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The Hidden Talent in Your Ranks

Sales and Marketing Management

As such, many companies today are beginning to look with renewed interest at their most readily accessible talent pool when filling open roles: their own employees. Rather than battling for new hires in an uber-competitive job market, smart companies are moving to train and promote from within. Tight Times Yield Smart Strategies.

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What is Smarketing and how do you do it?

Salesmate

In this context, marketers’ job is to produce content and promote the company to bring in as many leads as possible, while the sales team are left to attempt to convert these leads into customers. A 2010 study showed that companies with strongly integrated sales and marketing functions achieved an average of 20% annual revenue growth.

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The 5 Top Media for Cold Prospecting

Pointclear

Ruth Stevens is Founder of eMarketing Strategy , a consulting practice that assists companies in building their customer acquisition and retention strategies. The DMA’s 2010 Response Rate Report reported a healthy 1.68% response rate to B-to-B prospecting letter mail and 2.18% to its cheaper cousin, postcard mail.

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What Contributes to Sales Success?

Anthony Cole Training

Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! sales tools (25). A year ago, I met with a group that was experiencing very good revenue retention, but not-so-good new business sales success. These two metrics alone are FIRST for this company. Sales and a Fish Story.

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The Sales Leader's Guide to Performance Management

Hubspot Sales

As a sales leader, your ability to develop and retain your sales reps is important to your company’s bottom line and future success. Employee retention in the sales field continues to be an issue. years , down by half from 2010. Informational interviews with sales leaders within their company.

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Gartner CIO Study Highlights Need for Outcome-Based Technology Sales & Marketing Strategies

The ROI Guy

The results are based on survey responses from 2,014 CIOs worldwide, supported by interviews by Gartner analysts with leading CIOs, highlighting the following important trends: Busted Budgets - IT budgets are expected to increase by just 1% in 2011 over 2010 spending levels, with IT budgets not achieve their 2008 highs for 3 years, until 2014.

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Guest Post: Sales Teams Have More to Worry About Than Just Losing Clients

Don on Selling

You will also find information about how to write the best job description for a sales position and how to boost customer retention. Companies worry so much about interviewing to find the best sales representatives. Losing clients may not be as bad as losing fellow teammates and sales representatives of the company.

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