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What makes an inside sales rep tick

What makes an inside sales rep tick

The inside sales force is growing around the world and it is imperative that all businesses think about hiring their own representative. A top inside sales role model will take the reins and drive your business forward.

Marketing Eye looks at the best traits and habits of successful inside sales reps (or ISRs of you are into the whole abbreviation thing).
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Why brand growth requires a smart transmedia approach

Why brand growth requires a smart transmedia approach

I am not a storyteller in the sense that I engage a crowd through great wit and charm. I am no Gatsby and certainly not great. I have friends who command an audience – but that is not in my nature to do so. I like to listen so I can come back to my desk and write stories about what I have heard.

That is not to say that I don’t do public speaking - I am quite reasonable when on topic - but I am a different kind of storyteller: more hack than raconteur and certainly no Peter Ustinov – the greatest raconteur that ever lived. The Fault in our Stars author John Green says it best about many writers, “Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."
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Why you should read Marketing Eye magazine

Why you should read Marketing Eye magazine

Marketing Eye magazine is now complete and will soon hit stands and be available online. It took almost six months to get it publishing ready and was a long hard process, but after losing a bit more hair, it was well worth the hard work.

In creating this issue, I have learnt a great deal about marketing, about the client services sector and about staying the course, even when the Tough Mudder founders seem to have come along and put insurmountable obstacles in my path.*
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How to market sustainability products

How to market sustainability products

The marketer is treating eco brands as ‘brand extensions’ the way Coke treats it’s Zero and Diet products.

But eco, green or ethical products should be treated differently. Coke’s eco plastic bottles still contain a beverage with a long list of health impacts – and people looking for healthy, sustainable alternatives will never have a bottled soft drink.
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Do you have what it takes to drive the growth of an international marketing agency?

We are currently looking for a driven individual to fill an inside sales position in our Atlanta office. This means having an entrepreneurial spirit and a go-getter attitude along with strong communication skills and professionalism.

We need someone who has the passion to make a positive difference in a business and believes in our model of changing the way SMBs do marketing.
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How to rebuild your brand when you've lost sight of your goals

How to rebuild your brand when you've lost sight of your goals

Invention may be the mother of all necessity, but when it comes time reinvention is just as important. 

This blog is partly about Polaroid and what Polaroid means to the generations that lived through the ’60s to the ’90s. It is also about reinvention and how this former brand giant reinvented themselves to become a digital dynamo.
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Not everything is newsworthy. How to get your next media release published

Not everything is newsworthy. How to get your next media release published

Like many companies, Marketing Eye is about to embark on a PR campaign to communicate to the wider audience our expansion plans for the US market. 

With new recruit, Marketing Manager Chanta Waller, having taken up the post in our Atlanta office, we have spent a few minutes brainstorming our media release.

Is it newsworthy enough? Who should it go to? What variations should we do? What are our expected outcomes?
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The 5 steps to a positive mindset

The 5 steps to a positive mindset

Worked across the personal development (PD) space on a range of different industry magazines as I have for some years, I will admit to being a little bit cynical about the hype created by some of its spruikers.

I have a particularly harsh view of the ‘earn a million-dollars-in-a-minute’ personal development coaches who are all bombast and no substance, so when I come across people who offer true value in the PD space I am inclined to listen to them.
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5 entrepreneurs who have inspired generations

5 entrepreneurs who have inspired generations

The sharks' prey was emitting a nervousness thought impossible before they showed themselves. Beads of sweat popping and streaking. Hands raised to wipe their brow.  Vocal chords faltering. Knees buckling under pressure. That's when the sharks go in for the kill.

That’s the basic principle of a number of business-based television shows, Dragon's Den, Shark Tank and Next Den Gen. The Sharks comprise of four entrepreneurs, with a combined wealth of somewhere in the billions of dollars who must judge the business presentations of ‘wanna-be’ entrepreneurs.
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What Jennifer Lopez can teach us all

What Jennifer Lopez can teach us all

I like a good a biography, but to be honest, I wasn't expecting too much from "True Love" by Jennifer Lopez as she isn't exactly my favorite singer/actress/entertainer. 

I don't dislike her, but I feel that she is a bit too stereotypical "famous" for my liking and it has taken away from the talents that she has.

Like all good stories, Jennifer's is a rags to riches tale. In fact, she grew up in the Bronx and now is as far from the Bronx as any one person could be.

I bought her book because it was sitting on the shelf and I had all the other books that I could possibly want to purchase at the airport newsagency already on my shelf. 

I picked it up reluctantly, but was pleasantly surprised as I flicked through page after page. 

What I learned:
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