Babette Ten Haken

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

My friend and colleague, Anthony Iannarino, recently posted an excellent article about the alarming trend on social media – especially LinkedIn – of connecting. I reach out to connect to folks on LinkedIn, in particular, because I’ve met them in person. Recently, I received the following request to connect on LinkedIn.

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Product Management University

JULY 10, 2020

Here’s how to create business requirements that boost your marketing and sales proficiency. First, remember that the reasons you build new products and features are the same exact reasons the market buys them. Identify a business goal that’s common to target customers across one or more market segments.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Rather, how you go-to-market is a significant determinant of success. Instead, how you launch them into the market is a huge factor in success. Today, we’re diving straight into the details with product marketing leaders. Now organizations can customize demos at scale even easier. Start early! Show, don’t tell.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Don’t hide your B2B marketing talent. Many companies only bring out their technicians to do demos. And that makes them your hidden gem for B2B marketing. B2B marketing pro Trevor Young shares more of Edelman’s research in his post: “ Three BIG reasons your business should make rockstars of your internal experts.”

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Gong.io

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Here’s How Marketing Teams Can Win More With Revenue Intelligence. Specifically for marketing teams, Gong helps to: Hear the voice of the customer. Monitor how new messaging is landing in the field (Product Marketing teams). Marketing Workflow #1: Find relevant conversations to answer your questions. Marketing win.

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Fill the Funnel

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Been on LinkedIn for years? Digital Postcards by Storyquest is a fresh new tool that leverages all the hard work you have put into your LinkedIn Profile. It utilizes all the dominant marketing trends including: Video. It utilizes all the dominant marketing trends including: Video. If so, then this post is for you!

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 27, 2023

In this article, you’ll learn some positions you can consider in SaaS sales, expert tips for getting into the industry, and how to succeed in your first sales role. Because new software is being pushed into the market almost every day, the demand for SaaS sales professionals will only grow. Understand the target market.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 16, 2020

In this article, we’ll look at five sales follow-up tactics that will help you do just that. The standard, inbound-lead, follow-up cadence primarily consists of phone calls, email, and LinkedIn. For example: A Social Media Manager requests a demo of your social listening tool. 5 Tactics for Effective Sales Follow-Up in 2020.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 24, 2021

Whether you’re sales or marketing, putting out content is a never-ending task, a mountain with no peak. This article talks you, the reader, through ideation, creation, and then iteration of content. This article talks you, the reader, through ideation, creation, and then iteration of content. Content ideation. Educational?

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Top Sales & Marketing Awards 2011. Stored in Attitude , Awards , Business Acumen , Communication , Compete , Marketing , Sales Success , execution , qualifying. One for Top Sales & Marketing Blog , where I share the company of last year’s winner S. March 2008. February 2008. January 2008. December 2007. Dependability.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 22, 2020

We have product-qualified leads , marketing-qualified leads, sales-qualified leads, and many more. In this article, we’re going to look at: What are SALs, and why are they important? The leads are hot because Marketing spent time and energy aggressively qualifying and nurturing the leads. Let’s be real. How to generate SALs.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Marketing Qualified Lead 111

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Scott Galloway, a professor of marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business, states in his book, “Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity,” that the pandemic’s most enduring impact will be as an accelerant of dynamics that were already trending. Read Brennan's article here.). “If Take any trend?—?social, social, business or personal?—?

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Vengreso

JULY 10, 2018

Viveka von Rosen, Vengreso’s co-founder and Chief Visibility Officer, is back for an insightful second conversation about selling with video and the importance of using LinkedIn native video. Learn from @LinkedInExpert on how to #SellWithVideo and use LinkedIn native video on this episode of #SellingWithSocial hosted by @M_3Jr - Listen now!

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LinkedFusion

OCTOBER 11, 2023

However, there are now incredible opportunities to level the playing field with the introduction of social media websites such as LinkedIn and automation technologies. Content marketing, social media marketing, email marketing, and SEO are some of the strategies to get more customers to your business.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 10, 2021

Both Snapchat and Facebook added recruitment and job posting capabilities to their platforms in 2017, and LinkedIn has been a long-time platform for networking, job searching, and recruiting. Whether you want to work in product marketing , customer success, or sales, being able to create visual assets and speak to a wider audience is key.

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Product Management University

JULY 10, 2020

Here’s how to create business requirements that help product marketing and sales do a better job of positioning and selling value. First, remember that the reasons you build new products and features are the same exact reasons the market buys them. Related Articles. Zero difference! Context is the key.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 20, 2021

As pipelines shrank due to COVID-19, many organizations shifted from inbound to an account-based sales and marketing outreach approach. This article dives into the current state of ABM and how we need to rethink it to drive business forward in 2021. Feel free to jump ahead: What is account-based sales and marketing?

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As noted by my colleague Vince Koehler, Marketing has adopted new capabilities. These capabilities force Marketing to transition to new metrics for determining effectiveness. By registering for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review , you''ll get the “ Top 15 Metrics to Track in 2014.” Social Reach. That’s a 5x bump.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 28, 2014

This is the 10th article in a January series on the Architecture of the Sales Force. Marketing and Sales Feedback Loop Can Help You Grow. Earlier this month, I wrote this article about Sales Methodology and today''s article focuses on successful Sales Models. I previously wrote this article about sales models in 2011.

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Lead Rank Sales Methodology Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 240

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Offer consultations via LinkedIn. Over the last 10 years, inbound marketing has proven to be a great way to generate leads and acquire customers and help you hit your quota. But what if you don’t have a marketing department or your marketing team doesn’t practice inbound? Get referrals from current customers. Write blogs.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I know thousands of sales people will be forwarding this article to their managers, saying, “This guy says outbound is dying, I don’t need to do more prospecting!” I have another marketer that has gone through his sequences (he apparently has a sequence of 6), 20 times in the past 90 days.

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Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In this article we gathered the most recent social selling statistics, break down what they mean to B2B sales reps, and explore what skills sales reps need to succeed, post pandemic. . In B2B social selling, posting product information, and linking to a demo sign-up page, typically generates a conversion rate close to zero.

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Crunchbase

MARCH 19, 2021

This article is part of the Crunchbase Community Contributor Series. Please note that the author is not employed by Crunchbase and the opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect official views or opinions of Crunchbase, Inc. . What is a marketing qualified lead? How to identify a quality MQL.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In doing so, buyers see your reps as trusted advisors who cut through all of the information in the market to help them find the best solution. This article will cover how you can implement value selling into your processes and close bigger deals. This is one of the major ways that value selling differs from solution selling.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 19, 2018

Would you be so kind as to tell me who’s responsible for marketing competitive intelligence and how I might get in touch with them? So, unless you find a different director or manager responsible for a section -- like a content marketing manager or social media manager) -- confidently reach out to the CEO. Regards, [Lazy Salesperson].

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 4, 2020

If you’re the first sales rep at a startup — or one of them — you’ll be responsible for helping the founders acquire the company’s first customers, establish a system to sales, and achieve wins in an initial niche market. For example: Use a voice memos app to record a live demo with a customer. Transcribe it, and voila! Get used to it.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 14, 2015

His organization is a marketing and product machine. Today, Social Selling (like blogging, LinkedIn, Twitter and others) is all the rage. Would you like to start sharing articles, asking questions, and commenting on LinkedIn or Twitter? He started blogging when blogging wasn''t cool. It''s coming - no doubt about it.

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The Pipeline

APRIL 15, 2011

How Marketing Can Help Sales After the Handoff. Stored in Attitude , Communication , Guest Post , Lead Management , Marketing , Reputation 2.0 , execution. Marketing and Sales become unified around one process, instead of each focusing only on their respective ends of the revenue pipeline. March 2008. February 2008.

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Allego

JUNE 2, 2020

The Market Leader for Virtual Learning and Readiness Solutions. It also shows off our marketing-leading platform with eye-catching screenshots featured throughout. Whether you read a blog post, download an asset, or request a demo, we have fresh content we hope will keep you coming back for more. Take a Tour of Our New Site.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Let’s hear from two experienced go-to-market leaders who have “been there done that” at some of the best PLG companies in SaaS. Mark Ghiasy , Head of Revenue & Growth If the product marketing is spot on, and there is good top of funnel traffic, free and paid sign ups will happen naturally.

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Highspot

JULY 6, 2023

Becoming a good salesperson involves much more than simply knowing your product; it’s a rich blend of product and market expertise, meaningful dialogue, solution-based selling, and emotional intelligence. Look at this article to see if your sales team’s performance is on par with peers.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The Revenue Summit is the only conference with a true focus on aligning sales, marketing and customer success through the lens of technology, empowering B2B leaders to accelerate full funnel growth. Justin Shriber – VP of Marketing, LinkedIn Sales & Marketing Solutions. Contact – marketing@saleshacker.com.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 1, 2021

For the purposes of this article, I†ll be talking about tools that are popular in sales environments. Who currently have job openings for marketing help. To close more business in less time, you need to be aware of the best sales and marketing tools that are out there. LinkedIn (specifically Sales Navigator).

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Chris was an early Gong guy (Nov ‘16 start date) where he’s served as the Senior Director of Product Marketing followed by the Head of Sales for Existing Accounts. If you look on the Gong blog , you will likely bump into many articles he’s written. On LinkedIn, John’s mission is to help elevate the profession of sales.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 1, 2022

Buyers are savvy: Most can see the difference between a sales email crafted after some quick LinkedIn research versus an email from someone who genuinely believe they’re offering a solution. Sync with your marketing team — they’ll hook you up. Put care into your demo. Not sure what your brand colors or logo are?

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Igniting Sales Transformation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

It could be a marketing interaction, and more often, that first touch starts with someone on the front lines of your sales organization. That touch could be a phone call, email, an in-person meeting at a business event or a LinkedIn connection request. The experience begins with the very first interaction someone has with your company.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 16, 2013

For me, it began two months ago when I posted, Now That You Have a Sales Process, Never Mind, in rebuttal to a stupid article about sales process being the cause of long sales cycles and low closing ratios. Then, in response to those who are proponents of demo-based selling, I posted, We''re Back to AIDA and You Should be Scared.

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