Business Strategy

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Focus on Marketing Qualified Leads or Sales Qualified Leads?

No one likes to hear “no,” especially if you work in sales. On the enVisioning Success podcast episode, The Power of “No:” Navigating Rejection and Refocusing Efforts, co-hosts Laura and Julia express the frustration of

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The Types of Marketing Needed for Long Sales Cycles

Not every business has immediate sales. With no product or service with an immediate download or delivery, they rely on long sales cycles of their salespeople reaching out, establishing relationships, having multiple meetings, and going

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4 Steps for Marketing and Sales Team Collaboration Success

The effectiveness of your sales and marketing teams is increased if they work together—marketers can better line up leads for the sales team, and salespeople can better dial in target markets. But what if you’re

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3 Solutions to Stop Your Sales and Marketing Disconnect

Marketing and sales were made for each other—literally. Marketing aims to make it easier for your sales team to sell, with everything from lead generation to producing sales themselves. But sometimes, your marketing and sales

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Turning Motivations into Marketing: Understanding Customer Behavior

Finding your ideal customers is more than just exploring demographics—it’s also about understanding customer behavior: what motivations, pain points, and actions can bring them into your sales funnel. In their most recent enVisioning Success podcast

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Are You Marketing to the Right Clients?

In our podcast episode, Risks and Rewards of Business Diversification, Julia and Laura discussed business diversification, both organically by evolving your company and quickly through the use of mergers and acquisitions. An important aspect of

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A Marketer’s Perspective on Mergers & Acquisitions

In our podcast episode, Mergers and Acquisitions: Opportunities and Pitfalls, Julia and Laura discussed the importance of mergers and acquisitions when it comes to business strategy, especially the importance of building trust and rapport with

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Why Strategic Partnerships & Collaboration Grow Your Business

In our podcast episode, Building Strategic Partnerships and Collaborations, Julia and Laura discussed the importance of collaboration in any business, including how to strategically use partnerships to leverage business growth through better connections and efficiencies.

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Better Digital Marketing as a Business Investment

In our first podcast episode, Exploring New Market Frontiers, we discussed how important it is to explore your current and possible markets to grow your business and secure an exit strategy for yourself as a

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How Having No Marketing Department is Costing You

Building a business from the ground up isn’t easy, and it’s easy to overlook a marketing department on your way to the top. But once you hit a plateau, that missing component might be holding

Vision Advertising COO Julia Becker Collins

In the News: Julia Becker Collins on Starting a Business

Last week, Julia Becker Collins was in the news as part of a panel of experts quoted by the Massachusetts Business Network (MBN) in their article “6 Experts Share Advice for Starting a Business.” These