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The Sales Podcast

Inbound Marketing Is a Team Effort, With Todd Hockenberry

Inbound marketing and selling is not just for the sales and marketing department says Todd Hockenberry. It starts at the top and permeates great companies.

Hosted by Wes Schaeffer  ·  The Sales Whisperer®

How To Build a Great Company With Inbound 

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Inbound Marketing Tips you'll learn today on The Sales Podcast...

  • Help first
  • Treat your customers like people
  • It's a mindset first
  • Support your current customers like crazy!
  • Educate your customers
  • Engagement and sales will grow
  • Apply inbound principles to your new customers
  • Do secret shopping on yourself
  • Focus on your niche, stay in your lane
  • As a leader, you are responsible for growth!
  • You need to know your customers and create an environment for sales and marketing to thrive.
  • Customers want value

  • Be unique
  • Inventors vs. growers vs. maintainers
  • Stop chasing the shiny thing, especially when it comes to tactics
  • Your customers determine your tactics
  • Meet them where they are
  • Test and measure
  • Why are you better?
  • Why do your customers buy from you?
  • It's hard to teach value
  • Know the value you bring to the marketplace, not just features and benefits
  • Elevator pitch
  • Role-playing
  • Great content is strategic
    • It's not just a marketing person's job to create blog posts
    • Most of the sale is done when the prospect calls
    • It's whatever the persona is looking for
    • Blogs are still great, if it's fresh and well-done
    • Video is here to stay including "how-to"
    • Show them how to solve problems with your solutions
  • Relationships are still key
  • Form tight bonds with your clients
  • Rapport does not equal relationship
  • Create great value so your clients find you at the moment of truth

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About Your Host

Wes Schaeffer

Wes Schaeffer — The Sales Whisperer®

Host, The Sales Podcast

Sales trainer, HubSpot expert, and host of The Sales Podcast. Wes interviews the world's top sales professionals, marketers, and entrepreneurs—unscripted and without a filter—to give you tools you can put to work on your next call.

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