Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Recently, I lamented about the challenge I face with my email Inbox in Your Marketing Is Driving Me Away! I spoke of the ever increasing volume of email messages that are simply irrelevant, undifferentiated, or poorly executed. Coincidentally, I read a research report on The State Of Email Marketing 2015.

Marketing 48

Marketing Face-to-face Vendor Email Marketing 48

Cience

APRIL 2, 2020

In 2015, HubSpot published the result of their traffic research , stating that 46% of traffic that B2B companies across all the industries get to their websites is direct. Direct traffic remains an enigma for marketers. the email share) and marketing professionals are learning to set Google Analytics accordingly.

Outbound 85

Outbound Inbound Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 85

Tony Hughes

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

In the last few days I have been facilitating focus groups for a research study in Australia being conducted by The Eventful Group who are running a big CRM conference in Melbourne in July 2015. If you valued this article, please hit the ‘like' and ‘share’ buttons below.

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CRM Strategy Customer Epiphany 82

Increase Sales

JANUARY 1, 2016

My focus was the downloads and most viewed pages because this blog and my website are incredibly important marketing channels for my executive coaching and workplace culture (organizational development) consulting. If there is any time invested, it is probably directed to financial statements while data from marketing is ignored.

Data 70

Data Loyalty Ideal Customer Profile How To 70

Crunchbase

MARCH 1, 2023

Full methodology details are available at the end of this article. They’re launching sales podcasts, YouTube channels and startups of their own. In this role, she advises and accelerates go-to-market and U.S. go-to-market and sales strategies. go-to-market and sales strategies.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Enterprise 130

Cincom Smart Selling

AUGUST 27, 2020

Technology partnerships offer a great way to obtain access to markets, special skills, tribal knowledge , physical assets and operational scalability that would simply not be possible to the enterprise relying on its native capabilities. Great partnerships require more than marketing symbiosis. Technological Alignment.

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Government Enterprise Enterprise Fashion 77

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 8, 2020

Let this article be a stake in the ground! They can interact with multiple people in our organization, via multiple channels. Increasingly, customers are as loyal to the channel as they are to the brand. Any organization intent on shifting from field to inside sales has to know if that transition will suit its market.

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Inside Sales Hiring Scale Face-to-face 119

HeavyHitter Sales

JANUARY 18, 2014

Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles titled the THE 12 SALES METRICS THAT MATTER MOST. SMB Specialization Sixty-three percent responded that they have specialized inside salespeople that are dedicated to SMB (small to medium business) or mid-market sales.     Sales is both an art and a science.

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Telecommunications Quota Inside Sales Field Sales 126

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 7, 2021

seconds in 2015 (and additional research shows it at about 8 seconds in 2020). Some is to increase the channels through which we are trying to capture attention. There are endless articles with tips on managing interruptions and improving our attention. It’s not new, but the evolution of our attention spans is alarming.

Social Media 59

Social Media Media Microsoft Sports 59

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 16, 2019

These factors converge to present an opportunity – and challenge – for B2B merchants: adopt an omni-channel sales approach or miss out on significant revenue. In this article, we’ll examine what a comprehensive omni-channel means, the key aspects of an omni-channel approach, and how to support implementation.

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Channels Social Media Consumer Lead Rank 259

Close.io

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This article covers fifteen top cold calling books, divided into four categories. The last update of the book came out in 2015, yet many of its research techniques remain relevant for finding information about your prospects on the web. Author : Jeb Blount Published : October 5, 2015. Let’s get started. Jump to category: ?

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Cold Calling Negotiation Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 116

LeadFuze

JULY 16, 2019

An article by Mathew Sweezey published on Convince & Convert points out that 80% of B2B buyers expect the same buying experience as B2C customers, expecting companies to respond and interact with them in real time. . In short, B2B marketers can no longer ignore the importance of CX, dismissing it as a B2C marketing trend. .

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Influencer B2B Customer B2C 63

MarketJoy

JULY 10, 2018

High time we shift the spotlight from the ultimate deal closers to the Sales development reps (SDR) as they are the real go-getters of the sales and marketing world. At times, the whole marketing plan can just be based on the insights from an SDR and would do better than ever. SDRs As the Educators .

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Decision Maker Sales Qualified Lead Telemarketing Lead Rank 45

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 14, 2015

I saw a fascinating graphic and post at the Marketing Technologies Site. The headline, is they have identified 1876 Marketing Technology Vendors in 43 Categories. The article suggest the spend on Marketing Technology Solutions in 2015 will exceed $22.6 How do we participate in those channels?

Marketing Qualified Lead 48

Marketing Qualified Lead Vendor Case Study Analytics 48

Mereo

OCTOBER 29, 2020

This article was written in collaboration with Austin Greene, Mereo’s 2020 summer intern and rising Baylor University senior majoring in Professional Selling, Entrepreneurship and International Business. Solution 1: Balanced Customer- and Market-Oriented Perspectives.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Dear Social Seller of 2015, Now that I've got your attention I must warn you. Where I'm going with this is that Trigger Event selling is a science irrespective of technological channel. Think of Twitter as the spokes, the amplification that used to be encapsulated as Direct Response Marketing or e-mail blasts. It's Google Glass.

Social Selling 66

Social Selling Call-back Up-Sell Ideal Customer Profile 66

Fill the Funnel

JANUARY 27, 2015

From the comments and questions coming at me in every presentation and broadcast I have done already this year, customer acquisition is the #1 goal for sales leaders in 2015. For the record – Email is still significantly more effective than all social media channels combined! Original article: Email Is Still The Powerhouse!

Social Media 48

Social Media Top of Funnel Face-to-face Twitter 48

Fill the Funnel

JANUARY 27, 2015

From the comments and questions coming at me in every presentation and broadcast I have done already this year, customer acquisition is the #1 goal for sales leaders in 2015. For the record – Email is still significantly more effective than all social media channels combined! Original article: Email Is Still The Powerhouse!

Social Media 48

Social Media Top of Funnel Face-to-face Twitter 48

Crunchbase

MAY 14, 2020

From SDR in 2015, to enterprise AE in 2020–and she’s gathered quite the following on LinkedIn. 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. Brooke Bachesta. SDR Manager at Outreach.io. Megan Bowen.

Top of Funnel 101

Top of Funnel Hiring Twitter Lead Rank 101

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

I have to beg your indulgence on this article. It’s an article about predictive and proscriptive analytics. Part of my reason is having just returned from Dreamforce 2015, as you would guess, a lot of the sessions talked about analytics. It even applies to us in sales and marketing.

Lead Rank 48

Lead Rank Analytics Marketing Qualified Lead Insurance 48

Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 6, 2015

This also is an opportunity to build a better sales team that will increase your market share as competitors lag. The following tactical program features 11 key sales and marketing management actions that will help your sales management approach take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime during the lifetime of this opportunity : .

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Sales Management Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Lead Rank 40

Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 14, 2015

By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Even in our recent 2015 CCS® Index, 50% of salespeople indicated cold calling as the least effective method of prospecting. Learn how to supplement the number of leads developed for them by Marketing.

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Prospecting InsideView How To Cold Calling 40

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2018

I got it for $600 and wrote the first few articles along with the recap posts from the previous conference. 2015: The Sales Stack Conference. In 2015 we ramped up. And in the Fall of 2015, we ran our first 1000 person Sales Stack conference. In 2017, we worked with over 100 vendors in the sales and marketing space.

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Conference Webinar Metrics Hiring Vendor 92

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 1, 2018

We live in a fast-paced, competitive digital landscape, and marketers are under constant pressure to make an immediate impact with every piece of content they create. But when it comes to content marketing success, content marketers must prioritize long-term strategy over short-term gains. Cover a broad range of topics.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Webinar Metrics Scale 200

Hubspot Sales

MAY 12, 2022

Social media accounts, websites, digital portfolios, blog articles, and the various ways you communicate all contribute to your unique identity and image. Creating a defined personal brand is a great way to distinguish yourself in today's competitive market because it lets people understand who you are, even when you're not in the room.

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Ideal Customer Profile LinkedIn Hiring Hubspot 136

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 19, 2018

First came Mobilegeddon in 2015, heralding the end of (desktop) days. As of a year ago, 57% of surveyed marketing and sales reps were not aware of GDPR or how it would impact them, and only 29% of organizations label their approach to data protection and organization as “mature.”. Mention any attempt to contact them via other channels.

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Prospecting Social Media Policies Vendor 82

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 31, 2017

As I started thinking about this topic for 2018, I looked at this article. The state of sales and marketing hasn’t changed. Blog post for December 31, 2016: It’s that time of year where blogs fill with predictions for sales and marketing for 2017. I originally wrote this on December 30, 2016. I never published it.

Face-to-face 48

Face-to-face Account Based Marketing ACT Exercises 48

Cience

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

According to AdStage , 68% of B2B marketers use in-person events for lead generation initiatives. CIENCE marketing managers are among that 68%. Senior Vice President and General Manager, American Express Meetings & Events, Issa Jouaneh predicted a boom in the event industry for 2019 after a tremendous slowdown as recently as 2015.

Lead Generation 40

Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 40

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A Vietnamese immigrant, dedicated mother, and seasoned technology executive, Hang Black has an extensive background in engineering, marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. Melissa Murillo is an award-winning and highly skilled sales leader with over a decade of experience in marketing and business development specializing in the IT channel.

Hiring 130

Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Lead Rank 130

Close.io

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

As Ezra Fishman, VP of Business Intelligence at Wistia says: When we let data drive our marketing, we all too often optimize for things that are easy to measure, not necessarily what matters most. It can also help you see when a competitor is taking a larger chunk of the market share and optimize your strategies to offset this.

Examples 82

Examples Top of Funnel Forecasting Lead Rank 82

Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2021

This is more than the 122 number from 2015, meaning workplace professionals are still very active in their inbox. Share a recent article they’ve written with their Twitter followers. Thankfully, with the help of marketing automation software, we can automate a lot of our work. This is more than the 3.8

Data 121

Data Social Media Scale Follow-up 121

Tony Hughes

MARCH 13, 2018

To win in 2015 you're going to have to go so old school and new school at the same time, applying a dizzying array of multi-disciplinary principles that will give you an invincible edge. While the whole world is blasting out white noise, start to leverage 'attraction' marketing and pull your dream customers to you. Flip the script.

Social Selling 63

Social Selling Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Top of Funnel 63

Sales Hacker

MAY 30, 2019

Markets across all industries are becoming more crowded. While Salesforce Ventures continues to invest heavily in the space, Salesforce’s last major acquisition was Steelbrick in December 2015. We are still in the early inning of the market and numerous emerging categories have been evolving. Click image to view in full size.

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