Welcome to Sales 2 marketing Blog

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Welcome to all in sales to marketing Blog.

I am very happy to get started with this. I can share more my views on different aspect of sales &  marketing.

I welcome you all in this new venture of mine. Your suggestion, comments are welcome.

With best wishes.

Sales to Marketing Team.

Why Blogging is essential for Business?

With reference to Business Blogging means write blog on relavant topics on product, service offering, pricing etc. Why it is necessary for any business to create Blog? Is it really gives result? What we loose if we dont? Check following fact about blooging.

 The article "Blog Benefits: Traffic, Links, and Indexed Pages" summerises the power of blogging in search Engine.

• 55% more visitors
• 97% more inbound links
• 434% more indexed pages

From above we conclude that we not keep separate from blogging else your competitor will eat your business. So When you starting Blogging? 

Cold calling........unavoidable task in sales?

A famous Professor at Harvard Business School Once asked his students to name the number one reason that business do not succeed. He got all kinds of answers, ranging from bad management and bad programs to bad products, poor concepts, and lack of capital. After reading all their answers he stood before his class and told them that the number one reason businesses fail is ...."Lack of sales"

That's it. Its lack of real sales-the work you and I do on front lines. And if I can't get in the door to see people, I'm not going to sell. In most selling environments, nothing can happen unless you're able to get that first appointment. No matter how well you sell, if you can't get in door, if you cannot get an appointment to see somebody, you're nor going to sell.

To become a successful salesperson, you have to develop a solid base of prospects. This base will only remain solid if you continue to prsopect successfully prospecting. Cold calling is the best and most economical way for you to develop prospects on an ongoing basis.

So are you want to know more about cold calling techniques.........

So what is cold calling? Cold calling is the process of approaching prospective customers or clients, typically via telephone, who were not expecting such an interaction. The word "cold" is used because the person receiving the call is not expecting a call or has not specifically asked to be contacted by a sales person (Source: Wikipedia).

So keep reading this blog to know more about cold calling...........!!!!.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Go beyond status messages.......Google Buzz.

Share updates, photos, videos, and more.  Start conversations about the things you find interesting. With over 100 million gmail users, the backing of Google and over 9 million posts in the first two days I think Google Buzz is here to stay. I’m sure that over time functionality will be enhanced and like with Twitter a plethora of third party applications will be developed. Today I am not writing to debate the pros and cons of Buzz but rather to provide you with the resources to more fully utilize the tool.

Share publicly or privately

Publish your ideas to the world or just to your closest friends.  

Inbox integration

Comments get sent right to your inbox so it's easy to keep the conversation going.

Photo friendly

See thumbnails with each post, and browse full-screen photos from popular sites.

Connect sites you already use

Import your stuff from Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, and Google Reader.

See updates in real time

New posts and comments pop in as they happen. No refresh required.

Just the good stuff

Buzz recommends interesting posts and weeds out ones you're likely to skip.

Buzz from your phone

See buzz around you and tag posts with your location. Point your phone's browser to: buzz.google.com

So when are you starting to use it?    

                                                                              Source : http://www.google.com/buzz

Facebook as a Marketing Tool......

Yes, we can use facebook as a marketing tool. How read following different features provided by facebook.Business can use it all or some for their marketing actvities. Also day by day Facebook users are increasing so you just can't ignore it.

Facebook Public Profile

A Facebook Public Profile is an ideal place for businesses to establish a beachhead within the social network. It is, also, one of the most overlooked.Businesses can set up a Public Profile at no cost.You can send regular updates to fans, and, unlike personal profiles, which are limited to 5,000 members, the number of fans you can have on a Public Profile is unlimited. In addition, you can set up a business page without having to provide a personal profile.

Facebook Events

Another useful Facebook feature, one that can be launched directly from your Facebook Public Profile, is Facebook Events. With it, you can let fans and others know about upcoming events and activities your business will be hosting.

Facebook Groups

Facebook Groups allow you to create or participate in as many as 200 affinity- or geography-based groups. Each can serve as a viral channel for extending your presence within Facebook, and each can be used as "fishing pools" to help you find prospects and build relationships. Facebook Ads

Facebook Ads resemble Google AdSense ads in that they are primarily text based, but they do allow inclusion of a small graphic.

Facebook Apps

One of the first things you'll notice when you begin participating in Facebook is the bevy of widgets (what Facebook refers to as "applications," or "apps" for short). The apps, created by third-party developers, number into the scores of thousands and cover every conceivable category, from games to music to travel to just plain fun (and just plain stupid).

Facebook Lexicon

Lexicon is Facebook's answer to Google's Zeitgeist. It is a tool you can use to spot and compare trends inside the network. In Lexicon, you input single words or two-word combinations and compare as many as five strings per query to mine and analyze millions of Facebook Wall posts.

Facebook Share

Facebook Share is a small button or hyperlink you can add to your website that lets visitors share the site with their friends on Facebook. Essentially, it's a way to drive traffic.

Facebook Connect

Facebook Connect is the next evolution of the Facebook platform. It provides a way for members to log in to other websites using their Facebook account and "connect" their Facebook identity, friends, and privacy settings to those sites.

Personal Profile

In social media, people relate better to other people than to brands. Face(book) it: We like to do business with people we know and trust.An ideal scenario is to have a brand or company presence via the means outlined above, and to supplement and extend that business presence with a personal one.

What benefits can be accrued?

Quite a few: brand awareness, personal engagement with your customers and prospects, a network that allows fans to easily and quickly share your message, and inexpensive advertising to boot. What's not to like?

Reference : "Yes, Facebook Is a Business Tool", by Paul Chaney

What is this Blog about.......????

Hi all,
Sales to marketing is not about how to switch from sales to marketing or sales function is important or Marketing function is more important.
Here I share about changing trends in sales & Marketing i.e from sales to marketing we discuss all here.
Keep following me & suggest new topics where I can share some information, fact or just small talk with you.
You also keep track on twitter for same. Pls. updated thro' http://twitter.com/sales2marketing.
I will bring you many more subjects in this. It is just shearing of knowledge. It is not necessarily all is right or you agree for all my views. So if you think you can improve this blog, pls. suggest same.
All your feedbacks are welcome. you can write me on alternatively on my email gsagar1982@gmail.com ........................Till then stay tune........