This blog is a guest post contributed by Chief Energy Officer and Keynote Speaker Larry Long Jr of LLJR Enterprises. First off all I just want to say thank-you to the team at Vendasta for inviting me to contribute, it’s an honor and a privilege. To share a little bit of background about myself, after…

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Sales professionals put a ton of effort into lead generation. Nurturing leads by marketing, selling and closing customers is the bread and butter. Often, we’re missing out on opportunities by ignoring the customers we already have. There is plenty to gain by marketing to existing customers. In fact, the probability of selling to an existing…

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Getting into the Google Local Pack is the most important thing you can do to help your clients get more phone calls, leads, and customers. 99 percent of the time, the Google Local Pack is in the Top 2 results on Google. The problem is that many businesses aren’t taking advantage of it.  Local business…

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The landscape of ecommerce business expanded in a big way in 2020, forcing small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to either get online or get lost. Suddenly they had to choose from hundreds of thousands of digital solutions in order to make a successful ecommerce move and survive. Janessa Yeomans, the director of vendor management at…

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. Henry Ford Teamwork is a practice that as leaders, collaborators, and colleagues, we all need to focus our time and energy on. 86 percent of employees and executives cite lack of collaboration as the reason for workplace failures.  “You don’t have…

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More than 2 million podcasts and 48 million episodes are currently available online. These are numbers expected to significantly grow in the coming years, thanks largely to podcast investments made by players like Apple and Spotify plus through greater accessibility from smartphones and smart speakers like Amazon Echo. For those thinking about podcast marketing and…

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Business leaders risk watching sales pipelines crumble if they don’t properly invest in their sales development representatives, or the SDR team, warns David Dulany, founder of Tenbound, a company which specializes in this discipline. Despite handling key responsibilities such as prospecting and making first contact with potential buyers, he says SDRs don’t get enough credit…

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Often, so much more can be learned from our missteps than from our successes. It’s a tactic that Chief Energy Officer and Keynote Speaker Larry Long Jr., has used to propel past roadblocks in his career. Larry’s infectious energy and positive attitude, makes it difficult to imagine he’s faced many professional setbacks. In a recent…

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