Customer acquisition with Timothy Spell

Timothy Spell

Episode 89: Markus Erlandsson talks to Timothy Spell from OpenWater about customer acquisition and how they seek new customers, in past as well as under quarantine. Tim explains how they have used SEO and ads on keywords to get traffic together with attending conferences they grew about 35% each year. Now they work with virtual conferences and got 1000 visitors for a webinar. Tim continues to talk about how they started with the first sales and got going and how that has transformed into today’s partner-focused selling.

Bio

Tim Spell is the CEO of OpenWater He is based in the Washington, DC area. As a CEO he is incredibly passionate about non-profit work and was previously at the consulting and accounting firm KPMG.

Links

https://www.getopenwater.com/

https://www.getopenwater.com/integrations/how-openwater-and-microsoft-dynamics-work-together/

https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/dynamics-365/msnfp.msftnonprofitcommondatamodel?src=office&tab=Overview

http://www.tradeshowsamurai.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Trade-Show-Samurai-Capturing-Leads/dp/1468168711

https://www.linkedin.com/in/timspell/

Making CRM for the users with Jon Ferrara

Jon FerraraEpisode 55: Markus Erlandsson talks to Jon Ferrara from Nimble about making CRM for the users, the discussion starts with how CRMs started and how to get usability and usage. Jon continues to discuss how to sell and where to start with your selling.

Bio
Jon Ferrara is a serial CRM and Relationship Management entrepreneur and noted speaker about Social Media’s effects on Sales and Marketing. His most recent venture Nimble.com, has re-imagined CRM by building a Simply Smarter Social Sales and Marketing platform. Jon is best known as the co-founder of GoldMine Software Corp, one of the early pioneers in the Sales Force Automation (SFA) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software categories for Small to Medium sized Businesses (SMBs).

Links
PowerObjects CRM University

Nimble