Entries by John Stone

I will pretend to sell if you pretend to buy

“I will pretend to sell if you pretend to buy” This is one of my favorite quotes from Sherwin Uretsky, one of our Revenue Architects advisors and one of the top revenue architects that I know! What does it mean? So many people engaged in sales imagine that they can win business after gaining access […]

Social Media for Financial Advisors

I am heading out west to San Diego today to speak at the Charles Schwab Impact 2009 Conference. It should be a great event and I am looking forward to meeting Advisors from around the country and discussing keys to Internet Marketing and social media. One of the top issues Advisors face is navigating the […]

Digital Marketing Strategy Checklist

When setting out to develop an Internet Marketing strategy, you need to connect the dots between a wide range of business,  marketing, technology and project elements. A web strategy today involves a lot more than your web site. In the late 1990s it was very much about defining your branded online presence via the web […]

Fixing the B2B Revenue Engine

With the advent of new media and digital marketing, marketing and sales needs to be joined at the hip. There is a lot of focus now – even more than usual – on sales and the revenue model and how to make it work. With tougher economic times, business leaders are looking with even greater […]