by Christopher S Penn | Jul 23, 2020 | Conferences, Marketing, Sales, Strategy
Stephanie asks, “The pandemic has led to the cancellation of many conferences. If in-person events are a cornerstone touchpoint for a brand, how should marketers pivot? What can they do now to drive pipeline activity?” It depends on how you got your...
by Christopher S Penn | Apr 16, 2020 | Marketing, Sales, Strategy
Kate asks, “When you write proposals, do you spell out everything or do you try to keep things simple/streamlined?” It depends on what the proposal is, but we start with a template because otherwise we’ll forget things. Ours are typically 4 parts...
by Christopher S Penn | Apr 8, 2020 | Advertising, Facebook, Marketing, Sales, Strategy
Megan asks, “My company recently had to layoff their canvassing department so now they are trying anything to get leads for virtual consultations for solar sales. Right now they’re aimlessly boosting Facebook posts, and I was hoping to get some insight to...
by Christopher S Penn | Feb 26, 2020 | Data Science, Marketing, Marketing Data Science, Sales
Jackie asks, “How does all this fancy data science kung fu hubbub help us, we’re a traditional sales company that only makes phone sales cold calls?” Data science is a methodology that can be applied to any data you happen to have. In the case of...
by Christopher S Penn | Jan 20, 2020 | Marketing, Sales, Strategy
Mallory asks, “In your honest opinion, what is the difference in marketing and sales?” The short answer: creation of demand versus fulfillment of demand. We see this most in examples where demand exists – sales are effectively order-takers and...
by Christopher S Penn | Nov 20, 2019 | Data, Data Science, Data Visualization, Marketing, Sales
Maria asks, “I need to create a zip code territory map with each area represented by a different color (that I can pick). It will be exported as a graphic file. Are there any free/low cost options for this that are easy to use?” Download all the ZIP codes...