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Why telesales is good for your business

Why telesales is good for your business

To achieve business growth, you have to focus not just on new customer acquisition, but also customer retention. Telesales is one of the best ways of doing both. It can help you find and connect with new customers, and keep existing customers by your side. What can...
Do you have a sales plan in place?

Do you have a sales plan in place?

In our previous article, we explored how your business planning and marketing planning go hand in hand. But have you also considered the importance of a sales plan? What is a sales plan? A sales plan is where you set sales targets for your business, and define the...
Being creative isn’t always about designing pretty things

Being creative isn’t always about designing pretty things

As marketeers, one of our credentials is that we’re creative. That can instantly drum up an image of us designing nice things – logos, leaflets, websites – and you’d be right. But being creative, to us, also means (to coin an old-fashioned corporate term) ‘thinking...
How to get your sales and marketing teams working together

How to get your sales and marketing teams working together

A quick search on LinkedIn reveals 14,567 Marketing Directors and 16,215 Sales Directors in Guildford, yet only 9,649 Sales AND Marketing Directors in the same area. So what? In our many years of experience, both in corporate environments and small to medium-sized...
Summer slowdown? Keep your marketing efforts sizzlin’

Summer slowdown? Keep your marketing efforts sizzlin’

We can’t deny summertime is the perfect opportunity to take some time off, go on holiday, enjoy time with family and friends and generally enjoy ourselves. But does that mean your company’s marketing efforts also ‘take a break’? No. Marketing is all about having a...