the numbers and put it into a story recap format with a bullet-point action list. They all use the same numbers, but are they all telling the full, accurate story? If not, you may not take the action that will either fix or continue the path to growth. Today, Susan welcomes Nick Amabile. His love of numbers, puzzle-solving, and detective work culminated at a young age and set him on the path to building DAS42. Founded in 2015, DAS42 is comprised of data analysts, scientists, business professionals, and engineers who provide end-to-end data services—including data strategy, tech stack integrations, application implementation, and enterprise analytics training. From this episode, you'll have a checklist of what you need to do and consider before you hire a temporary or permanent data concierge firm. 

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Storytelling and Social Media a Powerful, and Possibly Dangerous Combination

Tuesday Jun 01, 2021

Storytelling and Social Media a Powerful, and Possibly Dangerous Combination

Tuesday Jun 01, 2021

In Susan and Paul Furiga's penultimate episode in this series, Paul reminds us that for many organizations, the overwhelming volume and variety of social media seems to create one of the biggest storytelling roadblocks imaginable. And, it also creates some of the best opportunities even though social media is a double-edged sword. In this episode, guest Paul Furiga answers the question of what comes first, a story or social media.

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B2B's Story Needs to Be Different from B2C's Story

Wednesday May 26, 2021

B2B's Story Needs to Be Different from B2C's Story

Wednesday May 26, 2021

Paul Furiga tells us to walk the toothpaste aisle of any large grocery store and you'll be confronted by a confusing reality asking yourself the question, "Aren't most of these toothpastes pretty much the same?" In this episode we learn how developing the story behind your story is the true secret sauce to power your business to new heights. But a consumer purchasing something is a completely different experience than an employee purchasing on behalf of the company they work for. The story we tell needs to take that into account and adjust accordingly or there will be a complete miss on addressing the needs of the B2B buyer.

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Will One Bad Thing Bury All The Good You Do?

Wednesday Apr 28, 2021

Will One Bad Thing Bury All The Good You Do?

Wednesday Apr 28, 2021

Here we are tackling chapter six of Paul Furiga's book, Finding Your Capital S Story." You need to know the answers to these questions before you can create your story.  What is your organization's purpose? What is the market demand for what your company does? What competitive position distinguishes you from your competitors? What really sets you apart? Who is your client? It's not everyone. AND where are they?  What communication channels do you use to sell your purpose or unique position?  What is your call to action? Don't leave us flat. 

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When you stray from your archetype your story falls apart

Tuesday Apr 20, 2021

When you stray from your archetype your story falls apart

Tuesday Apr 20, 2021

In this fifth chapter, Paul explores experiences that led him to focus on storytelling for companies as a career and a passion. We're going to dig into the story of his own company, explore the application of the principles that drive your Capital S Story, and meet some common heroes that we're going to refer to as archetypes. Paul Furiga is our guest as we continue the series with him. He says, "In most organizations, you're a Capital S Story and your brand are lonely souls living separate lives inside your organization, and they've probably never been introduced to each other. And your story should drive your brand. They should be connected." Tune in for the episode of Sales Lead Management Radio, "When you stray from your archetype your story falls apart."

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Regularly Adjust Your Company's Story to Stay Relevant and Interesting

Tuesday Apr 13, 2021

Regularly Adjust Your Company's Story to Stay Relevant and Interesting

Tuesday Apr 13, 2021

Susan's guest, Paul Furiga, author of Finding Your Capital S Story, opens this episode telling us, "In the old days before smartphones and Twitter, I would say that a small S story is something you read in the newspaper, and it's in the bottom of the birdcage tomorrow. Now we don't read newspapers that much anymore. What we do is we look at our Twitter feed and then we swipe that story away. So it's the same thing. The point is that the stories that we consume most of the time, don't rise to the level of answering the most important questions about your organization. That's why we created this term called the capital S Story. And the capital S Story is a story above all other stories that answer these questions. Why somebody would buy from you, work for you, invest in you, or partner with you.  These questions get to the very nature and character of your organization. And that's why your capital S Story is a story above all others. Join them for a continuing discussion of why your story drives your brand.

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