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The Proactive M&BD Executive – Culture shock, marketing models, fee-earner engagement, qualifications and social media

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I’m still only a few months in and am still learning every day – but how can I step up in my new role and use the skills I’ve learnt from B2C and apply them within a B2B role effectively? Do you feel there is a lot of crossover between them?” Increasingly, we are working with a P2P (Person-to-Person) model.

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Proactive marketing and business development executives – CRM, internal engagement and career insights

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Four themes in the art of selling – Integrating marketing and sales (kimtasso.com) A creative exercise on engagement generated some interesting metaphors – for example, a brick wall suggesting a lack of communication, a carrot considering motivation and a Leonardo di Caprio shrug suggesting indifference.

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Be more strategic: Top-down or bottom-up, marketing and sales integration and property marketing

Red Star Kim

Many related to the differences in strategy between marketing property advisory services and marketing properties (i.e. Professional services marketing is somewhat different to property marketing. There are also differences in marketing to residential (B2C) and commercial (B2B) real estate buyers.

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5 ways to tell when you should use lead generation or sales prospecting

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It doesn’t matter whether you operate in a B2B or B2C market. The benefits of lead generation include: Low-risk strategy given the small costs involved Find new customers and increase sales Find prospects to continue marketing to Gain insight into your target market segments. Marketing is a form of lead gen.

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