Lorraine joined Boxpilot in July of 2001 as a Director, Client Service. Over the course of her career with Boxpilot Lorraine has been involved in sales and later on working with the sales team to help create marketing content and other support functions.
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Marketing calls it lead generation, sales calls it prospecting. If we call it “lead prospecting” and I promise that you can do a better job,can we agree to work together? Because I have no doubt that combining the strengths of the two teams will: Drive more leads into the revenue funnel Improve the quality of …
As more companies take advantage of new online business opportunities and models, the importance of a segmented communications program to support contract renewals is more critical than ever. With some companies, maintenance agreement and support contract renewals are almost treated as an afterthought, but that is changing. There is simply too much money at stake. …
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As you read this message, sit back and enjoy the knowledge that some of your competitor’s event marketing budgets are simply money flushed down the drain. Why? Because no one is reading their email invitations owing to their complete failure to avoid uninspiring, unmotivating and simply badly written subject lines. But better subject lines are …
I feel like a Traitor. After 20+ years in sales, believing that a rep who couldn’t do their own teleprospecting was a useless as tits on a bull, I’ve recently been forced to concede that for B2B, in this day and age, teleprospecting might be better managed by marketing. This blog recently ran a post …
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Sales will be much better off when they get teleprospecting help from Marketing. Marketing needs to drive higher quality leads and nothing improves lead quality like a telephone conversation. Sales needs to use outbound calling more effectively and nothing warms up that first live connection like a contact who knows who you are and already …
I work in sales. Like anyone else who uses the phone to earn a living I would swear to you up and down that almost no one answers their phone anymore. But, it appears I’m wrong. I just finished looking at a review of almost 20,000 calls that were made this spring to both the …
This is about hidden or ignored problems that are killing your results.. Why is our campaign failing? There are lots of reasons why a marketing campaign can fail to deliver the intended responses from a business audience. But over the last ten years, working with B2B companies on literally hundreds of event registration, lead generation …
Unless Your sales team meets all or most of these conditions Is very junior Has nothing better to do Is only paid by salary Is not held to quotas Is actually a customer service group in disguise Your sales team is about as likely to spend their time conscientiously making your event recruitment or other …
When do you start to promote an event? More specifically, when is “too soon” to promote a free event and how long do you have before your unaided conversion of registrants to attendees bottoms out? A few years ago I was working with a publisher who, in addition to their periodicals also offered webinars as …
No one doubts the importance of personalization in both consumer and business to business marketing. In fact, it seems to me that with the use of event triggered emails and entire nurturing programs that are created to provide just the right content for an individual during their B2B buying journey, our ability to customize content …
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