Reach your prospects faster by using texting with your CRM
It is no surprise that technology is at our fingertips 24/7 and texting is the preferred method of communication. Here are a few statistics to blow your mind: There are 71 billion smartphone users worldwide The number of monthly texts sent has increased by more than...
Tutorial: Make Your PowerPoint Look Like a Video with the Morph Transition
We have all been using PowerPoint for years. We have used transitions and animations to make our presentations become alive. In this tutorial, we want to show you how to use a transition that is available on Office 365 and PowerPoint 2019. This transition is often...
Drip Campaigns Are Not About You
We have been talking about drip campaigns over the last couple of weeks. If you missed them, you can read why drip campaigns are important and how you can begin a successful customer relationship with your drip campaign’s Welcome email. We have been spending time on...
Tutorial: Using Excel Slices
Earlier this summer, we shared a story of a client who had to make sense of 80,000 rows of sales data. We taught him how to use Excel’s Pivot Table function to summarize and analyze the data. Now that he knows how to use PivotTables, he can create as many tables that...
Four Ways to Begin a Successful Customer Relationship with Your Welcome Email
In our blog two weeks ago, we shared why drip campaigns are important and why you should care. When you receive a lead, it takes roughly 8 follow ups (5 to 12) to nurture the lead and convert it to a customer. If you meet 20 new leads per week over 40 weeks, you will...
Tutorial: Using Excel’s Paste Special Shortcuts to Quickly Share Data Across Documents
Two weeks ago, we showed you how to use Excel’s Paste Special to copy complex items within an Excel spreadsheet. This gives you the control to paste and format data in different ways. If you missed this tutorial, click here to read it. Efficiency and productivity are...
What is a Drip Campaign and Why Should I Care?
When you hear the word drip, you probably think of annoying water drips from a faucet. In sales and marketing, drip is a good thing. A drip campaign is a marketing strategy that sends automated emails or “drips” with pre-written content to customers and prospects over...
CCC Tutorial: Using Excel’s Paste Special to Copy Complex Items
How often do you paste data into an Excel spreadsheet or from one Excel spreadsheet to another? So often that you use command + V without even realizing it. It is second nature. What happens when you need to copy and paste complex items? This is where Paste Special...
Respond Faster and De-Clutter Your Inbox with Outlook Rules – Part Two
Recently, we shared how Microsoft Outlook makes it easy to manage emails and direct specific emails to specific folders enabling you to respond in a timely manner. Rules automate your emails based on criteria. If you missed our newsletter on creating new or custom...
Four Benefits of Using Video in Your Marketing Strategy
Many people love YouTube. Why? Because they can watch almost anything from funny cat videos to instructional car repair videos for specific makes and models. Although funny videos are a nice break from reality, we are going to focus on the benefits of using video in...
5 Questions to Ask About Your Contact Forms If You Want to Increase Lead Conversion Rates
Does your contact form help you land a sale? Your contact form is the bridge between your product and your customer. They like what they see, and they want to continue their buyer’s journey. The next step is contacting you. Have you built a bridge with your contact...
Respond Faster and De-Clutter Your Inbox with Outlook Rules
A salesperson and marketer must manage email effectively, but when the average person receives about 90 emails a day, your email inbox can cause you trouble if you do not manage it well. Accidentally delete or overlook an email and you can lose a client. With so many...