How to Find New Business Leads for Your Agency

For agencies and marketing firms, creating a new business process can be a real struggle. Many lack a dedicated sales and business development person and even more do not use technology/resources that can effectively help their prospecting and outreach efforts at all.

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How Winmo Addresses Common Sales Pain Points

Like with any kind of sales, the biggest pain point is time. Sales people waste a ton of time doing inefficient prospecting — trying to find the right decision makers, find qualified potential clients, and then try to figure out how to contact them. If you’re spending time prospecting instead of selling, you’re leaving money on the table every single day.

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Winmo Named On Inc5000 List for Fifth Time

Being named to Inc. Magazine’s 5000 Fastest Growing Companies is a big deal when it happens once. When it happens five times, you know you’re doing something right. Read more

VAI Deep Dive: Fabletics

Fabletics, the women’s athleisure brand made famous by its famous co-founder Kate Hudson, has seen some changes over the last year. The brand started purely online, and continues to do most of its business through its website. However, the company is starting to roll out its new strategy, including brick-and-mortar stores, as well as some changes in the marketing department.  Read more

How Agencies and Media Sellers Can Spot New Business Opportunities

We’ve said it before, and we’ll keep saying it: CMO turnover is the strongest signal that changes between a brand and its agencies are coming. It might not be true immediately, and it might not be true in all cases, but most of the time, when a brand’s CMO changes, its agency relationships will follow. Read more

What Not to Do With Your Business Contacts: 10 Sales Mistakes to Avoid

Where’s the introductory paragraph? See point 6.

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Email Hunting Made Easy

Whether you’re prospecting or just trying to get a business email address of a friend, the days of being able to find a business email address directory on a website are long gone. Times have changed and anyone tasked with agency new business outreach — or working as a sales development rep — can tell you business email addresses are precious, and carefully guarded by webmasters and executive gatekeepers. But they’re not impossible to get.

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Advertising, Marketing and Promotions Software

As with most things in life, when it comes to your marketing and advertising software, what you get out depends on what you put in. Knowing what you want to get out of your software platforms is the most effective way to make sure you actually get the software that’s right for you. Read more

Business Development Lead Generation Tips for Your Agency

Effective lead generation takes many forms, depending on what resources you want to apply to it. Here are some agency new business lead generation ideas to keep in mind.

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25 Sales Prospecting Tips for Media Sellers

With so many myths about sales prospecting out there, it can be hard for media sellers to tell the difference between prospecting skills that work and quotes stolen from 80s movies about sales.

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