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Sales is Storytelling. Marketing is Storytelling. Business is Storytelling.

Sales and Marketing Management

Managers of sales and marketing teams are charged with coaching up individual team members, enhancing their skill sets and improving overall team performance. Do you need to develop or sharpen your team’s analytics skills? Get them proficient with more marketing technologies? But where to begin? Stories get a revival.

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4 Trends Shaping B2B Marketing in 2011

Pointclear

As an editor and marketer, I spend a lot of time thinking about the “how to”—in other words, how to translate the best and more interesting marketing ideas into truly actionable steps for organizations looking to grow their business. In other words: B2B marketers + social = lots of room for improvement.

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The Perils of Piecemeal

Cincom Smart Selling

Smart companies don’t have software initiatives; they have business initiatives that drive software purchases. Workflow, dashboards, reporting, analytics … if you piecemeal IT solutions, you’ll eventually replicate many of these functions. It also has a marketing module to help dealer offices. How smart are you?

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The Future of AI for Sales (And How to Prepare for It)

Sales Hacker

Marketers have been much quicker to jump on the tech-adoption bandwagon. For instance, marketing language software — powered by machine learning — helped JPMorgan Chase increase headline clicks by as much as 450%. Sales and marketing have always had different ways of approaching the same problems. AI does have its limits though.

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Drowning In Information, But Where’s The Knowledge Or Insight

Partners in Excellence

On top of all these tools I leverage, I have a number of Google Alerts set up to keep me updated with key things happening with industries, markets, or with people I’m tracking. I just got my first “SMART Company Brief” from DecisionLink. But the issue comes up, what do I do with all of this information?