Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 29, 2019

Author: Paula Sanders There’s a lot of hype around artificial intelligence, but the reality of its impact to sales and marketing strategies promises to be positive. However, just as technology has evolved, so has the customer’s sales approach. That’s a significant opportunity. Artificial Intelligence Is Here – Embrace It.

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Allego

JANUARY 10, 2023

Yuchun Lee and Mark Magnacca—long-time entrepreneurs with successful careers in different industries—launched Allego in 2013 to transform how people learn and succeed at work. In the process, they redefined sales enablement and disrupted an entire market. The founding team realized that traditional sales training was broken.

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SBI

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Do you want to accomplish more in 2013? If you want 2013 to be better–in whatever way you define that to be–you will need to take charge of change. There are lots of sales tools to help you. There are lots of sales tools! We’ll each be recommending 6 sales tools for B2B sellers. Shorten the sales cycle.

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Boston is emerging as one of the hottest startup cities in the country, which is great news for sales professionals. With so many companies in the neighborhood, looking for a new job can be pretty overwhelming as well as exciting. Here are the companies you should consider to jump-start your job search. stars on Glassdoor.

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PandaDoc

MAY 4, 2022

And that is why invoicing software has proven to be one of the most useful innovations of the 21st century. But with all the options out there, how do you know which invoicing software is best suited to your business needs? Best invoicing software. What are the best options for invoicing software? FreshBooks. Zoho Books.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 4, 2013

Issue Date: 2013-07-05. Author: Atri Chatterjee, CMO, Act-On Software. In a company that has well-aligned sales and marketing departments with the common goal of revenue, the answer is: It depends on where the buyer is on the journey. Teaser: Whose job is it to send an email? Whose job is it to send an email?

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Velocify

DECEMBER 3, 2012

The Ultimate Contact Strategy provides a ready-to-use road map to rev up your sales process in 2013. And if history repeats, Sales leaders are undoubtedly spending a significant amount of time strategizing on how they’ll hit a bigger number in 2013. Improves sales processes and top line sales growth?

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SBI

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Top Sales World just held their annual ceremony for the Top Sales and Marketing Awards. In all, there were 16 categories that honored thought-leaders; books, blogs and articles; software tools; and useful resources. It’s truly an exciting time for those in the marketing and sales profession.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

It is the first night of sales kickoff for a $400 million communications company. The title is “ Make the Number in 2013 ” and he comes unglued: “The number. My sales force tells me they can’t make it. This year I bought marketing automation software. Before that I spent a small fortune on sales training.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 15, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan The lumber and building products industry is notorious for having weak salespeople (compared with the population of salespeople in all industries) who call on distributors and retail lumber yards and take orders. TheStreet.com published this article, The Digital Skeptic - Software Sales are Over.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Selling to business can be a great profession for talented sales people who want to work in ‘big time’ sales. Especially as you work with medium and large size companies, B2B sales can mean large transactions and more opportunity to showcase advanced selling skills. Long Sales Cycles. Uneducated Buyers.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 12, 2013

That’s why there are dozens of successful lead generation companies all over North America. Make it a good one – like: How one of your clients now has piece of mind for the first time in years since they started using your security software. It works every business day of every week. You maybe are frustrated (furious?)

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Most of the calls and emails we receive come from companies with flat or declining sales. However, some of the greatest successes occur when we help companies that are already kicking ass. Like all kick-ass sales forces, they could do better. You need them both.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 20, 2012

HR leaders, get ready for the 2013 Sales Kickoff by fixing the flaws in your compensation plan today. And get your hands on a Competency Grader for compensation assesement providers as part of SBI's "Make The Number 2013.". Technology Company: More than 60% of the sales force are on a trajectory to miss their number.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 17, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday I was in the office, preparing for the today''s formal introduction of Objective Management Group''s (OMG) award-winning, new and improved, fourth generation, Sales Candidate Assessment ( View the 25-minute Webinar here ) when the phone rang and I answered. It''s a must read.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 8, 2013

An example of how it works is you might be selling B2B in the software industry. Prospects you’re trying to reach are end users of software and typically work for either an IT company or in the IT department of a company. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.”

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 17, 2014

As the CEO, you have a company growth objective. According the “Year-End CEO Report” conducted by Challenger, Grey & Christmas, CEO turnover rose in 2013. According the “Year-End CEO Report” conducted by Challenger, Grey & Christmas, CEO turnover rose in 2013. There were “1,246 CEO changes in 2013, 2.6 Technology.

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The Sales Hunter

MAY 31, 2013

It is time to get it out on the table and say once and for all that if you are a sales manager, you are in a dead-end position. If you are a salesperson and you want to be promoted to a sales manager position, it’s time to change your thinking. Let me share with you 5 reasons why you don’t want to be a sales manager.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan You probably haven't read this article by Dan Pink (Thanks to Craig Ruhland for sending me the link). Pink points to research showing that extroverts and introverts are not as successful in sales as ambiverts, the people in the middle of the scale between both extremes.

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SBI Growth

MAY 5, 2013

Kathy is the CMO of an emerging software company. She has helped build the company with superb demand generation efforts. There’s a substantial difference in the CPL between companies with and without common definitions.” Kathy was going to pay more attention to the formal management of leads between sales and marketing.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

More often than not, sales and marketing live in siloes. For a company to survive these days, sales and marketing must work in concert. The best marketing leaders know how to overcome the divide and gain credibility with sales. And they involve the sales team in the process. It will only help the sales team.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 29, 2013

If you know me or have been reading my blogs for some time, you know I like to use the phrase, “Sales is leadership. Leadership is sales.” ” I’m a firm believer in the phrase and believe there is significant upside to individuals and companies that embrace what this means.

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Score More Sales

MAY 15, 2013

Remote professional selling requires a certain level of energy and enthusiasm that conveys confidence in yourself, your company, and your services or products. Sellers who push their product too hard, excusing this behavior as “passion” for their job or company are missing the point. What if I don’t? Gee, thanks.

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Score More Sales

MAY 11, 2012

Ashley Furness, CRM Market Analyst at Software Advice recently wrote about this very issue – teams of salespeople have received or will received tablets but do not have clear deployment plans. While 78% of businesses plan to deploy tablets by the end of 2013, more than half lack an articulate deployment plan. Do you have a plan?

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 16, 2020

There are plenty of successful inventors, innovators, and businesspeople operating their own companies before they turn 30. Leveraging previous ecommerce experience from his eyewear brand, Enclave , Kane forewent venture capital for his new wallet design in favor of a series of Kickstarters between 2013 and 2014. It has no minimum age.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 21, 2013

The annual HubSpot INBOUND conference started as a great get-together for fans of the inbound marketing software platform a few years back and has grown now to being one of the biggest and best marketing conferences out there. The post Seth Godin Speaks and Marketers Listen appeared first on Score More Sales. Increase Opportunities.

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Pipeliner

MAY 22, 2020

Discounting is a Sure Sign of Sales Failure , proclaims one recent headline. Sometimes discounting signals failure, but it can also signal vitality, for example, when a company executes a high-growth strategy to grab market share in a nascent market. Discounting gets a bad rap. Done right, discounting is hardly a mark of shame.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 15, 2018

This is why a start-up company hired me to build their training department. Step Sales Process by modeling two top sales professionals who had been selling for years. You can draw off the collective brainpower of all the business professionals connected to your company. I created our 10.5 Good enough for me.

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HeavyHitter Sales

JANUARY 18, 2014

Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles titled the THE 12 SALES METRICS THAT MATTER MOST.     Sales is both an art and a science. Below, you will find twelve of these key sales metrics that benchmark sales organization performance, structure, and effectiveness. million and software was $3.2

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Pointclear

JULY 17, 2013

To read an excerpt from her latest book, Smart Sales Manager , click here. Today’s “new normal” sales landscape has sales leaders scratching their heads, wondering about the best way to structure their sales organizations. Should they keep their expensive sales duo: inside sales AND field sales?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 18, 2013

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Today, more than ever before, strategic partnerships, both formal and informal, are an important element of conducting business. The referrals and introductions which happy customers make for their sales reps. There are so many more examples. Whom do you recommend? Who recommends you?

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SBI

MARCH 20, 2018

A dozen years ago, if you asked the average sales leader about their sales enablement strategy, the likely response would’ve been, “Huh?”. It’s not as if companies in years past weren’t training and enabling their sales forces; it’s just that the term “enablement” wasn’t yet a common part of the B2B sales lexicon.

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The Sales Hunter

AUGUST 20, 2013

Recently, I began searching for a new software package for my company. In talking with several other companies that had worked with the company, I kept hearing the statement, “You can dicker with these guys.” Here was the system I knew was going to be best for my company. ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan A company''s executive team can have a positive or negative influence on the performance of the sales team. Each member of your executive team can impact sales in some small, or not so small way. When AE''s are introduced into the sales process, many of them want to take over.

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Grant Cardone

JANUARY 11, 2023

January 27th – Day 4: UNBREAKABLE SALES. On Day 4, you’ll discover a recession-proof sales approach that multiplies profits… even in a shrinking market. A millionaire by age 32, Jarrod specializes in sales, event promotion, digital marketing, and creating extraordinary company culture. This is the icing on the cake.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 9, 2013

We’re nearing the last quarter of 2013, and another year of sales will soon be behind us. An important question all sales and marketing departments should be asking themselves is how they can better communicate in order to follow up on leads. Jim is also the President of Sales Leakage Consulting, Inc.

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Pointclear

APRIL 24, 2013

Jim is Managing Partner at CSO Insights, a research firm that specializes in benchmarking how companies are leveraging people, process, and technology to optimize the way they market to, sell to, and service customers. Jim has over 29 years of sales and marketing management experience. Lead Generation — Don''t Just Turn Up the Volume.

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