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Articles From the SMARTech Convergence Journey

Written by Conduit's founder, Justin Perry, as the method took shape: practical articles on customers, sales, marketing, technology and the steps of SMARTech Convergence.

By Justin Perry

Which Waze to Go? How to Improve Customer Acquisition and Retention, Part I

5 min read

"Which Waze to Go?" will reboot your perspective of Customer Acquisition and Retention and will challenge you to rethink how your organization competes in today's marketplace.

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By Justin Perry

Which Waze to Go? How to Improve Customer Acquisition and Retention, Part II

6 min read

Part II of the "Which Waze to Go?" Series provides readers with valuable problem solving techniques and insight about how to overcome the inability to measure success within your organization.

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By Justin Perry

Which Waze to Go? How to Improve Customer Acquisition and Retention, Part III

5 min read

Part III explains why companies should be rebooting their customer acquisition and retention strategies to converge Sales, Marketing and Technology around the customer.

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By Justin Perry

A Martech Stack That Drives You in the Right Direction

5 min read

Today's martech landscape has become increasingly overwhelming with an extensive variety of platforms, vendors and artificial intelligence solutions that all claim to help you make sense of your data. But your data is useless without alignment between your people, processes, and platforms.

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By Justin Perry

Advice From the Best Salesperson I Ever Met

June 30, 2017 · 7 min read

Your customer is more informed than ever before and no longer wants to be "sold" anything anymore. As a result, traditional sales efforts are ineffective and a shift in strategy is needed.

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By Justin Perry

Advice From the Best Salesperson I Ever Met, Part II

12 min read

Uncover the secret to being a successful salesman and how problem solving can lead to a unified message and easy sales process.

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By Justin Perry

Why Your Website May Fail as a Sales Tool

6 min read

What does your website and the glass bank have in common? More than you think.

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By Justin Perry

Why Your Website May Fail as a Sales Tool, Part ll

7 min read

What does your website and the glass bank have in common? More than you think.

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By Justin Perry

The New Customer: How Can Sales + Marketing Adapt?

July 25, 2017 · 7 min read

Your SMARTech Journey starts with understanding the factors that drive the adoption of new organizational philosophy—SMARTech Convergence.

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By Justin Perry

Your Industry Lifecycle

July 25, 2017 · 7 min read

Is It New? Growing? Expanding? Established? Contracting? Find out where and how you can take advantage of the marketplace.

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By Justin Perry

How To Identify Business Opportunities

July 25, 2017 · 4 min read

SMARTech Convergence helps Marketing + Sales align geographically and concentrate on areas that are most likely to be profitable.

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By Justin Perry

Who Are Your True Competitors?

August 5, 2017 · 5 min read

Why your biggest competitors are not necessarily the companies that appear to be and how to discover your true competitors to gain competitive advantage.

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By Justin Perry

Setting Realistic Business Goals

August 6, 2017 · 8 min read

The 4-step method companies can use to set viable business goals and measure success.

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By Justin Perry

It’s Time To Redefine The Unique Value Proposition (UVP)

August 6, 2017 · 4 min read

Why the UVP is the most powerful weapon your company can use to protect its brand equity and market share.

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By Justin Perry

UVP + Your Best Customers

August 8, 2017 · 7 min read

What are the distinct roles someone may have in a buying process and how to approach them with your marketing and sales materials.

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By Justin Perry

Align How Your Best Customers Buy + How You Sell

August 8, 2017 · 9 min read

How to align your company’s internal sales process with the target customer’s buying process and drive more revenue with less marketing spend

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By Justin Perry

Building a Framework for Solving Business Problems

7 min read

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