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To Chatbot or Not to Chatbot for B2B Lead Generation?

Cience

Think for a moment about chatbots for B2B lead generation … What do you feel? Or should you spend your time and money in order to finally adopt Conversational Marketing , dive in with technology and stand out in a sea of rivals? In today’s article, we’ll examine the pros and cons of chatbots for B2B lead generation.

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Thank You

No More Cold Calling

To express my gratitude and celebrate this milestone, I am offering my No More Cold Calling book for 99 cents from the Kindle store for one day only: April 14, 2016. Then they write and tell me their sales organizations have been transformed, with a close rate of well more than 50 percent. But sales reps have work to do as well.

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Misconceptions Matter: August Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

Rather, it’s a step, an action, a conversation missed earlier in the sales process. If you believe that video is the end-all, be-all for sales training and content marketing, you’re mistaken. Then why do so many account based sales reps overlook critical sales activities that occur earlier in the sales process?

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12 Key Benefits CRM Systems Provide to a Business

Hubspot Sales

This way, your team members will always maintain a clear idea of how to position outreach for each segment, increasing the probability of conversion. Create sales reports. CRMs allow your team to collect and organize data about prospects and deals using reporting features such as sales dashboards and reports.

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Excuses Don’t Count: December Referral Selling Insights

Pipeliner

Only a little more than half of account based sales reps made quota in 2016, according to CSO Insights. Based on what I’ve heard from sales leaders, 2017 wasn’t much better. There are many possible reasons that account based sales reps miss quota. Perhaps they: Depended on marketing to send them qualified sales leads.

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6 sales metrics that managers should watch on a daily basis (and 4 more worth keeping an eye on)

Nutshell

As a sales manager, you know your team’s strengths and weaknesses better than anyone. That being said, an effective sales manager doesn’t rely on intuition alone when deciding how to increase productivity. They analyze metrics over time in order to learn how to best support their team and fine-tune their sales process.

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The Top Ten Changes In Sales Over The Past Ten Years

Bernadette McClelland

Being able to have conversations that are not about our products is a huge shift that many salespeople from a few years ago are finding difficult to adapt, and therefore finding themselves completely out of sync and also relevance. Today though, our buyers know more than us in many cases, and they now come to the table holding the cards.