Callbox’s Three-Step Tactic To Success for Marketing Consulting Specialist The Client Industry: Marketing Consulting Location: Singapore Headquarters: Malaysia Campaign Type Event Marketing Campaign Target Criteria Location: Singapore & Malaysia Industries: All industry types and sizes Decision Makers: IT Managers / IT Admin / Helpdesk Managers / Infrastructure Managers Summary The Client is a Marketing Consulting Agency which was founded in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2002. As the Client’s reputation grew in 2007, more industry giants like Bosch, Castrol, DiGi and Disney Channel entrusted them to handle major events which brought them more acclaim in the region. The Challenge The Client’s successes in the past did not leave them overconfident and content with their achievements but rather drove them to set their sights higher with plans for expansion of their services in the Southeast Asia by providing service to multinational IT and software companies. The Solution The Client planned out a trade event for a giant IT firm. The process was easy as counting 1-2-3:
3 Ways to Increase Business Productivity and Management In ASIA Pacific As marketers, we are hard pressed to find the best approaches in acquiringquality B2B sales leads. It’s not always an easy task as it demands a lot in terms of productivity. Unless you want to settle for a mediocre B2B lead generation campaign, increasing your productivity is essential for producing leads with better chances of converting. Bathrooms.com Digital Marketing Manager Adam Cassar has the right productivity “lifehacks” just for you: Page speed checker Need to make your site go faster? Once you’ve installed the plug-in, go to any page on your site and hit F12. Google analytics shortcuts Compared to any other analytics platform I’ve ever used, GA (Google Analytics) tops the list in terms of usability. Instead of spending lots of time switching between tabs in GA to get to the reports you need, use the shortcuts menu. Remember the Milk I have a memory like a goldfish, and yet I have many, many things to keep track of.
Your Guide to a Successful International Social Media Campaign There is no doubt that social media is where many people get all of their news and advertisements. Younger viewers have an even higher rate of social media use than older. Here are some tips for conducting a successful social media campaign across the world: Get the translation right Social media campaigns in multiple languages can be tricky. Create engaging content for your chosen demographic No one wants to read a long-winded sales pitch. Update consistently It is hard for many small businesses to find the time to conduct their own marketing on a regular basis. Send your message across the board It is important to not limit your social media campaign to just one or two platforms. Successful examples of great international campaigns Red Bull is one example of a very successful international social marketing platform. Know your target demographic One of the most important aspects of any marketing campaign is knowing your target demographic.
Let Your Instincts Help In Generating Sales Leads In Singapore When it comes to generating sales leads in Singapore, we are often interested in the numbers, the statistics, of your business prospects. You want to be successful in your B2B lead generation campaign, so you need the facts clear, no doubts or misgivings. However, even the smartest or the most accurate data may not be a good measure for profits. Sometimes, the best business solutions come from what your instincts are telling you. In that case, you must nurture your instincts well. Let it become a useful aid in your decision making. Heed your interests – your instincts are hard-wired to what interests you. As marketers in Singapore, you should also count on your instincts to tell you what to do.
Callbox Revs Up Tax Consulting Firm’s Sales Efforts The Client The Client is an independent property tax consulting firm specializing exclusively in providing taxpayers of commercial, industrial, multi-residential, and special purpose properties with full-range property assessment and tax management services. They have a national reach with 19 offices that handle large sales territories across the United States including New York, California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Texas. The Challenge The Client needed a way to help all their Managing Consultants who head each regional office across the country in bulking up their sales pipeline. The Callbox Solution The Client approached Callbox to conduct an aggressive telemarketing campaign that would fill their calendars with qualified appointments on a daily basis. To meet the Client’s requirements, Callbox decided to assign a personal appointment setter to the Main Specialist for each location. The Results The Client now enjoys:
Top 10 Thought Leaders in Sales and Marketing in Asia Business to business or B2B marketing essentially refers to techniques and strategies used by companies who sell or market their products and/or services to other businesses. However, using traditional sales channels to reach prospective B2B buyers seem difficult. Hence, if you own a B2B business, say in Singapore, for instance, you might find it hard to drive potential clients to take notice of your products and/or services. Two Things That Could Get You Leads Apparently, if you want to succeed in Singapore B2B marketing, you need to make content marketing a part of your strategy. Wikipedia describes a thought leader as “an individual or firm that is recognized as an authority in a specialized field and whose expertise is sought and often rewarded”. Thought Leaders in Asia Here’s a bit of a disclaimer: discussing the top thought leaders in Asia doesn’t necessarily mean that these people are all Asians. 1. Who doesn’t know this guy? Follow Mark Zuckerberg on Twitter 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. #7 Dr.
Marketing Activities you should Outsource to Professionals Some things are better left to experts, especially when the fate of a business is on the line. This is certainly true in the world of marketing. No one is really an expert of everything; each person can only specialize in a handful of fields. When we desperately try to be a “Jack of all trades”, we end up not reaching the maximum potential of our efforts. That’s why we need to understand that there are marketing channels that need external help for them to be truly effective. 1. Effective copy goes far beyond attractive wording. Your copy isn’t something to assign to the team member with an English degree. 2. The quality of the media you produce is directly correlated to the status of your company in the eyes of viewers.Average infographics and videos don’t automatically propel a business into prominence. It’s better to hire out quality pieces, even simple ones, than to create your own lacking pieces of media. 3. Long-form content has the capacity to serve as a flagship of your company.
Quantifying Lead Generation Success for World-Class Data Solutions Provider The Client The Client is a global leader in data backup, data recovery, and archiving solutions. Based in Singapore, it provides expert advice and integrated solutions for reliable and cost-effective data storage management to customers worldwide. The Challenge The Client hired a lead generation provider but needed additional support for other marketing initiatives. Cold call to invite participants to its open house events in AustraliaProfile its database and generate market feedback to improve its sales lead generation campaign After searching and comparing several service providers found on the internet, the Client was impressed by Callbox’s track record in B2B lead generation and immediately penned a deal. The Callbox Solution Callbox set up an outbound telemarketing team to initiate a call-to-invite campaign to be followed by a lead generation/client profiling campaign. The campaign kicked off in October 2011 after email invitations were sent. The Results
Marketing Starter Kit for your Consulting Business in Singapore As per dictionary, consultants are subject matter experts in their field who give professional advice or services. If indeed they were, did they have to seek advice from other experts to start their consulting business? A consulting business, though the name itself may sound perfect and tall, would always have to start from scratch just like any other businesses would. Market Identification Let’s start off with identifying who and what type of customers would be for the business. If you’re an IT consultant then your target customers would be IT firms and professionals but are non-experts. Demographical: business name, contact person, address, industry type, phone numbers, social media info, email, size and annual ROI.Psychological: Purchase behavior, timeframe and decision-making process. Related: How to Get rid of Dead Leads on Your Database? Business Projection What’s your edge over your competitors? Process, Methodology & Tools Skills, Practices and Culture and Philosophy Thought Leadership
The Checklist every B2B Singaporean Company Needs to Hold Smashing Events Preparing for a corporate event entails a lot of investment in terms of time, money and energy. But without a doubt, there’s B2B Singaporean companies are making it their top priority. More than 68% of B2B enterprises worldwide cite events as important and most important. But if we are to consider the high amount of resources involved in preparing for events, organizers will have to know the important tools and techniques needed to increase productivity and (consequently) to improve their events’ impact to the bottom line. A checklist often comes in handy as they can help you make sure your marketing campaign has all the right elements in place. Do you have these in your checklist? 1). 2). 3). 4). #B2b Event Checklist#Singapore Event Checklist
The Proven Ways to Generate Sales Leads for IT Services in Malaysia Getting sales leads for IT services is really just the same as acquiring sales leads in any other market. It all starts with a sales-ready prospect list. In the vast IT field, however, what gives you the edge over your closest competitor is a prospect list built on a solid understanding of the IT industry, as well as its product and service needs. Know the target Market According to a study by the Australian Trade Commission, the Malaysian Information Technology Market has strong growth fundamentals, including low PC penetration, rising incomes, and a high-tech focused national development plan. The market is somewhat fragmented – there is sophisticated metropolitan market in and around the capital, but still very much a developing market in other regions. Striking a Balance between Conventional and Emerging Trends That said, let’s set this straight. 1) Use Only Good/Useful Content Let’s call this the “awareness phase”, when they are just discovering solutions to their problems. Free!
Top Three SEO Tactics To Avoid (Wait, Is SEO Still Relevant Anyway?) Search Engine optimization (SEO) was the buzzword of years long ago, like, 17 years ago. One might think that because it’s been around for so long everyone knows how to leverage it for their personal use and drive hordes of potential sales leads to their website. Although there have been a few successful stories, SEO is still a science of such fluid structure that even now marketers are having difficulty taming it. When it first gained popularity, everyone who was anyone adopted it as an online marketing strategy. SEO is still very much relevant, although is has taken a considerable step backwards to make room for other digital marketing strategies such as social media, email and especially content marketing. Whether you are still using these top 3 detrimental SEO tactics or plan to use them in the future – DON’T: Keyword Stuffing. The moral of this story is that there is no holy grail for lead generation marketing.