Close.io

JULY 8, 2019

But if you think your sales team can do more, welcome. This is the ultimate guide to sales cycles (also known as sales life cycles). The sales cycle, in a way, is the heart of your company. Here's what's in store: What is a sales cycle? 7 reasons why you need a sales cycle.

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Pipeliner

DECEMBER 13, 2022

CRM software: A customer relationship management tool that integrates sales activities with other departments, like marketing, so everyone stays on track with what needs to be done step-by-step without getting off track. Customer experience is one of the key factors for sales. This can help increase your sales.

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Crunchbase

AUGUST 18, 2022

It’s no secret that the shift to digital has forever changed the sales cycle as we know it. The digital sales cycle has evolved to become more targeted and insights-driven. This is a pivotal step in the sales cycle, as there are more stakeholders involved. Search less. Close more.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 25, 2014

Especially this Friday when you get my powerful rant below, as well as two bonus articles! The Selling Power Blog has my new article on why consultative selling is so difficult. And over at Top Sales World , my article on the premature announcement that SPIN Selling is dead is one of the top 10 articles for last week.

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Most retail brands have a sales cycle in place, but the events of 2020 have impacted the way the cycle works. Ensuring that prospects travel through the cycle to the point where they not only make purchases but become advocates for the brand has now become even more important. Step 1: Prospecting.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 31, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I wrote an article for the Sales Blog over at Hubspot on how Inbound Marketing has really been around, like, forever. The article was about who should be your first sales hire. This issue also announces a Top Sales Contest for Salespeople.

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PandaDoc

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sales leaders who want to maximize the effectiveness of their sales process and keep up with their competitors use sales battle cards to identify customer pain points and gain valuable market insights. If you’re a sales professional, you know that any increase in conversions is worth pursuing.

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SalesHandy

APRIL 1, 2020

Some of the best performing Sales teams worldwide profoundly understand and master their Sales cycles. In the book Cracking the Sales Management Code , author Jason Jordan’s research shows that companies with Sales processes bring in 18% more revenue. What is a Sales Cycle? What is a Sales Cycle?

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LeadFuze

JANUARY 1, 2022

The first thing we need to understand is what a sales cycle looks like and the different steps that it contains. In here, we will discuss the sales cycle definition, stages, and strategies for accelerating sales. Need Help Automating Your Sales Prospecting Process? Sales Cycle Definition.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 19, 2021

Landing pages have a vital, singular purpose — encouraging visitors to begin the sales cycle with a brand. Digital marketers invest in creating landing pages because of their higher conversion rates. Let’s get into the importance of landing page content marketing, and how to build them for your digital marketing strategy.

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Close.io

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In this post, we look back at the sales posts and topics that sparked the most engagement in 2019. This year we saw even more physical and software subscription services emerge, increasing competition in already aggressive markets. The most common sales objections including detailed analysis and ways to counter each one.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 26, 2018

The differences between B2B marketing and B2C marketing run deep. These differences range from price point to length of sales cycle, to key buying motivators, and beyond. Today we’re putting our differences aside because we believe, there’s a lot B2B marketers can learn from their B2C counterparts. Keep reading!

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Corporate Visions

AUGUST 13, 2020

The post Why is Most B2B Marketing So Forgettable? Every marketer wants to make an impact. Today, with 80 percent of the sales cycle happening in digital or remote settings, you’ve never had a greater opportunity to directly influence buying decisions. What makes most marketing content so woefully forgettable?

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SBI Growth

MAY 28, 2013

B2B Chief Marketing Officers are enthusiastic about sharing tangible results. There is a strong desire to connect marketing spend to revenue. Lead Generation is the surest way to drive tangible return on marketing investment. The decks show a healthy growth curve of leads being generated for Sales. Today’s Status Quo.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As sales cycles lengthen and new logo acquisitions become more challenging, more organizations are now shifting back to their existing customer base for revenue growth.

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Apptivo

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

What is marketing funnel 4. How to create a marketing funnel 5. Why do businesses need marketing funnel 6. Footnotes You’ve probably heard a lot of people refer to the sales funnel or the marketing funnel. The idea of a funnel could be strange or perplexing to you if you’re new to marketing.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

For many companies, customer marketing remains an untapped driver of growth , yet it is often overlooked in favor of new logo acquisitions.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Here’s a recap of the best sales articles from 2018 from Sales Hacker! With 2019 is right on the horizon, I’m taking this as an opportunity to look back at the kickass year we had at Sales Hacker. The 18 best sales articles of 2018 from Sales Hacker. With an average of 6.8 Notable Stats.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If there’s one market trend that’s been stressed repeatedly in more recent SBI research findings, it’s that many CEOs have been noticing a dip in commercial productivity, with sales cycles getting gradually longer. This poses a difficult challenge to CEOs: How do we do more with less?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

SaaS companies, who often have complex sales cycles coupled with small but agile sales teams, can especially benefit from lead scoring, since it allows small teams to punch well above their weight class. Draw data from all departments (not just sales). Meeting with sales and marketing?

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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. It represents the culmination of ‘art’ and process, where the enterprise sales process is modified to better reflect the client’s unique and specific needs. Mastering The Enterprise Sales Cycle.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 12, 2024

The interactive podbook below contains videos, audio, articles, summaries, transcripts, and YouTube shorts from this podcast episode. Conclusion Ryan Thomas, sales VP of Elastic, Americas, imparted valuable insights on effective leadership and closing the gap between knowledge and action.

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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. Sales collaboration dramatically improves results, but bringing it to fruition can be more complex than it sounds.

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Corporate Visions

AUGUST 6, 2020

The post Marketing is Moving Further Down the Sales Funnel by Leslie Talbot appeared first on Corporate Visions. If you’re a marketer, you’re responsible for more of the buying journey than ever before. The Evolving Role of Marketing. And that means owning an even bigger chunk of the sales process. The problem?

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

I’ve heard a lot of talk about “ Content Marketing.” It gets great reviews from C-Level executives, marketers and even sales managers. But how does Content Marketing help the Sales Rep? Today’s post outlines the benefits of Content Marketing from the Sales Rep’s perspective. This is the Problem.

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Mindtickle

JANUARY 3, 2024

Generic, one-size-fits-all marketing no longer works. But often, organizations struggle to deliver marketing that resonates with buyers. That’s where marketing enablement comes in. In this post, we’ll explore what marketing enablement is, why it’s important, and how it differs from sales enablement.

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Crunchbase

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Lead nurturing is widely recognized as a valuable marketing technique that can help teams drive an increase in sales. Implementing a successful lead-nurturing plan can significantly influence your marketing campaign’s outcomes, as well as customer loyalty, retention, revenue and more. Search less. Close more. Search less.

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Janek Performance Group

JULY 19, 2023

‍The success of any business largely depends on the ability of sales and marketing teams to work together effectively. This connection must be deeper than the marketing department providing sales reps with brochures and PDF attachments. Marketing departments can also create customer personas.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In this three-part series, the first article on marketing analytics looked at predictive targeting best practices, and the second article cited two sales lead generation programs to show how these processes actually drive improved results. Sales lead rates decline after the fifth contact cycle.

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SBI Growth

MAY 19, 2013

Why should the CMO or VP of Marketing care about retargeting? You’re the one who explains why marketing is not supplying enough leads to sales. Is your marketing team bringing back 98% of the visitors for another shot? Looking to increase the number of leads marketing supplies to sales?

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, thanks to technological advancements, predicting customer behavior has become a reality—and it’s changed the face of marketing forever. When applied to sales and marketing, predictive analytics forecasts companies most likely to buy or take future action relevant to your business. What is Predictive Intelligence?

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Zoominfo

MAY 27, 2021

Imagine, however, that on top of having access to a universe of sales and marketing data, you could sift through it all quickly to zero in on just those in-market prospects on the hunt for a solution like yours — actively doing more research online for a problem that you can solve. That’d be something. Pretty cool, right?

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Pointclear

MARCH 12, 2013

I had the great the opportunity to interview Lori Wizdo , B2B marketing analyst at Forrester Research. Lori is a senior analyst with extensive marketing, sales, and operation experience in the information systems and software industries. Some sales professionals even believe that they can't get qualified leads from marketing.

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SBI

MAY 28, 2020

Seismic Spring 2020 Release Enhances Sales & Marketing Teams’ Ability to Work Remotely. San Diego, CA (May 28, 2020): Seismic, the industry-leading and award-winning sales enablement platform provider, today announced enhancements to its Seismic Storytelling Platform. Being awarded an Inc. About Seismic.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Each month we publish a list of our five favorite articles that we’ve contributed for outside publications. This month we focus on the marketing technology stack, the power of direct dials, productivity myths, SEO, and more! Investing In Marketing Technology: 7 Key Considerations. B2B marketing often gets a bad rap.

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Allego

JUNE 2, 2022

This article originally appeared in Marketing Toolbox. Sales enablement, the ongoing process of providing reps with the training, content, and tools they need to sell effectively, is often thought to be a function exclusively owned and operated by sales teams. But this isn’t true. Here are three ways they can do this: 1.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 13, 2018

Marketers use buyer personas to inform every piece of their marketing strategy and ultimately generate more revenue for their respective companies. 36% of companies have created shorter sales cycles using personas. We hope you use it to create your own personas and scale your marketing efforts.

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