Changing the Game with Digital Engagement, Presented by SAP
Game-changing technology strategies are transformational, exciting and disruptive for a reason. They shake up your status quo. They get you thinking about new ways to scale, compete and grow. They move you in amazing new directions. Join host Bonnie D. Graham as she invites you to take an additional Coffee Break with Game-Changers for our special series on Digital Engagement. We’ll explore the fundamental changes that digital transformation is having on the marketing and sales professions. Our panelists will discuss the implications on the buyer journey, how Digital Engagement impacts an organization in terms of alignment, accountability, and business outcomes, as well as how Digital Engagement changes the dynamic between buyer and seller. Learn how you can become the savvy leader who takes your company across the finish line as you look ahead to the next wave of business innovation. Changing the Game with Digital Engagement broadcasts live on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.
Episodes
December 7, 2021 • 55 mins
The Buzz 1: “The best marketers are constantly looking for new digital marketing trends based on the evolution of technology, and platforms, to identify new opportunities…” (smartinsights.com)
The Buzz 2: “Advances in technology, data, and analytics will soon allow marketers to create much more personal and ‘human’ experiences across moments, channels, and buying stages.” (mckinsey.com)
The Buzz 3: “The digital marketing landscap...
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November 2, 2021 • 55 mins
The Buzz 1: “Recruiting great marketers should be your number one priority.” (Kipp Bodnar, HubSpot CMO)
The Buzz 2: “Marketing’s job is never done. It’s about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.” (Beth Comstock, former GE CMO & Vice Chair)
The Buzz 3: “Just because you are the loudest, doesn't make you right.” (Brian Halligan, HubSpot CEO & Co-Founder)
The Buzz 4: “The best marketing doesn't feel like marke...
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October 5, 2021 • 53 mins
The Buzz 1: “Social media allows big companies to act small again.” (Jay Baer @convince Marketing)
The Buzz 2: “If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.” (Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO)
The Buzz 3: “We don’t have a choice on whether we do social media, the question is how well we do it.” (Erik Qualman, author...
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September 7, 2021 • 55 mins
The Buzz 1: “Automated emails, triggered emails, drip email marketing…phrases often used by people considering a marketing automation system…where there’s email, unfortunately there’s spam… plenty of marketers are willing to cross the line to try to generate more leads … They rent lists full of bad addresses and unqualified prospects…too aggressive with frequency and offers…a desire for a quick and easy return. Acting on that desir...
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August 10, 2021 • 54 mins
The Buzz 1: “A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is -- it is what consumers tell each other it is.” (Scott Cook, Intuit co-founder)
The Buzz 2: “Your brand is the single most important investment you can make in your business.” (Steve Forbes, Forbes magazine editor-in-chief)
The Buzz 3: “A great brand is a story that is never completely told.” (Scott Bedbury, Brandstream CEO)
The Buzz 4: “Whether B2B or B2C…W...
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July 13, 2021 • 54 mins
The Buzz 1: “Today it's not about 'get the traffic' — it's about 'get the targeted and relevant traffic.” (Adam Audette, Chief Knowledge Officer, RKG)
The Buzz 2: “Optimizing your website for real people helps you gain your visitors’ trust, starts building a relationship, and lets you sell products without having to jump on a sales call.” (vwo.com/website-optimization)
A bit of history (Wikipedia.org): Webmasters and content ...
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June 8, 2021 • 56 mins
The Buzz: “’That thing out there…that is no dinosaur,' says Owen in the 2015 action/sci-fi film Jurassic World. Can the same be said about your email marketing strategy?” (mashable.com)
Fifty years ago, in 1971, pioneering American computer programmer Ray Tomlinson implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet. It was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts c...
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May 11, 2021 • 54 mins
The buzz 1: “The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing.” (Tom Fishburne, Founder, Marketoonist).
The buzz 2: “Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.” (Chris Brogan, CEO, Owner Media Group)
The buzz 3: “Companies that speak in the language of the pitch are no longer speaking to anyone.” (The Cluetrain Manifesto, 95 business theses, 1999 – 2000)
For years, sales organizations...
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April 13, 2021 • 55 mins
The buzz 1: “Once a niche aspect of the event industry, virtual events have become an integral part of daily life in the time of COVID-19 — and it looks like these events are here to stay.” www.eventbrite.com/blog/11-virtual-event-ideas
The buzz 2: “Audience engagement is absolutely key to virtual events…it’s very easy for your audience to get distracted when attending your events online.…provide interactive elements so that you...
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March 16, 2021 • 55 mins
The buzz: “If there was one winner in 2020, it was probably video. With everyone online all the time, video became more crucial than ever for marketing and communication.” [biteable.com/blog/video-marketing-statistics]
According to Biteable’s video stats for 2021, 60 percent of businesses use video as a marketing tool, and 14 precent of Marketers create videos every day. That’s a lot of video!
Indeed, video has been the “kin...
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February 16, 2021 • 55 mins
The buzz: “Great customer experience is a major competitive advantage that drives new sales—and it’s predicted to overtake price and product as the primary brand differentiator for B2B sales by 2020… 33% of customers will consider switching brands after just one poor experience.” (getfeedback.com)
The customer journey – mostly online without a salesperson – has become a major puzzle for marketers to analyze. From brand awareness...
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January 19, 2021 • 55 mins
The buzz: “Today, data is hidden all around us, and this begs the question: Is storytelling still important during a time when analytics reign supreme? Great analytics inform your storytelling; they point it in the right direction. But the data won’t do the storytelling for you.” (medium.com/the-mission/the-power-of-storytelling-in-sales-7ac8877475fa)
Storytelling has been around since the start of civilization. It is how people...
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January 5, 2021 • 56 mins
The buzz: “Artificial intelligence is making waves…When marketers use AI with marketing automation, they create a superpower…drawing on everything they know about their consumers to tailor experiences with speed and precision…on a massive scale.” [blog.marketo.com]
Marketers are constantly on the lookout for the next big thing when it comes to the future of the marketing industry. Many are focusing on buzzwords 'Automation' and 'A...
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December 15, 2020 • 56 mins
The buzz: “Artificial intelligence is making waves…When marketers use AI with marketing automation, they create a superpower…drawing on everything they know about their consumers to tailor experiences with speed and precision…on a massive scale.” [blog.marketo.com]
Marketers are constantly on the lookout for the next big thing when it comes to the future of the marketing industry. Many are focusing on buzzwords 'Automation' and ...
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November 17, 2020 • 55 mins
The buzz: “B2B sellers have tremendous success when integrating social into their process…Modern buyers are digital-first buyers…B2B social sellers outperform peers who don’t use social by 72%.” go.forrester.com
How can your sales team drive brand awareness and accelerate your account-based marketing (ABM) strategy to convert top prospects into customers? Leverage their social presence.
Digital selling has become increasingly...
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October 20, 2020 • 55 mins
The buzz: “Sales representatives spend less than a third of their working time actually selling…bogged down by administrative and other ‘non-sales’ tasks.” (HubSpot, business2community.com )
Digital Selling is inefficient and time-consuming when you have to manually research different prospect profiles to fill your lead pipeline, then craft unique messages specially targeted for each.
How to reduce the busy-work? Consider D...
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September 22, 2020 • 56 mins
The buzz: “When I got started in sales, I would create scripts based on what I heard from the best sales reps around me…but… every sales rep I tried to copy was doing something different…I couldn’t close a deal for the first 18 months…then something clicked…I learned how to read a conversation, understand tone and intonation…to build genuine relationships with my prospects. I stopped trying to automate what needs to be personal.” (...
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August 25, 2020 • 56 mins
The buzz: Marketing has always been about connecting with your audience in the right place and at the right time. Today, that means you need to meet them where they are already spending time: on the Internet.” (www.c-tel.eu)
Welcome to digital marketing, where businesses leverage digital channels including search engines, social media, email, and their websites to connect with current and prospective customers.
Some sales pro...
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July 28, 2020 • 55 mins
The buzz: “Digital Selling makes so much sense and seems so easy. Just find useful content, add valuable personal insights, and share it with the right people to build relationships. But creating a repeatable Digital Selling strategy requires more. As Stephen Walsh explains on the Knowledge Enthusiast: In practice, it takes time and focus to build a Digital Selling habit. Finding that content is all about useful content curation. H...
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June 30, 2020 • 55 mins
The buzz: “If you work in sales…you’ve heard the term sales enablement. Although it’s a hot topic, there seems to be some confusion around whether it’s just another vague buzzword or a specific field of practice that’s delivering real benefits to sales organizations…Sales enablement is less about sales and more about the buyer.” blog.topohq.com
“The days of corporate, siloed ownership of prospects and customers are hopefully long ...
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