Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

My guest today is Dave Munn who has been President and CEO of ITSMA since 2000, having led ITSMA's global expansion to become the leading B2B marketing association for technology, professional services, and telecom companies. 2012 Trending: Significant Transformation for Marketing Groups. New marketing channels.

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Score More Sales

MARCH 8, 2012

You’re done in by lost sales, missed opportunities, misaligned goals, and “no’s” toward the end of a prospective customer’s long buying cycle. Your prospect. To be successful in complex deals, you must understand why the prospect is looking at solutions now as opposed to before or later.

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 29, 2012

The person’s perspective was he doesn’t need to sell because he works on building a relationship with the prospect and then they wind up buying. He was allowing the relationship he created with the prospect to be the foundation for the confidence the prospect needed to make a decision to buy.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 7, 2013

A lot was written in 2012 regarding the change in buyer behavior. As a sales rep, you can’t rely solely on Marketing to develop your presence. He’ll reveal tips and tricks used by LinkedIn to prospect and grow business. Your prospects and customers are doing the same. Let’s assume you have a meeting with a big prospect.

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 9, 2012

By the late 60’s, we also were able to receive the relatively weak signals of two UHF channels. One thing, which you surely have noticed about presentations and demos, is that the prospects are given essentially the same ones. When you or your salespeople begin their presentations, aren’t there some prospects who would prefer to sleep?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 15, 2013

Executives continually point to the need for Sales and Marketing to align, with 90% of Senior Marketers indicating to Forrester that indeed alignment is a high or very high priority. However, the story is quite different when Marketing is asked about their own priorities. It’s not on Enablement.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 8, 2011

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. As usual, I invite you to have your two cents, and view all our videos at Renbor’s You Tube channel Sell Better. Prospecting. When Sales Met Marketing. 3 R’s of Prospecting Success. December 2011.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

This post describes the Social Seller's strategy to grow their prospect list through LinkedIn. have held director-level or above positions (source: LinkedIn Ad Platform, 2012). This is where Content Marketing meets Social Selling. Are they connected to potential prospects? Supplier, vendors, channel partners.

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Score More Sales

MAY 10, 2013

Listen and engage with their market and industry to offer insight to their buyers. LinkedIn has hired some social dynamos who are great marketers like Koka Sexton , Ralf VonSosen and Brandon Lopez among others helping to grow the business. Build their network of trusted peers to grow their reach.

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Velocify

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

trillion messages sent worldwide in 2012 [1] , it’s no wonder that sweethearts and marketers alike are flocking to this communication channel, and salespeople are just beginning to understand its value. 1] Portio Research, Mobile Messaging Futures 2012-2016, 2012. [2] With an estimated 9.6

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Score More Sales

MARCH 26, 2013

It went on to say that many midsize businesses still rely on traditional, non-integrated customer management, sales tracking or marketing systems. In addition, these companies are growing their connection to the customer through social channels – so the natural progression of thought is to get more CRM applications social too.

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Score More Sales

JUNE 29, 2012

They had someone (or a team) monitor social channels; listening for trigger events, learning about their existing customers and interacting with soon-to-be buyers. They had policies in place to make sure that sales reps were rewarded for sales activity, including updated prospect and client information in their CRM system.

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Tenfold

AUGUST 30, 2017

Information in today’s digital milieu has always been a double edged sword for sales and marketing. A 2014 research by the Acquity Group, a digital marketing company under Accenture, pegs the number of B2B buyers who do online research at 94 percent. This share spans across a variety of channels. Business websites lead at 84.3

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 14, 2012

When it comes to integrating online and social activities into their marketing and sales strategies it seems like there are two camps – those that “get it” and those who will wait till there is more “proof” that social selling actually works. Are you utilizing these basic ideas with your sales and marketing teams?

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 23, 2012

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Jan 23, 2012. Have you ever spent a day with your channel partners and joined them on a few sales calls? Sit in on a strategy session with your marketing team or a weekly budget update with a project manager. prospecting. E-mail RSS.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2018

For many years salespeople at companies like Box, Citrix, Paypal and more have relied on Zoominfo, founded in 2000, as their foundational database of millions of business profiles and contacts when prospecting and sourcing leads. The product can answer questions like, “What technologies does my target prospect use?”

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Pointclear

JULY 26, 2012

Tony is a sales and marketing thought leader with nearly 20 years of experience. He has led the research function at SiriusDecisions for more than 10 years, overseeing the creation of content including demand creation, product marketing, marketing communications, general strategy, sales training, hiring and client service.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

OCTOBER 28, 2011

I wanted to channel that energy, harness that energy, and direct it toward a sales prospect. There is no time like the present to change things up in 2012 to ensure its better than 2011! Return to top of page Copyright © 2012 All Rights Reserved. Why would I waste that energy on having lunch with co-workers?

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The Pipeline

APRIL 25, 2011

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. Prospecting. When Sales Met Marketing. 3 R’s of Prospecting Success. Community Marketing Blog. Your email address will not be shared. Sign up for our Email Newsletter. For Email Newsletters you can trust.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 8, 2013

This represents a significant uptick in spending growth from the anemic 2012 rate of only 1.2%. In fact, Gartner predicted that 2012 growth was going to be 3.7% Prospects will ignore you messages and choose to “Do Nothing” unless you can proactively and provocatively quantify that they have a pain worth addressing.

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Pointclear

JUNE 8, 2012

Click to start video at this point —Asked about what companies are thinking and doing about satisfying their customers in 2012, Ginger notes the combination of the current economy and customers having social media megaphones means companies can’t hide from what customers are saying anymore. Who can help me solve it?

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

2012 Surprise: Slow Adoption of Technology Like Sales Intelligence Tools. Many of these challenges can be traced to a root cause: “Companies haven’t realized how significantly their prospects or target customers have changed, and they haven’t retooled their salespeople to deal with this. That can be through any number of channels.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 9, 2013

Gartner blames the revision on exchange rate fluctuations, but I don’t buy this as the main reason for halving their IT spending growth, as similar reasons were given for lowered expectations in 2012 as well (where initial estimates of 3.7% the Prospect has a pain worth addressing and a significant cost of “Do Nothing”, Why Now?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 16, 2014

In 2012, initial rosy predictions of 3.7% Most importantly, you need to take Frugalnomics into account as you evolve your sales and marketing strategies and investments to meet the challenge. Prospects will choose to stick with the status quo unless you can proactively and provocatively quantify that they have a pain worth addressing.

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Your Sales Management Guru

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The acceptance of social media communication by all individuals for their personal use; Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, texting, etc, and corporations using it in marketing and even building their internal social networks, that current clients and prospects will begin to accept social media more easily in their sales relationships.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

2012 Trends: Interconnectedness & Reluctance to Make Aggressive Decisions. Click to start video at this point — Asked about what has happened in marketing and sales that has or hasn’t surprised him in 2012, Bob talks about interconnectedness: “It’s sobering about how interconnected we are with other economies.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2014

It’s the time where you start seeing various pundits dusting off their crystal balls guessing what the big issues facing sales and marketing professionals in 2015. Marketing/Sales Integration. Marketing Automation/Tools. Demand Generation/Lead Gen/Content Marketing/Nurturing. Systems/Processes/Tools.

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Fashion Face-to-face Analytics Social Media 89

Velocify

JANUARY 21, 2013

While text messaging has quickly become one of the most widely used forms of personal communication, in business, sales professionals have been slow to adopt the mobile tool that has been embraced by their marketing counterparts. of sales prospects received a text message during the sales cycle. The research examined more than 3.5

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

To have a successful product launch, you need to craft a thoughtful, actionable, effective go-to-market (GTM) strategy framework. Without proper planning, it’s impossible to know if you’re chasing the wrong audience, are too early or too late to a given market, or targeting a market that's too saturated with similar solutions.

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Crunchbase

JULY 2, 2020

I also knew, as head of the food delivery business in Europe, that we were late in our entry into the market, and that the industry was evolving at an unprecedented rate. In fact, Gartner recently found that the technologies commanding the most investment in customer service are those related to customer-facing channels, such as self-service.

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LeadFuze

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It establishes the manner in which you should engage prospects and the language you should use with them. The approach that is most appropriate for you will vary according to your business market. Once they are disclosed, sales representatives can determine if the solution is a good fit for the prospect.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 8, 2014

In 2012, initial rosy predictions of 3.7% Most importantly, you need to take Frugalnomics into account as you evolve your sales and marketing strategies and investments to meet the challenge. Prospects will choose to stick with the status quo unless you can proactively and provocatively quantify that they have a pain worth addressing.

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A Sales Guy

JANUARY 18, 2012

Most of the tools available to sales people today can fundamentally transform their prospecting and lead generation. Leveraging the new tools to build your own powerful lead generation engine is the key to making your number in 2012 and beyond. It keeps you on your prospects and customers radar. It’s a great site.

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Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

And if you’re curious about how Stripe developed its go-to-market model and sales motions, Meka led a Hubspot lesson last year that you can still download for free here. Why Brooke should be on your radar: Brooke Bachesta currently leads the mid-market SDR team at Outreach.io. Brooke Bachesta. SDR Manager at Outreach.io. Megan Bowen.

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Your Sales Management Guru

APRIL 2, 2012

The purpose of this group is offer you insights into the needs of the customers-from their perspective, evaluation of your; service, sales, operations, idea’s on market trends-especially important for those partners in a vertical market. HINT: when this occurs-you know you have succeeded and we always invite your top prospects.

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HeavyHitter Sales

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. February 2012. January 2012. Therefore, you must ramp up your prospecting efforts accordingly. Prospective customers rarely return cold calls and sending letters usually fails to generate results. The structure of your e-mail is critical to driving the prospect to respond.

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Delicious Sales

MAY 2, 2012

Marketing (6398). Prospecting (4539). Channels (799). 2012 (9049). So many prospects and clients to kill, so little time. But don’t worry; salespeople all over the world are doing their damnedest to kill as many prospects and clients as possible every day. Topics Major Topics. Sales (12918). Training (4995).

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