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Prognostications And Wild Ass Guesses For 2015

Partners in Excellence

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. While there’s some variance, I tend to see the following: Sales Training. Systems/Processes/Tools. Sales Automation/Tools. Recruiting/Onboarding.

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TSE 1327: Use virtual tools to do more, in less time, with better outcomes

Sales Evangelist

Use virtual tools to do more, in less time, with better outcomes Out of necessity, we are moving into a digital world in which almost every step of the sales process involves the use of virtual tools. Jeb Blount has been doing virtual sales since 2015. This frees up time to manage other activities in the sales process.

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Why Engaging Buying Committees is Your Key to 2015 Sales Success

The ROI Guy

Here are our recommendations on how you can connect and engage more decision makers to achieve sales success in 2015 and beyond: 1. Jill Konrath in her popular sales blog outlines a formula that heavily uses LinkedIn as a tool: [link]. Again, LinkedIn is a great tool for this.

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Frugalnomics in Effect - Gartner predicts 5.5% decline in IT spending for 2015

The ROI Guy

Unfortunately this follows a pattern, where Gartner publishes overly optimistic growth forecasts to kickoff the New Year, and downward revisions from there on out. So how do you end up in the winnder’s circle? - You need to factor Frugalnomics prominently into your sales and marketing strategies and investments. increase for the year.

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57 Essential Multichannel Marketing Statistics

Zoominfo

Think about it, the internet has given modern buyers an expansive list of options to choose from—what brands they buy from, what content they consume, which products they purchase, what channels they use, and so much more. These channels can range from a brick-and-mortar storefront to a company website to a text messaging app.

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ZoomInfo x Bain: 10 Insights From Our CMO Event

Zoominfo

Some attempt to go after every customer imaginable and completely lose focus, while others freeze up and decide to do nothing. For each play, these teams create a standard bill of materials that includes the following: What’s the mission of the play? They implement aggressive cost-cutting strategies and initiate layoffs.

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How CRM Lost It’s Social … and How It Gets It Back!

Adaptive Business Services

As far back as 2010 (maybe even earlier), I was writing quite a bit about how CRM was not addressing the fact that people were now connecting, conversing, and developing relationships on the new social channels. I am of the opinion that the promise of social media will inevitably be crushed by its own weight as a selling tool.

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