Labcast: Practical Content Marketing: Working Lessons and Real World Tips

Sure, content marketing is great in theory, but how do you develop a program that actually works in the real world?

Practical Content Marketing: Working Lessons and Tips

In this week’s Labcast, OpenView Managing Editor Jonathan Crowe takes listeners inside OpenView’s content factory to explain what it really takes to get a content marketing strategy up and running smoothly.

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Labcast: Are You Ready to Go Global?

In this week’s Labcast, sales and business strategist Dave Brock of Partners in EXCELLENCE sheds light on how to properly incorporate international expansion into your business growth strategy.

Going Global: Incorporating International Expansion into Your Business Growth Strategy

In today’s business world geographical barriers aren’t what they used to be, but that doesn’t mean that international expansion is a business growth strategy to take lightly. Going global presents a myriad of potential pitfalls in addition to opportunities, and only those who plan accordingly will meet with success.

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Labcast: The Problem with the Challenger Sales Model

Game changer or empty hype? In this week’s Labcast, sales and business strategist Dave Brock takes challenger sales to the mat.

The Problem with the Challenger Sales Model

In November 2011, Matt Dixon and Brent Adamson published The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation, the best-selling book based on the premise that sales success isn’t just about building relationships with customers. It’s also about challenging those customers.

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Labcast: Choosing the Right Content Management System

If you’re serious about content it’s imperative that you have a solid content management system in place. But how do you go about picking the absolute best?

Choosing the right content management system

In this week’s Labcast, OpenView’s resident user experience designer Kevin Leary explains what you need to know in order to make an informed decision when it comes to choosing the best CMS for you.

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Labcast: Key Content Marketing Hires. Rob Yoegel on Building and Engaging Your Team

Content strategist Rob Yoegel takes us inside the content marketing team at Monetate and shares his tips for fielding a team built for success.

 content marketing hires

In this week’s Labcast, Rob Yoegel, Content Marketing Director at cloud-based ecommerce platform Monetate (an OpenView portfolio company), sits down with OpenView to discuss the key roles companies looking to build a content marketing team should hire for, and how best to integrate the team into the larger organization.

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Labcast: B2B Marketing Success. Brian Carroll on Lead Generation Part I

In this week’s Labcast, lead generation expert and best-selling author Brian Carroll sits down with OpenView for Part 1 of an in-depth discussion of successful B2B marketing tactics and strategy.

 sales lead generation ideas

In Part 1 of our discussion with Brian Carroll, executive director of Revenue Optimization at MECLABS, Brian offers his insights on the biggest challenges B2B marketers currently face, the best ways to identify effective buyer personas and develop effective value propositions, and the role content should play in an overall B2B marketing strategy.

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Labcast: SEO Strategy for Expansion-Stage Companies

OpenView resident user experience designer Kevin Leary sits down to discuss SEO strategy and what expansion-stage companies can do to establish and scale their online presence.

SEO strategy

In the vast, competitive world of search ranking, what steps should your company be taking to make sure you’re discovered? Should you go it on your own, or reach out to an agency for help?

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Labcast: The New Rules of Online Prospecting. Incorporating Social Media into Your Sales Prospecting Strategy

In this week’s Labcast, sales expert and bestselling author, Kendra Lee, discusses utilizing social media for online prospecting.

online prospecting

Listen in to hear Kendra offer her tips on the best, most productive ways salespeople and marketers can incorporate social media into their sales prospecting efforts, and how they can take advantage of these new avenues to successfully connect with and convert their prospects.

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Labcast: Developing a Sales Business Plan & the Best Compensation Structure for Your Company

In this week’s Labcast, sales management strategist and talent management expert Lee Salz, founder of Sales Architects and CEO of The Revenue Acccelerator explains why sales managers should adopt an “investment philosophy” when it comes to managing their reps.

sales compensation structure

He also explains the importance of developing a solid sales business plan, and the most important questions they should ask themselves before setting a new or first-time compensation structure in place.

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