The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Many in sales believe that there will be no action by a buyer unless there is a compelling event. The challenge is that any given point in time, at best about 10% of your B2B market has a compelling event, these are Actively looking buyers, what we like to call the “57 percenters!” By Tibor Shanto.

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Allego

APRIL 14, 2021

The era of rep-centric sales enablement has arrived—and it couldn’t have come at a better time. With the uncertain economy, the rise in remote teams due to the pandemic, and tightening budgets, it’s more important than ever for companies to equip their sales teams to produce at the highest level. The Downside of One-Size-Fits-All.

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Babette Ten Haken

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

1st LinkedIn message] Hi Babette, I understand you’re the author of Sales Aerobics for Engineers Blog. I’m working on groundbreaking XXX technology for B2B sales and marketing. You seem like a thought leader interested in learning about ways to improve B2B sales and marketing and I’m trying to get the word out.

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Bernadette McClelland

AUGUST 17, 2016

Americans thrive on the sales culture with conferences, think tanks, forums and the like. Even the UK and Europe have their own culture of extracurricular sales environments. (I And when I first hung out my shingle, my mentor at the time asked me, ‘Why Sales?’

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Zoominfo

JULY 28, 2020

Putting together a B2B marketing team kind of feels like assembling a superhero group. An essential step towards building this powerful pack is recognizing which areas in your marketing structure currently come up short. to marketing team structure. Marketing team structure by audience segments.

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Pipeliner

MARCH 26, 2021

Trust is such a vital part of sales, but sales leaders and salespeople still struggle to recognize and fully understand it. Moeed Amin is a Director and Founder at Proverbial Door, helping B2B sales professionals to increase their conversion rates and SME owners to scale their businesses. Trust in Sales.

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A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2016

ABM, Account Based Marketing, we’ve all heard about it. (If Sure, there are elements of ABM that smart B2B practitioners have been doing for years. Here are 5 tactics you can use right now to close larger deals with Account Based Marketing and Sales Development. It’s the new big thing. Or maybe it’s not.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Putting together a B2B marketing team kind of feels like assembling a superhero group. An essential step towards building this powerful pack is recognizing which areas in your marketing structure currently come up short. to marketing team structure. The concept mostly lends itself to larger enterprise marketing teams.

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Babette Ten Haken

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Babette Ten Haken’s One Millimeter Mindset speaking programs showcase how collaboration catalyzes purposeful personal development and business growth in today’s digitally transforming B2B and B2C environments. She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association. is available on Amazon.com.

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 3, 2010

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. 5 Direct Sales Activities that Lead to Sales Success? 7 More Sales Core Competencies. 7 More Sales Core Competencies. What’s Your Funniest Sales Story Ever?

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Babette Ten Haken

MAY 23, 2018

This phrase often refers to business-to-consumer (B2C) marketing activities, including retail spaces created for specific customer niches. However, let’s talk about the impact of customer micro experience specialists in business-to-business (B2B) interactions. She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association.

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Babette Ten Haken

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Babette Ten Haken’s One Millimeter Mindset speaking programs showcase how collaboration catalyzes purposeful personal development and business growth in today’s digitally transforming B2B and B2C environments. She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association. is available on Amazon.com.

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Babette Ten Haken

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Babette Ten Haken’s One Millimeter Mindset speaking programs showcase how collaboration catalyzes purposeful personal development and business growth in today’s digitally transforming B2B and B2C environments. She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association. is available on Amazon.com.

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Anthony Iannarino

JANUARY 16, 2020

Your marketing department provides you with a slide deck outlining what is changing in your client’s world as a way to start a conversation with your dream client. If you want to improve your results in B2B sales, you need to understand the importance of developing your perspective. You have to have depth, gravitas.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 15, 2020

If you’ve spent the last quarter preparing for the remainder of the year by overhauling your Go-To-Market function and redesigning your coverage plan, you’re not alone. But how do you make sure your optimal coverage plan serves the needs of.

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Product Management University

MARCH 14, 2017

Delivering, marketing and selling products in B2B is a contact sport in many ways. Without a portfolio strategist, the injury you’re most likely to sustain is an overabundance of disjointed one-off development projects to satisfy the next big sales opportunity or unhappy customer. The Protective Pad: Solutions Marketing.

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Product Management University

MARCH 15, 2017

business analyst, subject matter expert (SME) or agile product owner more critical than it has ever been, yet many organizations still insist on combining it with the product manager role. They are the glue between product management and engineering that translate market needs into product solutions. Rarely do the two go hand in hand.

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LeadFuze

JUNE 7, 2021

What are Sales Training Programs. Sales training programs are any type of formal or informal training that helps employees sell more effectively. For instance, a sales training program might teach you about the science of buying, how to ask questions to better understand your prospects’ needs and wants, or ways that people buy.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Your sales team is constantly under the watch of the Executive Team and Board of Directors; however, their priorities aren’t necessarily coordinated. Your obligations as a Revenue Operations leader are under constant pressure. The lack of clarity from the top.

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Sales Hacker Training

JANUARY 5, 2021

Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. How the role of sales development has changed [13:10]. Keeping new sales professionals focused on the mission [18:44]. Sam Jacobs: This week on the show, we’ve got Kata Nyitrai , head of global sales development for Meero, a fast-growing company in Europe. We’re on iTunes.

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Allego

JULY 17, 2023

For years, we’ve talked about sales enablement and how enablement can help sales teams sell more. What sales content do teams need? It includes everyone who plays a role in helping to generate revenue for the business: sales, marketing, enablement, HR, and customer success. Change has come to enablement.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

With about a third of all opportunities going into B2B pipelines ending in no decision, the reality is that about a third of the time the square they end up in is the one they started in. I was talking to someone selling specialized ERP, and he was saying that this is only 5% of his market at any given time, small.

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OnePageCRM

MARCH 8, 2017

There’s an old joke in sales about selling products at a loss but making it up on volume. A common complaint from sales teams is: we can outcompete and make more sales simply by reducing prices. Convertkit uses simple straightforward tiers based on subscriber volume for their email marketing automation platform.

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Discount Lead Rank Top of Funnel Enterprise 55

Mindtickle

MARCH 1, 2024

Focusing on enterprise sales can be a great way to grow your revenue. After all, enterprise sales drive a lot of value. Adding those big logos to your customer roster is a great way to build credibility and grow sales. Sales reps going after enterprise deals must be ready to navigate complex selling scenarios.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women in sales often have a polarizing experience. In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world.

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Though the article is now a quarter of a century old, the sentiment has never been more true – especially for sales organizations. There’s no doubt sales content is a key ingredient of sales readiness and selling success. Virtually every sales enabler and marketer spends a lot of time creating content to support the sales team.

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OnePageCRM

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As OnePageCRM, came highly recommended by a friend they were confident it would be a good match for their sales process. Emma-Jane McLennan – Marketing and Communications Manager, OneLaw. They identified a niche in the market for a simple to use, low administration legal practice management system. Emma-Jane McLennan.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In spite of GDPR, in the face of market turmoil, and despite an increasingly complicated tech stack, this year has shown us that high tides really do lift all boats. GDPR for Sales and Marketing. Our more specific follow-up blog was a hit, too: Keep Calm and GDPR on: How Marketers Can Comply with GDPR.

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Intent Data Intent SME Hiring 120

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

What happens when a Global Head of Sales, an Inside Sales Director, and an Account Executive walk into a bar? They sit around a table and share actionable insights about their company’s transition from SMB to enterprise sales. . Why they restructured their B2B sales team into three key verticals. Mid-market.

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Though the article is now a quarter of a century old, the sentiment has never been more true – especially for sales organizations. There’s no doubt sales content is a key ingredient of sales readiness and selling success. Virtually every sales enabler and marketer spends a lot of time creating content to support the sales team.

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Anthony Iannarino

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

It’s a new time and the evolution of sales means that things just keep getting trickier, so you got to keep pace here. He was a marketing professor there and he said, “People don’t buy drills, they buy holes. So you come in and you start talking about these are the things that we’re observing happening in the market right now.

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OnePageCRM

MARCH 8, 2017

There’s an old joke in sales about selling products at a loss but making it up on volume. A common complaint from sales teams is: we can outcompete and make more sales simply by reducing prices. Convertkit uses simple straightforward tiers based on subscriber volume for their email marketing automation platform.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 5, 2011

A Demand-Gen Report interview with Thomas Pisello, The ROI Guy, Chairman & Founder of diagnostic / ROI sales tool provider Alinean Inc. Can you speak to how the changing buyer has increased the need for sophisticated sales enablement solutions? First, today’s B2B buyer is more empowered than ever before.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 21, 2010

Leading B2B solution providers recognize that old sales and marketing techniques need to evolve to meet these new buyer demands. Did the Alinean Business Value Tools drive incremental sales, reduce sales cycles, increase deal size, generate more demand, and improve sales / consulting productivity as anticipated?

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 13, 2018

It's being done right now in the field by a sales team near you [perhaps a competitor], it's remarkable and it's not for the faint of heart. Just reading Jonathan Farrington's statistic that, 'the average quota attainment in B2B sales is below 60%,' prompts me to lay out a blueprint on how to fix it. Flip the script.

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