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Curiosity: A Tool to Defeat the Status Quo and Avoid “No Decision”
June 11 Learning Event: 7:30 am - 9:30 am at the Met
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Most marketers believe that every customer buying cycle ends in one of two ways: your prospects either choose you, or they choose your competition. In reality, however, there
is a third, even scarier, possible result: the prospect chooses no company at all. “No decision” is the fate for up to 60 percent of your qualified leads, and it isn’t because you don’t have a good product – it’s because you haven’t been able to convince your prospects that they need to change from their status quo. How can this be prevented? How can you turn your prospects’ indecision into action? By using a very basic human characteristic – curiosity – to unearth the hidden reasons as to why your prospects need to see that their status quo is unsafe, and then make them realize that the worst thing they could do for their business is, quite simply, to do nothing at all. Join Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Corporate Visions, Inc., and gain practical tips to help prospects see that keeping their status quo is dangerous. You will learn how to: - Defeat the status quo barrier - Develop status quo-busting messages that create urgency for change - Deploy those messages in visual stories - Deliver campaigns and conversations that create more opportunities |
Riesterer is a veteran of the sales and marketing industry with more than 20 years of experience. He is the chief strategy and marketing officer for Corporate Visions, Inc., a leading sales and marketing messaging company that helps B2B companies around the world create more sales opportunities, and ultimately increase their pipeline. He is also a recognized marketing and sales thought leader and two-time author. His books, “Customer Message Management” and “Conversations that Win the Complex Sale,” address how to create market-ready messages and tools that marketers and salespeople can use to tell a compelling story that wins more deals.
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Rock Your Budget: Getting what you need (and even what you want)
July 16 Learning Event: 7:30 am - 9:30 am at the Met
Kara Wallace, Director of
Marketing for Mortenson Company, strangely loves the budgeting process. How could a marketer feel this way about such an unloved part of our jobs? By turning it into a marketing project, of course! |
Now is the time to start thinking about your annual task to eke out a full year’s worth of marketing on a single digit percentage of revenue. What if this year, you could do things differently? Join us in July and learn how to rock your budget!
Kara will share best practices for getting what you need: -Treating your budget like it's a marketing campaign -Building an evidence-based business case (aka metrics, both hard and soft) -Examples of successful marketing budget templates that executives will understand As a bonus to beat the summer slump, Kara will participate in a “Stump the Presenter” portion of the presentation! Bring your best work that you just can’t figure out how to describe in a metric, and see how Kara can make it exec-team ready. Don’t miss this informative and interactive session! Reserve your place today! |
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