August, 2003

Issue 2.1

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Featured Story

Why Don't More of Your Prospects Buy?

Insanity: Marketing same way over and over expecting different results

by Linda Kazares, Founder, Face-to-Face Marketing and Hank Stroll, Publisher, InternetVIZ


 

Publisher's Corner

Marketing and sales must create value

There's a new sheriff in town. A fundamental change is taking place in the marketing and sales world. No longer is it enough for marketing and sales to just demonstrate value, you must create value to close the deal. It's called different things by different people - we call it The Edge, and it tightly integrates marketing and sales.

The Edge reaches out for new revenue sources and looks for strategies to attract new customers through one-to-one relationships. It's for marketing and sales professionals who are just plain tired of the same old conference room blah blah blah; executives who are ready to mix old with new; and key players who have the guts to go out on the "Edge."

What is it? Check out the story below - Drive Prospects over The Buying Edge. Don't worry, we've built in safety seat belts.

In other areas: Have fun with our "Match 'em Up" monthly contest to test your branding savvy. Or rather, to test how effective branding is for the companies we talk about. Our cartoon should amuse you, and peer dilemmas will hit home. Participate when you have something to say.

Let us know what you think. Take our survey and be entered to win a PDA in our drawing. Until next time, keep safe and enjoy the process.

Linda Kazares and Hank Stroll, Publishers

Face-to-Face Connect and InternetVIZ

P.S. Feel free to forward this email with the attachment. Share the Edge - what goes around comes around.

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Featured Webinar

"Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!"

17 top CEOs shared their elevator pitches, but few understood them

by Hank Stroll, InternetVIZ


"Do Sales Make the Brand or Does the Brand Make the Sale?"

Solve this chicken or egg puzzle to make sales happen

Click here to register for this free webinar.
 

What Is Your Best Advice?

Last Issue's Dilemma:

Do I have time to train?

I work for a successful event management company that has some really great employees and some that have the potential to be great, but don't have the skill sets to address some of the new business products we're providing.  It seems like we can never get to the training that surely needs to be done.   How can I upgrade their skills while continuing to provide our clients with the same or better level of service? 

- Ted K., Chapel Hill, NC

Click here to read solutions from your peers.
 


Current Dilemma:

Help us resolve our internal channel conflict

"We put up an online catalog last year that hasn't realized the sales we projected.  Responsibility for managing this program is in the marketing department.  Sales has complained since its inception that we're also in channel conflict with their customers. 

What do your readers suggest we do to drive more sales through our online catalog?

- B.J., Chicago, IL
 

Can You Help?

Share your knowledge. You could win a digital camera.

Marketing Maven: Integrate marketing and sales

From Godzilla to Gecko:

The Long, Slow Decline of Novell
by Rick Chapman, "In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters"
 

Is Your Marketing Message in Alignment?

4 steps to integrated marketing that produces results
by Mac McKinley, Marketing Alignment: Breakthrough Strategies for Growth and Profitability
 

Service Marketing: The Relationship Factor

Defying conventional marketing/sales ups revenue 1,888%
by Bruce Hadley - SoftwareCEO.com
 

Sales Sword: Cutting through the noise

Are Your Sales in "Jeopardy?"

As Alex reveals today's categories on the game board, your heart sinks
by Jill Konrath, SellingtoBigCompanies.com
 

What's Selling in America

When customers sniff out the hard sell, they're gone!
by Bill Breen, Fast Company
 

Face-to-Face Connect: Building events that acquire, train and retain customers

Is the Tradeshow Model Broken?

Reinventing the face-to-face marketing medium
by Cathy Chatfield-Taylor, Expo Magazine
 

Is It an Ethics Question?

Customary F2F perks may not square with the new corporate responsibility
by Megan Rowe, Corporate Meetings & Incentives
 

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