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At the end of June, AdWeek published a list of prominent female executives and influencers in sports. These powerful women represent major sports leagues, sponsor organizations, television networks and sports entertainment companies. 

When you think of Taco Bell, you probably think of college kids making late night runs to the fast food joint to pick up heaping amounts of low-cost Tex-Mex study fuel. But your mind might not automatically jump to hip strategies that tap straight into the Millennial market.

There is no tool in the your armory more important and impactful to your revenue goals than your customer relationship management database. It allows you to to keep everything organized by tracking prospects, current clients, and most import your past clients while logging their journey through the...

At the beginning of each month we sit down and take a look at which brands our subscribers have been looking at, and connect the dots between the news and the opportunities. 

If you want to know how much these brands and their competitors are spending to make you notice them, WinmoEdge subscribers...

Omnichannel marketing is what’s now, multi-channel marketing is so 2000-late. If multi-channel marketing is presenting your brand across channels to provide consumers with information where they are in the buyer journey, omnichannel is much closer to presenting that same information in a much more...

When you use a contact database with your marketing software, bad data isn’t just bad, it’s the worst. In the race to deliver more personalized experiences, more complicated technology that interacts with your customer database can lead to some unexpected results.

Mirren Live 2017 is in on the horizon, and there's a great line-up of speakers and events to check out from agency search consultants to agencies to big brands and more.

Sales -- and prospecting in particular -- can veer wildly from goal-crushing to soul-crushing. It’s not unusual for sales people to have a process of filling their pipeline by prospecting, then closing and writing contracts. But when the contracts are being closed and written, cold-calling and...

If sales was a round of golf, the clubs you have in your bag would be just as important as your skill with them, or your familiarity with the course. Gary Player said, “A good golfer has the determination to win and the patience to wait for the breaks.” He could have been talking about sales.

Every month we look at which brands, agencies or companies have seen the most traffic and then peel back the layers to look at the drivers of that interest. From a prospecting point of view, understanding these triggers can be the difference between reaching out ahead of the rush, and missing...

If you want to be successful pitching your event to corporate sponsorship executives, the first thing you have to understand is that the size of their organization really does matter, because it affects their motivation for working with you.

The IEG Pivot Sponsorship Conference 2017 is in full swing, and there's a great line-up of speakers and events to check out from sports teams to agencies to financial industry giants and more.

In all this talk about reaching decision makers, it’s easy to think that everyone in a decision making position is alike. While most decisions have some element of risk management or process efficiency involved, they’re not necessarily strategic decisions.

Writing a great cold call email for sales prospecting is a hard craft to master. And like any craft, if you look at the results you're getting, think about how to improve and then hone your skills, you'll get better. Prospecting outreach that fills your pipeline doesn't happen by accident, but with...

Every month we look at the most visited company profiles in Winmo and consider the reasons those companies and brands caught our users' attention. This month saw Super Bowl ads, streaming TV and a cosmetics retailer on our collective radars. 

If you're in business as an entrepreneur or small business owner, your mailbox is probably full of offers from marketing and business intelligence service providers who want to take your money. The trouble is, how do you know which services are worth the money, and which ones have a free competitor...

In business it’s easy to find software to spend money on - everything from accounting software to applications that help you create business plans. But for the sales and marketing teams, software costs can run into five or six figures, so what software will help you generate sales leads and still...

If you're looking for great conferences to spend some Q1-Q2 budget on, or if you're looking for events in the marketing, advertising, media, advertising and technology space, here are a few conferences that are still registering attendees.

Every month we look at the most-visited company profiles in Winmo and consider the reasons those companies and brands caught our users' attention. This month we have a couple of burger chains, catwalk-to-closet fashions, frozen food and a vacation resort.

The Patriots staged an historic come-from-behind victory in the Super Bowl and Lady Ga Ga gave a half-time performance for the ages - and for many of us, part of the joy of watching the big game is in the often-spectacular ads during the broadcast.