Michele Nichols

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Photonics West 2017: Inbound Marketing for Optics Companies Q&A

Photonics West brings together more than 20,000 optics and photonics leaders from all over the world. SPIE’s industry track of courses is gaining...

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Define Your Strategic Plan in One Word

A Word to the “Whys” You’re starting 2017 with a whole bunch of New Year’s resolutions for your business, gung-ho about your strategic plan. (Don’t...

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Global Sales Growth: Consider Video for More Meaningful Customer Engagement

Inbound marketing will inevitably expand your company’s geographic reach—the internet is global, after all. It’s important to qualify leads from...

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Creating a B2B Marketing Plan that Works

Elements of a Strong Marketing Strategy In our work over the years, we’ve created many marketing plans and inherited dozens more. Most address the...

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Better Internal Communication Prevents Product Launch Failure

According to a recent study of new product development, 39% of new product launches failed. Often these failures occur when companies don’t have a...

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Building Better Customer Relationships: INBOUND Takeaways Part 2

Last week we reported some of our findings from Hubspot’s INBOUND 2016 conference, including how to succeed using today’s sales model and how to...

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12 Content Marketing & Sales Lessons Learned at HubSpot's INBOUND 2016

It was Michele, Aimee and Mandy’s turn to attend HubSpot’s INBOUND conference this year in Boston. Each year we send part of our team while the rest...

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Effective Marketing for Manufacturers: The New Sales Model

You asked—we answered. Last week, we presented at an event for High Tech Rochester (HTR) and their manufacturing community, and at Optifest,...

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Is Voicemail Dead? Helping Your Sales Team Reach Today’s Customers

How many times have you said “I saw you left a voicemail. Haven’t listened to it, but I’m calling you back.”? I have to admit there are a number of...

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