Vende Digital

Most B2B companies aren’t producing enough leads for their businesses to grow. At Vende, we run successful digital demand generation campaigns that keep our clients’ pipelines full of qualified opportunities. Schedule a complementary Digital Marketing Assessment, and let us see if we can help your company market online with confidence. Growing YOUR business is OUR business. 

Experts in B2B Demand Generation, Digital Strategy, Online Lead Generation, Content Marketing, Marketing Automation, Social Selling, LinkedIn Advertising, SEM (PPC), SEO, & Social Media Marketing.

Founder, CEO, B2B Digital Marketing & Social Media / Social Selling Consultant

Wells of Joy Ministries 

Wells of Joy exists to glorify God in the service of the families of the Lunga Lunga slums in Nairobi, Kenya. Our primary means of service is to provide a Christ-centered, high-quality education for children aged infant to 8th grade. We aim to offer a safe environment where these children can be fed, educated, discipled, and given the tools to escape the perils of their surroundings. 

I have been a long time supporter of this ministry and have visited them multiple times. In 2019, I was asked to assume the role of Chairman of the Board for their US operation.  It is amazing to me how much can be done for so little. This ministry feeds and educates 300+ children for ~$30/child. 

At Wells of Joy, we seek to address the spiritual and educational needs of the community by using our facility as a church and a school.

Ministering to people who live in the slum is unlike any other ministry. Life in the slum is a daily struggle with utter poverty and its degrading and dehumanizing impact. Because the most basic needs for life are so scarce many parents struggle to provide for their families while sheltering them from the negative influences surrounding them.

We believe lives can be changed by offering hope, support, and encouragement through education.

HOW WE SERVE:
-Christian Education
-Two daily meals (during the week)
-Discipleship
-Hope for the future

Board Member

Naomi's Village

At Naomi’s Village we believe that a lasting solution to the orphan crisis must come from within Kenya. Our vision is to raise our children to one day be part of the answer to the cries of their peers. In doing so we hope to raise the leaders of tomorrow, who will go and multiply the redemptive work of God in Kenya.

Splash Media U, Social Media Marketing Education

The industry's first accredited Social Media Marketing MOOC, Splash Media U, helps businesses and individuals get the most out of Social Media Marketing.  Our accredited online curriculum offers training in Strategy building, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Blogging. We offer individual certificates as well as a master certification.

Founder, Former President, & Adjunct Professor

Splash Media

I had a lot of fun building the business with Chris Kraft and Mark Hitchner.  Splash has gone on to be a leader in the social media space.  Beyond serving on the leadership team at Splash, my duties included:
*Developing Social Media Marketing best practices 
*Social Media Trainer
*Social Media Speaker
*Running Social Media Marketing Boot Camps for CEOs across the US
*Maintaining Search Engine Optimization SEO/SEM best practices
*Providing Internet Marketing & Usability guidance for our clients.

Chief Learning Officer, Co-Founder, & Social Media Marketing Strategist Trainer

WebDex Media Group

WebDex, Inc. is an internet marketing consulting firm based in Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas. Since our beginning in 2000, our mission has been to “Connect Customers to Our Clients.”  Specifically, WebDex provides social media strategic planning, search engine marketing, web-based lead generation, online public relations, and customer acquisition programs. WebDex increases the value of clients' Web sites, bringing qualified traffic and improving conversion rates.

CEO l Social Media Strategist, Trainer and Internet Marketing Strategist

Den Leader

Releasenow.com

I helped software companies sell and distribute software licenses through the Internet.

Account Executive

StorageTek

National Account Manager calling on SBC Communications, now ATT.

National Account Manager

Memorex Telex

During my time at Memorex Telex, I helped mid market companies reduce IT costs by providing IT equipment that lowered cost and improved productivity.

Sales Rep

Executing B2B demand & lead generation campaigns to grow pipeline and generate revenue l HubSpot Partner focused on ABM

I lead an awesome team of B2B digital marketing experts who work with B2B Marketing leaders like you to drive business revenue through sales-enabling, demand/lead-generating digital strategies. 

I believe digital marketing should be easier for B2B's and that you deserve digital marketing...THAT..JUST...WORKS! You shouldn't have to stay up to date with all of the latest trends or have to know all the best practices for launching, managing, and optimizing campaigns. It would help if you had a partner you could trust to bring your vision to life and execute it flawlessly. 

WE HELP WITH STRATEGY & EXECUTION
-B2B Digital Marketing Planning
-Digital Demand Gen, Lead Generation, & ABM
-Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Pay Per Click (PPC) Management
-Messaging Development and Content Marketing
-Digital Selling
-Marketing Automation

HERE'S MY BACKSTORY:
After surviving the Internet boom of the 90s, in 2000, I started WebDex Media Group, an Internet marketing consultancy, to help companies leverage the web to grow sales. 

In 2010, I sold WebDex to Splash Media. While there, I developed the tactical wheel, which has become a standard for training & implementing social media marketing.  

In 2012 I wrote Social Rules! which is available at bookstores today. (Ping me for a free ebook version). In the fall of 2020, I started writing Social Selling Rules! which will help sales teams maximize their online exposure and results for finding leads and moving prospects through the sales funnel.  

Now my focus is to take my 20+ years of experience and pour into companies, ensuring their B2B Digital marketing efforts are aligned with corporate objectives and optimized for results.

LET'S GET CONNECTED:
972-816-8548
Email:pslack@vendedigital.com

B2B Digital Marketing Expert | B2B Demand Generation l Social Media Consultant | Speaker | Search Engine Optimization Specialist | SEM and Pay Per Click Consulting | Social/Digital Selling Trainer

Paul Slack

Most B2B teams have no idea how to make their business show up in Google AI answers, ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini.

So we built an AI Visibility Cheat Sheet to help teams take some practical steps forward.

AEO really comes down to three things:
→ Can AI clearly understand what you do?
→ Can it retrieve your content as the answer?
→ Does it trust you enough to cite you?

This cheat sheet is built for teams who:
• Have seen traffic dropping in search
• Aren't showing up in AI results
• Don't know what AI-friendly content really means.
• Looking for practical steps to take

Inside the cheat sheet, we walk through:
• The signals AI looks for before it cites a brand
• The structural blind spots we see most often
• How to pressure test your content through an AEO lens
• What to focus on first   

It’s a 14-page comprehensive resource that gives you real practical steps to get started. 

We’ve been using this internally and with clients and seeing some great results. 

I'm happy to share it with you. 
Run it against your site.
See what stands out.
Take action.

To get access:
1) Connect with me
2) Like this post
3) Comment “AEO”

I’ll send it your way.

Founder & CEO | Pipeline Growth Agency | HubSpot Platinum Partner | ABM, Demand Gen & ABM Strategies That Drive Revenue

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Most B2Bs have a plumbing problem. 

This keeps showing up in the annual planning meetings I've attended lately.

They think it's a lead problem, but in reality, they don't have a clear & visible path for buyers to move from:

contact → hand raiser → opportunity → customer → growth

They try to solve this by cramming more leads into a clogged system, and end up with a backed-up sink, just like I do every holiday season.  

More leads won’t fix pipeline problems, just like more food won't clear the drain. 

But, we have to know where the clog is, since we can't fix what we can't see. 

So, as you think about 2026, don't just ask, "how do we get more leads?" 

Also, ask things like: 
-Where do opportunities stall?
-What buyer signals are we blind to?
-What part of the buyer journey feels like a black box?
-Where does friction show up between Marketing & Sales?

This will give you visibility into where they're losing the leads you already have. 
It’s not glamorous.
It's plumbing. 

But plumbing is what makes flow possible (in your kitchen and pipeline).

Kim Willis

Persuasion Pursuit

Got Skills But Minimal Sales?  The Shocking Truth About Most Experts…….

Most coaches, consultants and self employed ‘experts’ are great at what they do.  But here is where they often fall down: they’re not so good at finding clients.  If you’re like a lot of coaches, experts and creative people I talk to, sales and marketing is not a comfortable activity for you.

You just want to do what you do best – work with quality clients – and make a difference for them.

👉 Is This You?

Maybe you’ve got technical skills (SEO, web design, even accounting), or creative skills (writing, blogging etc), or maybe you're a coach.  Irrespective, you just want a better, easier way to find clients.  Without having to sell and hustle like a salesman

👉 A Better Way to Attract Clients

Here is where you want to be:  the expert and authority in your niche.  Get it right and people will beat a path to your door.  Mess it up and people will run a mile.
 
 ****Special Offer to My Linked In Connections****

If you want to attract ‘A’ class clients to you like bees to a honey pot, you should talk to me.  I’ve been using these techniques for years in my own business.  Techniques that enabled me to quit the rat race and travel the world as a digital nomad.  

So here is my $500 offer for you……

I will give you up to 1 hour of my time (by phone, Zoom or Skype) for brainstorming, including specific strategies on expert positioning and client acquisition.  I’ll always be focused on skyrocketing your income by showing you how to attract clients who pay you top dollar.  

All I ask for in return for this free help session is a testimonial and the opportunity to build a valuable relationship.

Results matter, so that will be my focus with you – to give you valuable ideas you can use straight away.

👉 Contact Me

Link me in (see above).

OR You can contact me here:
Phone:
USA: 310 601 8528
Australia: 07 3102 3572
Skype: kimwillishere
Email: kim@persuasionpursuit.com

Partner

Willis Marketing

Director

Story-based content for Hot Leads, Authority, and Trust | Ghostwriting for Time Poor Experts, Founders and C-Suite Execs | Soft Skills Specialist | Cut Through the Online Noise NOW

If you're an expert with something to say, shout about it.

But you need an engaged audience.

No audience = no clients

How will you do it?

Different ways but here are my favs:

1. Podcasts
2. YouTube
3. LinkedIn
4. Website
5. Email list
6. Live Events
7. Collaborations

All good, but it's not as easy as it looks, but I guess you know that already.

The issue is not the method; it's more about execution than anything else.  

How will you get the job done? 

Will you need help?

If you're a do-it-yourself person, fine.  How's that been going for you?

Look, if you don't fix it, here is what will happen:

- You won't get enough traffic
- You won't generate warm leads
- You won't attract high-value clients
- Your dreams will be put on hold
- Hopes will be dashed
  
 I can help you:

• Build trust

• Establish authority in your industry.

• Give clarity about what you do and who you help.

• Inspire a prospect to work with you

I've helped hundreds of people generate more traffic, leads and clients.  We do it with smart traffic and relationship-building methods.

For example, I redesigned Avon's LinkedIn About section and newsfeed content for his Relevate business. Views increased by 500% within two weeks, and he got a new client.

Help starts at $395.  Send me a message. 

► 𝟭𝟮𝟭 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝟲 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗛𝗦, 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗡𝗢 𝗔𝗗𝗦

"Kim helped me improve my content, sales copy, and one-to-one engagement with people. To say he has a 'way with words' is an understatement. With his help, I attracted 121 customers/clients online in six months. I spent no money on ads. Highly recommended." Connie Cachia, Digital Marketer (retired).

► 𝐀 𝐇𝐔𝐆𝐄 𝐀𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐔𝐄

"Great ideas; I love the full post. Now, I understand the power of good writing. And I can vouch for Kim's brain dump call process. A huge amount of value there." Lloyd Thompson, Founder at Digitaldoo.com

► '𝙆𝙄𝙈 𝙒𝙄𝙇𝙇𝙄𝙎 𝙄𝙎 𝘼 𝙍𝘼𝙍𝙀 𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙊𝙐𝙍𝘾𝙀'
"Kim Willis is a rare resource and one you should connect with. He can easily mix the skills of copywriting, sales and social media marketing in such a way that it works. I'll be forever grateful for the advice, coaching and mentoring he provided me, and so will you." Peter Beckenham. The Solopreneur Sales Strategist.

Last week I saw Faheem Moosa’s post that featured a pic of him with a couple of his clients.

No biggie except for one simple fact.  He’s from Canada, but the pic was taken in Dubai.

He was there for a business conference, and fortuitously, two of his clients were at the same event.

Like me, Faheem does all of his business online and rarely meets clients face to face.

Seeing as I haven’t been on a plane since before COVID, the last time I met clients face-to-face was in 2019.

I hosted a small mastermind for a handful of my clients, hence the pic.

Connie was one of my best students.  She embraced what I taught her and, over the next few months, attracted 121 customers without ads.  How did she do it? Direct outreach on Facebook.

Yes, really.   

Here is a picture of us in Bali.  Connie is on the right, with her husband on the left.

Referral Systems to Drive Leads | Trust-based Conversations to Drive Revenue | Case Studies to Build Belief and Authority | People Connector and Community Builder.

Who should you write for?

Those who pay you, or those who praise you?

For many, it’s the latter.

They crave approval

They forget about the main game: 
- Winning right fit people to your cause
- Being the go-to option for buyers

Temptations abound.

And lots of goo-roos will pander to your ego.

But winning Likes and Comments from those who will never buy.

Is a fool’s errand that ends up one way

No moulah
 
And a likely exit from LinkedIn

Oh well.  Another dream shattered.

Back to the drawing board.

The message?

Focus on: 
- Networking
- Relationships
- Conversations

Boring eh?

Why less qualified people are stealing your lunch

Here's the uncomfortable truth:

That "less qualified" person is winning BECAUSE their expertise is limited.

They think their basic insights are groundbreaking. 

But basic is exactly what your target buyers want.

Your buyers aren't experts. They're trying to solve a problem, and they need someone who can explain what's going wrong in simple terms.

Meanwhile, you're adding layers of nuance. Caveats. Sophistication.

You know too much to keep it simple.

You add complexity because you're worried a peer might think it's not "expert" enough.

This is status anxiety dressed up as quality control.

You're afraid to dumb it down because you want to prove to peers that you know your stuff.

But your ideal buyers aren’t impressed by your expertise.  What they want is simple: they feel you understand their challenges.

So you have a choice:

Create content that earns nods from peers (who will never hire you)...

OR create content that attracts clients.

One feeds your ego. The other feeds your family.

So, are you creating for peers or for your clients?

Cut the crap.  Fess up - your fear is holding you back
That was me

I was like a deer frozen in the glare of a car's headlight..

Trying to deal with my fear of public speaking wasn't easy.  

Time and time again, I rejected opportunities to give talks about my primary area of expertise:

“How to use stories and conversations to explode your sales”

Hot topic, eh?  Yet every time someone asked me to speak… 

I made every cotton-pickin' excuse under the sun, including:

- I’ll be on vacation
- I have another commitment
- My dog is about to die (I didn't have a dog)
- I’m scheduled to mow the lawn (I never mow lawns) 
- My wife said I was a loser, and now I'm sad (another lie)

But finally, I developed enough gumption to kick the fear to the curb.

And give my first talk.

It was a disaster, but I recommitted and, over the next few years, gave hundreds of talks. 

As I improved, my results also improved.  Some talks led to hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue.

All because I tackled the fear monster head-on, and won.

What fear have you conquered?

What fear do you need to tackle?

P.S.  I still have fears - fear of heights, and I’m claustrophobic.  Oh well, can't win ‘em all. 

TODAY'S PIC.  Me at 5 months.  Another lie.  It's Noah, my grandson, and he has NO FEAR.  (Well, not yet. haha)

Why B2B marketers mess up on LinkedIn
They treat it like a lead gen platform.

That used to be me.  I bought into the hype and went all out for leads.

After 3 months - no leads, no nothing

So I switched

I focused on relationships and little more than a month later signed my first client

So the message is clear:

LinkedIn is really a networking and relationship-building platform.

This is why cold outreach campaigns bomb.

The same applies to running ads to people who don’t know you.

It’s likely to fail.  You’re a nobody, and you will be ignored.

Instead, start here:

1. Ideal Buyers.  Your ideal client profiles (ICP)
2. Engagers.  Industry people who amplify your content to buyers.
3. Industry Influencers.  Thought leaders your buyers follow.
4. Potential Channel Partners.  Non-competitive companies serving your ICP
5. Niche Media.  Podcast hosts, event organisers and community owners.

Build relationships with these people.

Referrals, introductions and warm leads will flow from there.

The Success System That Never Fails

That’s the title of a book I read many moons ago.

Written by W. Clement Stone, he shared his miraculous story of how, at age 19, he began working with his mother to sell accident insurance policies. 

He became a sales superstar and then founded his own company, Combined Insurance, which eventually grew into a large business.

According to Stone, the keys to success are threefold:

1. PMA - Positive Mental Attitude.
2. A saleable product
3. A sales success system that never fails

Rather than constantly reinvent the wheel, he was adamant that a simple, replicable system trumps constant improvisation.

We dont have to embrace everything Stone did or all of his views, but I like the idea of having a success system that works over and over again.

Replication = Multiplication

It’s the way to scale.

Example:

I’m building a new referral system where warm leads are regularly produced.

Like clockwork.

I can’t do that without a reliable system that replicates the initial work I did

It’s not smart, it doesn't duplicate, and it’s very tiring.

Thoughts on systems?

Any fool can complicate things

Even me.  Which is why I’m always simplifying my message.

So an 8-year-old can understand it.

But to do it well, understand your topic at a deep level.

Go deep.

Then remove excess words that add nothing to the piece.

Sometimes less is more.

And right now commoditised content - AI slop or otherwise - is saying a lot but meaning little.

Your job is not to produce content that means nothing.

Instead, learn how to cut through so you mean something to your audience

It’s about resonance, not word count or posting frequency.  

Slow down, and focus on making real connection

That’s all.

Why I’ll never join BNI

Or other in-person business referral groups.

I’m not saying you can't make money from them.

You can.

But often the referrals are low quality - not exactly your type of people.


Not all referral groups are like that, of course.  

Some attract high-calibre people, but it’s the exception, not the rule.

The effect for many members - especially white-collar experts - is few, if any leads.

And if the leads convert, often the ticket value is low.


The other problem is the time factor. 

I know people who spend half their week travelling to one networking event or another.

And having one-to-one networking coffees.  

It’s ok to do these things, but it's not very time-efficient, and it can be expensive.

Here is my suggestion…

✅ Break free from the need to always meet people face to face.

And find a balance between online and offline networking activities.

And for crying out loud, be creative.

👉 Example:

Many moons ago, when living in Sydney, I hatched an idea to visit Melbourne to do business.

I had some connections there, so I enlisted their support and asked for introductions.  

Each of these introductions was called, and appointments were booked.  Yes, no emails or DMs were sent - fancy that.

The result was 5 new clients and a heap of revenue.

This might sound harsh, but some of the people who join these often expensive networking groups are a bit lazy.  

They don’t have the wit, courage or confidence to break free and go for it.  


There are plenty of ways to generate business without spending countless hours a week doing offline networking.

I’ll talk about one of them in my next post.

P.S. Regarding the above example.  It happened when I was a young guy - well before the internet.  Would I travel a long way to talk to leads now?  No way.  Today, I would do a Zoom call and decide the next steps from there.

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