Your LinkedIn Experience Section Isn’t Your Job Description

It’s your highlight reel of results. Too many LinkedIn profiles read like laundry lists full of responsibilities:

• “Managed a team”
• “Oversaw projects”
• "Handled client accounts”

Here’s the deal: nobody’s searching for someone who jus...

 Target Influencers on LinkedIn with a Commenting Strategy to Build Audience

Struggling to cut through the noise and be heard on LinkedIn? Imagine having industry leaders who your ideal audience follows amplify your voice, bringing your content straight to your ideal audience. That's the power of a...

A niche strategy can have a dramatic impact on the growth of your ERP/CRM practice.

Every week, I talk with ERP/CRM partners about the need to focus on a niche.

Any small business will benefit from targeting niches, and this is especially true for partners. But most of partners worry that...

Creating targeted content for a specific audience makes a huge difference in marketing results.

Last week, an Acumatica partner asked me why they’re not attracting Acumatica leads. They hired a marketing agency to write weekly blog posts and promote them via social media. But the traffic to t...

ERP VARs – marketing needs to be an ongoing investment. Build your brand, create content and your unique voice to ERP content. Set up your campaigns, and be patient. It takes time to build momentum.

This is the last article in our series about how to leapfrog your competition. My first article...

In my last article, I talked about the importance of a niche focus. This is crucial to your success. You select your target niche based on your own business experience.

Deploying a new ERP platform creates a huge risk for a company. Rollout failures are common, and they’re often at least parti...

My last article for ERP VARs about leapfrogging your competition showed you how to figure out your unique value proposition. It is based on your unique business strategy, your ideal customer profile, your revenue strategy and the skills of your team. Now let’s talk about how to maximize your value a...

ERP VARs - if you develop a solid go-to-market strategy, you can leapfrog your competition and speed up the growth and profitability of your business.

As an ERP reseller, you have hundreds of competitors all selling similar products. The competition is fierce. With so many VARs (value added re...

Small business is often touted as the primary engine of job creation. But in reality, it’s not startups that contribute to stable jobs. It’s companies that reach the mid-market level of $10-50M in revenue. However, only 0.4% of businesses in the US ever reach that stage. Millions of firms get stuc...

About 4 years ago, a 50-person global financial services technology firm that provides cross-asset market access came to PropelGrowth for help developing and executing an integrated marketing strategy. This is their story.

Selling Technology to Financial Services Firms

This company was founded in ...

A few years ago, I did a loss analysis for a customer-onboarding software vendor. The sales team for this vendor were convinced (all the way up to the global head of sales) that the buyer for their product was the head of the onboarding team – essentially the product users and their direct boss. So ...

Financial technology marketers are steadily improving at creating awareness-stage marketing content. Many who were once verbose and blustery are now producing more customer-centric thought leadership. The white papers, blogs and articles they produce today provide substantially more value to the aud...