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Demystifying Buyer Intent Data: 3 Tiers of Actionable Insights

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At its core, intent data helps marketing and sales teams identify the companies and individuals most likely to make a purchase, especially in the near future. We’ve found through internal research — and validated with sellers and marketers — that champions moving to new companies are among the very best intent signals.

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A Sales Leader’s Blueprint for 2014

SBI Growth

You know you need to begin planning for 2014 now. Market conditions 12 months ago were very different. Why This Matters— The size of your addressable market has shifted. You sell to a more informed buyer. Phase 2 - Develop Go To Market Plan - Many sales VPs don’t know the best route to market.

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10 Incentive Travel Facts You Can Put To Good Use

Sales and Marketing Management

The Incentive Research Foundation (IRF), a private not-for-profit foundation that focuses its initiatives on pragmatic research highlighting the premise and the power of incentive and motivational programs, issued a list of 10 incentive travel facts to commemorate Global Meetings Industry Day. 38 percent of all U.S.

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51 Ways to Fund Your Sales Improvement Effort

SBI Growth

This might be a new buyer-aligned sales process. Or sales recruiting to staff a new go-to-market channel. And if marketing-related sales issues are being fixed, Marketing foots the bill. A company wanted to implement a buyer-aligned sales process. But, the SPIFF incentive didn’t completely go to the sales rep.

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CMO: Sales People are Cavemen

SBI Growth

Your world-class marketing machine is not delivering the return on the investment. The marketing lead conversion rate is not even close to a 30% revenue contribution. The competencies required by Sales for Marketing to be successful are just not there. Does the CSO/VP of Sales even understand how Marketing works?

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4 Sales Ops Lessons from the NFL

SBI Growth

Overall strategy, go-to-market model and product suite are essential. Is it aligned with the buyer, adopted in the field and reinforced by your “coaches”? Are your quotas attainable and reflective of current performance and market potential? Benchmark the market regularly to see if you’re competitive. Crazy, right?

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Five Bottom-Line Benefits for Incentive Compensation for Retailers

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With the introduction of new technology, as well as buyer behaviors constantly shifting, retail organizations are often stuck with the constant challenge of being able to balance happy employees and happy customers. Incentive Compensation helps: Improve sales performance by aligning sales behavior with business goals to improve efficiency.

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