Product Management University

JULY 26, 2021

That REQUEST A DEMO button on your website is offering demos to anyone who wants to see your products. You’re on the hook to give them a demo, and if they want to play hardball, they’re not the least bit obligated to tell you why they’re interested. You’re getting a high volume of demo requests.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 3, 2020

Product demos are essential. Fortunately, the internet has made it easy to do demos without having to meet with leads in person. Since live virtual product demos are one of the best tools for closing deals remotely, you should take the time to get them right. Product demo webinars are not a one-size-fits-all solution.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Let’s take a closer look with some examples: Product datasheets.

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Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Or should demos be saved for later and have discovery focused only on…. Chorus’ advanced AI automatically recognizes the screen shares where reps are doing a product demo. Yes, you should demo during discovery. How long should I demo? The average product demo lasts for 29 mins and takes 79% of the meeting.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 30, 2022

We’re all familiar with the “four Ps” of marketing: product, price, promotion, and place. Privacy compliance has become an essential part of modern-day marketing. Even though the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in 2018, data collection and processing can still leave marketers feeling uncertain.

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Zoominfo

MAY 23, 2023

It’s enough to ruin any sales professional’s quarter: that prospect your team has spent months engaging — scheduling demos, addressing concerns, comparing features — suddenly decides they’re not ready to buy after all. You can’t stop every account from getting cold feet or misreading their company’s appetite for new solutions.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 26, 2019

The better you are at running demos, the faster your career grows in sales. To an untrained eye, a demo is a demo is a demo. Those sessions were the inspiration behind the new Sales Hacker video series called Demo-litions , powered by Replayz. Demo-litions by Sales Hacker fills that gap. Happy demoing!

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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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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2017

Email marketing is one of the most effective and efficient forms of marketing. Though not commonly used in logistics, email marketing has the potential to increase engagement and brand awareness amongst shippers, and can help your organization grow. Is it to get new customers? More business from existing customers?

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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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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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Smooth Sale

MARCH 10, 2024

Create the R ight C ontent for Y our A udience About 37% of experienced B2B marketers produce compelling sales content for their target audience. Informative awareness articles, for instance, can highlight specific product advantages and industry trends. Take things to the next level by targeting customers through multiple offers.

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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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Nutshell

JULY 22, 2020

Sales and marketing professionals are constantly slinging around new buzzwords, complex terms, and confusing abbreviations. Well, here’s another important term for you to memorize: the marketing flywheel. Well, here’s another important term for you to memorize: the marketing flywheel. What Is a Marketing Flywheel?

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Nutshell

JANUARY 30, 2020

Although typically perceived as software for salespeople, CRMs are the secret sauce behind most successful marketing initiatives. A CRM is an integral piece of software for marketers and salespeople. We’ve got your back, marketers! Newsletters are near the top of the marketing funnel. Skip Ahead: Newsletter distribution.

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Apptivo

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The pros and cons of sales automation and marketing automation. What’s the Difference: Sales Automation Vs Marketing Automation. As a business owner, one must use growth hacks to enhance sales and marketing procedures. So what exactly are sales automation and marketing automation? Summing up. How should you employ them?

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Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Advice about marketing a business online is rarely without a mention of content marketing, and for good reason. In an age where the consumer is more informed than ever before, the right content can be the difference between success and failure of marketing efforts. It is an arbitrary metric.

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Zendesk Sell

JANUARY 10, 2019

That’s where content marketing comes in. Before creating any bottom of the funnel content, talk with your sales department and have a content marketing strategy in place (and also outline how you will measure success). Blog articles. However, articles need to be written in the right way to convert readers.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 22, 2013

This blog is targeted to marketing leaders frustrated with leads being rejected by the sales force. There are two steps to evaluate why the field ignores/rejects marketing leads. Download the Sales & Marketing 10-Point Checklist to Lead Generation Alignment to evaluate with your peer in sales. Grading sales qualified leads.

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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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Allego

JUNE 2, 2022

This article originally appeared in Marketing Toolbox. The fully realized benefits of sales enablement require collaboration with other departments in an organization, especially marketing. The fully realized benefits of sales enablement require collaboration with other departments in an organization, especially marketing.

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Nutshell

JANUARY 9, 2024

Landing Pages helps streamline your digital marketing campaigns by making it easier to create and customize webpages, keep visitors engaged and generate more conversions. A landing page is a unique page on your website created for advertising or email marketing campaigns. Can I customize my landing pages for my marketing campaigns?

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Nutshell

JANUARY 9, 2024

Landing Pages helps streamline your digital marketing campaigns by making it easier to create and customize webpages, keep visitors engaged and generate more conversions. A landing page is a unique page on your website created for advertising or email marketing campaigns. Can I customize my landing pages for my marketing campaigns?

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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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Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: 11 Actionable Tips for Creating Growth-Focused SaaS Marketing Strategies. Gia Kessler provides our guest Blog, 11 Actionable Tips for Creating Growth-Focused SaaS Marketing Strategies. How can your SaaS brand survive an extremely competitive market? SaaS products are intangible.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 30, 2023

I’ve spent the last year working to find product-market fit for my startup, Dock. I’ve used our sales process to iterate our way to product market-fit and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way. But finding product-market fit is harder than it sounds. But it made finding product-market fit difficult.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 17, 2021

In addition to text-based articles, make sure you share visual content as well, such as images of your software, demo videos, and so on. Visual content can generate more engagement, shares, likes, and views than articles. However, their popularity has made the market more competitive.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 29, 2018

May 25, 2018 is a date on the minds of many sales and marketing professionals: the day the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect. General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679, April 27, 2016 (“GDPR”), Article 3.). Direct Marketing as a Legitimate Interest. Download a PDF of this document.

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Mereo

JUNE 29, 2023

Content marketing is an important strategy but can be challenging to master. On top of this, content marketing is notorious for consuming valuable resources. In fact, Forrester estimates that 65% of produced marketing assets go unused because they are irrelevant. What resources does your organization offer to aid these pains?

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Storytelling skills for product management and product marketing are essential because without them, the value context (why the market cares) of what you’re building, marketing and selling is completely masked. Take market requirements for example. Take market requirements for example. Related Articles.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Salespeople are in love with the demo - perhaps more than ever - and when you combine that with the following factors. Technology to demo online and on demand. But demos are like the 15 minutes of previews we see at movie theaters. My Blog has been nominated for best Sales & Marketing Blog. The Internet. Free trials.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

Ask any seasoned marketer and they’ll tell you that strong segmentation is the key ingredient to efficient, successful campaigns. Like other things in marketing, the answer can be found by focusing on your customer. For example, let’s say you sell marketing automation software. Let’s break it down.

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

This article puts the spotlight on what sales productivity means, why it’s crucial, and strategies you can employ to take your team’s productivity from 0 to 100 fast. Register for a live Nutshell demo to see what a world-class CRM can do for your sales team. What is sales productivity?

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Product Management University

APRIL 17, 2024

If you want to create a revenue plan with sales that gives you a more realistic chance of hitting your revenue targets, give some thought to a broader market strategy where each product plays a role versus a marketing plan for each product. If you’re in product marketing, you know all too well how this works.

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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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Nutshell

MARCH 8, 2023

In this article, we’re giving you the inside scoop on how CRMs impact marketing, sales, and customer service teams to help your business thrive. Get in touch with your friends at Nutshell today to start a free trial of our all-in-one CRM, or attend a live demo. But CRM does more than just support your customer service team.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Closing an enterprise sale in a niche market follows the same sales funnel as any other deal, but a bit more fine tuned. This contrasts with traditional sales, which typically are associated with shorter sales cycles, fewer stakeholders, and are managed by a sales and marketing department. Stay on top of market trends and news.

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