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Effective Ways To Differentiate And Scale Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

I was in sales and marketing, and Andrea was in operations and dementia care. And before starting Senior Living Smart, I was a national VP of sales and marketing for Five Star, which was the fifth largest senior living company. We'd never owned a marketing agency. Why don't you just focus on marketing?

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Transcript of Getting the Meeting with Contact Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

There’s a lot of friction between marketing and sales. But here, it’s a combination of marketing and selling using micro-focused campaigns to help a sales rep break through to someone of great importance, so really these are top accounts, not prospects. We actually start bringing up the sales hit rate as well.