How to be Nimble in Microsoft Outlook (Desktop)
In our first Nimble Workplace post, we introduced you to the power of using Nimble within Office 365. Nimble makes it easy to identify the people who can make the...
Social Selling
8 Ways To Follow-up in Sales Without Annoying Your Prospects
You’ve done the primary research on a prospect and it looks like your product is a good fit for their company. The next step you’d take is to get them...
Should a Small Business Hire an In-House Marketer or Outsource Link Building to an Agency?
All businesses want to conduct business in a cost-effective manner. That’s the bottom line (pardon the pun). However, when it comes to developing a marketing plan and outlining business growth,...
Five Ways to Win More Business with Social Selling
The term Social Selling has been around for few years now. What it means can be summarized simply as incorporating social media into the sales process. “With social selling, salespeople...
Common Growing Pains of Fast-Scaling Startups And How to Solve Them
One of the biggest advantages startups have is that they can evolve much quicker than their larger counterparts. However, this kind of flexibility comes with its own set of challenges...
How to Incorporate Social Psychology into Social Selling
Social selling is hot right now. In these days of marketing automation and email overload, the power of a personal relationship or authentic connection cannot be overstated. But social selling...
7 Simple Ways to Increase the Value of Your Marketing Strategy
Would you say that as a marketer your work is valued, or is it considered “valuable” to your organization? Did you just think, “Laura what’s the difference and why does it...
The Winning Recipe to an Engaging Social Selling Strategy
In this webinar, Nimble CEO Jon Ferrara discusses how to use social media to generate revenue to optimize your sales process and create a consistent flow of income for your...
How Brand Mentions Can Boost Your SEO Ranking
You already know that a backlink profile is an important search ranking factor. The more backlinks you get from high authority sites, the higher your rankings will be. You probably...
15 Reasons Your Sales Numbers Don’t Add Up
When I write articles like this I sometimes feel that I may have regressed into my former roles as the whiny sales manager. While there may be some truth to...
CRM Overview Guide: Getting Started in Nimble
Spend less time shuffling through spreadsheets, social sites and 3rd party apps for your contacts and more time engaging with potential customers and partners with Nimble. Nimble is a customer...
Why Your Small Business Needs a CRM
Small business is perhaps the most unstable line of business. As the entrance threshold is low, you risk encountering a number of competitors in almost any niche (unless, of course,...
5 Content Marketing Recycling Strategies You Probably Aren’t Using
The task of developing quality online marketing content to create a successful content marketing strategy in your organization today is by no means a small task. (more…)
CRM Best Practices for Small Business Teams
CRMs shouldn’t be viewed as a four-letter word. (more…)
Why Warm + Cold Calling Make a Winning Combination
Today many unsolicited sales calls go unanswered. Sales managers and modern sales and marketing professionals are up for a bad time against potential customers and savvy buyers who have easy...
How to Calculate the Hard Cost of Starting A Business
If you’re looking to start a new business, you may feel daunted by the prospect of managing all the finances and costs that go with it. Many businesses fail simply...
How to Make An App Go Viral
The majority of the world's population spends an entire lifetime staring at their smartphones. Because of this, applications are becoming a cultural phenomenon. In 2017, annual consumer-spending within the App...
How Jon Ferrara Leveraged Influencer Marketing to Build Nimble
There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them. - Malcolm Gladwell. Some things never go out of style:...
How to Create the Best Content Marketing World Experience
It was 2011 when the first intimate group of 600 shiny-eyed marketers journeyed to downtown Cleveland Ohio. These inaugural conference goers had no idea they were attending what would become...
7 Social Customer Relationship Management Tips for Any Business
The world is seeing rapid change triggered by the fast advancements in technology which also transform passive consumers into active participants. Many companies are no longer investing in creating products...
How Nimble Turbocharges Your Influencer Marketing with Kred
Nimble now integrates with Kred to help you directly identify key influencers in specific communities on social sites like Twitter and Facebook -- all within the Nimble platform. You can...
3 Mistakes To Avoid When Selling on Social Media
I didn’t want to write this blog, but I couldn’t help myself. Too many people still don’t know how to use social media for sales (or seemingly any worthwhile purpose)....
How To Optimize Your Social Selling Strategy
Studies show that 80% of prospective customers decide whether to do business with you largely based on what they see on social media regarding your work community, thought leadership, and...
How To Drive Sales Success With Mentoring Relationships
Mentoring and sales are more intertwined than you might think. Mentoring is a lot more than just “advice over coffee.” Warren Whitlock, social media maven and consultant, defines mentoring as...
60 #MSInspire Thought Leaders You Should Follow in 2018
Microsoft Inspire 2018, co-located for the first time with Microsoft Ready (MSFT’s annual sales, marketing, and technical conference), offers community members more opportunities than ever before to network and cultivate...