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Developing a Killer Value Proposition for Your Business

Legend-wait for it-DARY! You know you're awesome. Your customers know you're awesome. Barney Stensin from How I Met Your Mother knows he's awesome. But do your[...]
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7 Powerful Reasons to Learn Social Selling

Social selling may be a topic you’ve thought about but haven’t put the time into truly learning and exploring it. This can be a mistake for your business. Whether[...]
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7 Reasons Why Digital Marketing Fails

Many business executives realize that in today’s environment, they must have an effective digital marketing plan to achieve their business goals. However, many of[...]
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What is Social Selling And Why Does it Matter?

Social media has become an integral part of many people’s lives. It doesn’t matter if you are a teenager or a senior, the majority of people are using social media[...]
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21 Ways Certified Digital Marketers Can Increase ROI

The investment in training your marketing personnel to become more effective Digital Marketers really pays off. It creates ROI in a number of key areas in any[...]
How Certified Digital Marketers Generate Higher Customer Growth | Xcellimark Training

How Certified Digital Marketers Generate Higher Customer Growth

Wondering about the value of having a Digital Marketing Professional on your payroll? According to McKinley Marketing Partners, Digital Marketing was the most[...]
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20 Reasons Executives Must Invest in the Best Digital Marketing Training Now

As an executive, most of your day-to-day tasks are spent planning for the growth and development of your company. In nearly all situations, your goal is to move to[...]
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What Is Digital Marketing - And Why Should I Care?

What is Digital Marketing? Digital marketing is an essential form of educating the world about your products or services. It’s also one of the most misunderstood[...]
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8 Powerful Reasons to Upgrade Your Website Content Management System (CMS) Now

They wanted my assessment on their digital support systems and the framework they are using for their online marketing and publishing.Recently I received a request[...]
Content Marketing

Top 4 Reasons Why Content Creation is a Marketer's Biggest Challenge

I was chatting recently with members of the Orlando HUG (HubSpot User Group) at a workshop that we were having about content marketing. Most people that I talked to[...]
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This is How to Actually Engage with More Sales Prospects

Do you think people make their buying decisions mainly based off logical considerations of product or service features? If you are shaking your head “yes,” and if I[...]
How to Create the Ultimate Competitive Analysis Strategy | Xcellimark Blog

How to Create the Ultimate Competitive Analysis Strategy

Much of your company’s success today, and in the future, will be determined by the effectiveness of your online digital marketing efforts. Therefore, it’s vital that[...]

How to Be Successful by Creating The Best Digital Marketing Strategy

Taking it Back to Where it all Began: 1983 I have been in marketing and sales for the technology industry since 1983. I understand that 34 years date me a bit, but I[...]

Super Bowl Ad Secrets: 6 Principles to Creating The Best Ads

So, what’s more exciting to you: Watching the Super Bowl or, Watching the highly-anticipated-because-they-are-so-outrageously-priced advertisements? Personally, I[...]
Behind the Scenes from Busting 23 of the Most Popular Marketing Myths

Behind the Scenes from Busting 23 of the Most Popular Marketing Myths

“Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response “ - Arthur M. Schlesinger Science and technology… Isn’t that[...]
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How to Crush Your Competition with Epic Blog Content

Let’s be honest. If you’re a marketer, you already know how to blog and probably don’t know what I could possibly say that you don’t already know. I agree.[...]
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The Shockingly Simple Steps to Creating Great Content

Content is King. We've all heard it a million times. If you haven't, I’m honored to be the first one you hear it from. Everyone talks about content. Everyone loves[...]
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Warning: 25 Reasons Your B2B Lead Generation Is Failing (And How To Fix It)

Lead generation is a key part of your company’s marketing and sales efforts in order to grow revenue. Whether your company sells in a B2B market or handles complex[...]
Wait...Why Are We Talking About Our Feelings Now?

Wait...Why Are We Talking About Our Feelings Now?

This is not the type of blog article that I usually write, but it is just as important for successful marketing, sales, B2B relationships, B2C relationships,[...]
Why Doing A Competitive Analysis Is The Best Way To Be Successful

Why Doing A Competitive Analysis Is The Best Way To Be Successful

Have you ever watched a performance of yours and had that overwhelming flush of heat on your face from embarrassment because you thought you did way better than you[...]
How Tp Get Your Prospects To Act Through Powerful CTAs

How To Get Your Prospects To Act Through Powerful CTAs

Ho ho ho, the holidays are here! Everyone is spreading their holiday cheer and anxiously awaiting their favorite day of the season to arrive, whether it's[...]
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How To Market In The 3 Top Tools Where Engineers Research

Recently I was on The Civil Engineering Podcast being interviewed by Anthony Fasano, PE on the topic of marketing for Civil Engineering firms. (Before you stop[...]
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7 Big Marketing Mistakes Engineers Make (& Why You Need To Avoid Them)

You might say that I have a soft spot, in fact a fascination and high respect for engineers. My three daughters would be rolling their eyes at me right now saying[...]

Warning! This Is How To Stop Being Sleazy To Your Sales Prospects

I don't know about you, but a couple of people reading this article might relate to this feeling:
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The 7 Best Ways to Connect with Your Top Sales Leads

Lately, I have been writing about aligning Inbound Sales with Inbound Marketing in order to increase leads, productivity, revenue, and cohesiveness. Last week, I[...]
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