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Is AR/VR AdTech's Wild West?

by Duncan Connor | October 07, 2016

If you wonder what you’re going to watch on Sunday nights when Game of Thrones ends, HBO is hoping to tempt you with its beautiful, artificial intelligence-filled rendering of the old west. Westworld is based on the book and movie of the same name, and lands somewhere between Deadwood, Jurassic...

What Can You Learn About Sales from The Departed

by Duncan Connor | October 06, 2016

 The Departed, Martin Scorsese’s all-star Academy Award-winning movie—that does for Boston what Goodfellas did for New York—is about to turn 10 years old. But what does the brutal cops-and-robbers movie have to do with your sales team? 

September's Most Searched Companies

by Duncan Connor | October 04, 2016

Ah, September. The beginning of fall marks the start of the final push to the sales goal line, and the return of football and TV shows. But for those in the sponsorships and media markets, it means looking at the calendar for early 2017, and there were good reasons some companies got hotter than...

How to Do Biz Dev (When Your Main Job Is Something Else)

by Duncan Connor | September 30, 2016

According to HubSpot’s Agency Pricing and Financials Report, only one in three agencies has a dedicated business development professional on staff. We assume someone must be trying to generate new business for that other 66 percent, and we have some horror stories that tell us agency new business...

5 Ways to Grow Accounts You Already Have

by Duncan Connor | September 29, 2016

The recent HubSpot Partner Report on Agency Pricing and Financials revealed some startling statistics. With the average agency/brand relationship hovering around the 3-year mark, you might think agencies would spend more time trying to grow the size of each account. You'd be wrong. 

I Hope This Email Finds You Well

by David Thomson | September 27, 2016

Email is dead. At least once a week there’s some blog or chatter about the impending death of email. In fact, I just finished re-reading an article from Fast Company entitled Email Is Dead…from 2007.

Why Are More Brands Betting Big On Influencer Marketing

by Duncan Connor | September 16, 2016

Influencer marketing is relationship building. It’s most easily seen when a company partners with an individual to leverage the individual’s audience to grow the company’s audience. Today, it’s common to come across influencers on social media platforms, marketing brands to their followers.

Mirren Summit on Media Innovation Contact List

by Dave Currie | September 09, 2016

The Mirren Summit on Media Innovation is almost here, and I'm looking forward to seeing many of our customers in New York next week.

Summer's Hot Brands

by Duncan Connor | September 07, 2016

Most months, we give you a glimpse of what the most-searched brands, parent companies or agencies have been in our sales intelligence platforms. Those snapshots are good, but what if you want to know what’s been hot over a longer period?

Summer's Blockbuster Agency Moves

by Duncan Connor | August 30, 2016

 Unless there's something going on behind the scenes with Green Giant and Electrolux’s media accounts, the summer’s agency shuffles are just about done. So here's our a rundown of some of the biggest agency moves between Memorial Day and Labor Day, courtesy of DailyVista, but which were more...

5 Sales Intelligence Must-Haves to Find Decision Makers

by Marilyn Mead | August 17, 2016

Sales intelligence tools provide background data on contacts, companies and industries. The idea is that rather than spending hours researching and vetting contact information for decision makers - that may or may not prove fruitful - sales professionals can use these resources to easily access...

3 Tips for Hiring Better Sales Staff

by David Thomson | August 10, 2016

 The first key to attracting and retaining solid sales talent, and sometimes the most overlooked, is understanding what makes your top performers unique. I don’t mean understanding that they bring in the most revenue, they make the most calls, etc.

Five Fast Growing Sales & Marketing Titles

by William Boydston | July 07, 2016

The technology landscape has turned the marketing industry into the Wild West of titles. Interesting new titles are sprouting up every single day and it’s hard to keep up. While many are just a flash in the pan and are only understood by the team of people that hold them, several others have...

Top Brand, Company & Agency Lists

by Marilyn Mead | June 27, 2016

Top Brand, Company & Agency Lists

Winmo’s advertising and agency database holds the keys to over $100 Billion in annual media spend, with contacts that control the purse strings for 36,000 major brands. 

Of those advertisers, there are industries, categories, contacts and titles that trend at...

How Strategic Is Your Sales Strategy?

by Jennifer Groese | June 23, 2016

When businesses experience stagnation in their sales and revenue, something that’s easy enough to avoid is often to blame: They lack a clearly defined sales strategy. Even if you have a sales strategy, how often do you revisit it?

DailyVista Exclusive: Spin Master Hires Media Planning, Buying Agency Ahead of Holidays

by Josh Stone | June 16, 2016

DailyVista readers heard it first! That’s right, the insiders at our prospecting publication DailyVista have confirmed that Spin Master, one of the top five toy manufacturers in the US, has moved its estimated $30 million media business to Initiative LA, concluding a review in which the incumbent,...

Stock Up on Back to School Advertising Leads

by Marilyn Mead | June 14, 2016

While parents, kids and coeds are thinking more about summer vacations than fall semester, there’s no doubt that brand marketing executives are gearing up back-to-school initiatives to entice consumers when the rush begins, so now is the time to “stock up” on your back-to-school media prospect...

Winmo Beta Tests Demographics in Partnership with StatSocial

by Marilyn Mead | June 03, 2016

Winmo users leverage demographic data to expose new prospects & growth opportunities.

All advertisers are not created equal. Some brands appeal more strongly to Hispanics, or Millennials, others skew male,

Prospecting Profile: Director of Marketing Operations

by Marilyn Mead | May 03, 2016

A new position is showing up in the ranks of more and more marketing departments: the DMO, or Director of Marketing Operations. This position isn't meant to take the place of the CMO – on the contrary, it's usually CMOs who are proposing this new title as a way of linking upper leadership and daily...

The Race for Ad Dollars: Political Campaigns with High Prospecting Value

by Marilyn Mead | April 29, 2016

 In addition to pursuing sales opportunities with brand marketers and their agencies, advertising professionals have an interesting set of prospects that crop up around election season.