Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

And it makes a lot of sense — we’re more engaged when we hear stories, because a story puts your whole brain to work. Why Is B2B Brand Development Important? B2B buyers are people with emotions, who largely rely on their first impressions to make decisions — decisions like purchasing a B2B product/service.

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Showpad

MAY 7, 2020

You may already have a sales enablement program, initiative or function at your organization. If your enablement initiative drives sales results as expected, you don’t need to read this article. Myth #1: Sales enablement only adds more layers to and complicates tasks previously accomplished elsewhere.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 5, 2021

Among many takeaways — about sales enablement , forecasting , hiring , and more — one thing was certain: Sales has changed a lot since the pandemic began. We’re seeing more meetings per closed-win and more buyer-side focus on how a product will immediately provide ROI.

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Sales Enablement Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel Strategy 100

Sales Hacker

JUNE 23, 2021

There’s more sales content than ever before – how do you sort through the noise? Since we deal with sales content on the daily, we thought we’d save you some time. Here are the seven best sales blogs (and five bonus sales newsletters!) Sales Hacker. Topics and discussion channels include: Sales management.

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Top of Funnel Webinar Metrics Hubspot Cold Calling 79

Vengreso

JANUARY 28, 2022

Sales engagement is all about connecting with your potential customer or prospects to build a relationship and hopefully move them closer to wanting to buy from you. These days, a lot of sales engagement happens through social media, as more and more of your target audience is using social platforms in their everyday lives.

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Examples Strategy Lead Rank Lead Scoring 123

Crunchbase

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Let’s be honest: Buyers prefer to purchase from companies that understand them and their needs. According to research by Salesforce, 84% of business buyers are more likely to make a purchase from sales reps who truly understand their goals. Get a feel for the prospect’s website, blog, social media and company history.

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Consultative Selling Decision Maker Sales Enablement Education 98

Vengreso

MARCH 23, 2021

Sales engagement is all about connecting with your potential customer. These days, a lot of sales engagement happens through social media, which makes it easy to track. By supporting their sales team with the right analytics and platforms, sales leaders can improve sales engagement to grow the sales pipeline.

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VanillaSoft Social Media Sales Methodology Sales Enablement 119

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Zachary Ballenger As a marketer, one of your primary goals is to set your sales team up for success. One way to do this is by providing them with the killer content they need to successfully engage with your buyers. That’s why podcasts are the perfect solution to your problem. . Think about it.

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Buyer B2B Account Based Marketing Collateral 136

Zoominfo

JULY 4, 2018

As social media platforms grew in popularity, businesses began to recognize how essential social media is to the sales process. 62% of employees at large companies say social selling enables them to build stronger, more authentic relationships with customers and prospects. Social Selling Mistake #1: Leading with a sales pitch.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. Today, as much as 80% of B2B decision-makers prefer remote or even fully self-serve sales interactions. Why Invest in B2B Lead Generation?

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Allego

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This blog post originally appeared on the Training Industry website. This is especially true for sales teams dealing with evolving products, shifting markets and dynamic customer preferences. Customized Learning Everboarding caters to an employee’s specific training needs with a customized curriculum. Probably not much.

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Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Having a well-defined go-to-market (GTM) strategy is crucial for the success of any product or service. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that 20% of new businesses fail during the first two years, but why? A successful GTM strategy involves a series of coordinated steps aimed at bringing a new product to market effectively.

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Strategy Marketing Distribution Sales Enablement 52

Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Having a well-defined go-to-market (GTM) strategy is crucial for the success of any product or service. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that 20% of new businesses fail during the first two years, but why? A successful GTM strategy involves a series of coordinated steps aimed at bringing a new product to market effectively.

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Strategy Marketing Distribution Sales Enablement 52

Highspot

OCTOBER 13, 2020

But in organizations with sales enablement teams, confusion can sometimes arise from questions about which team owns content creation, delivers guidance to reps, and coaches teams to work together effectively. What is the difference between sales enablement and content marketing?

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Top of Funnel Sales Enablement Marketing eBook 96

Vengreso

JULY 20, 2023

Being a sales superstar requires more than just knowing the key benefits and features of the product or services that you’re selling. So, let’s consider the question: what makes a great salesperson consistently achieve success? Why Is it Good To Have A Positive Mindset in #Sales?

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Positioning Coaching Up-Sell Sales Coaching 105

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2021

Newsflash: buyer personas are useless. First, how does the knowledge that Terry is married and loves eating Smarties help your reps make a sale? Or any of the other buyer personas you so carefully put together? Now that we’ve got your attention, we can come clean: buyer personas aren’t really useless.

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Buyer Persona Top of Funnel Buyer Outsourcing Services 112

Highspot

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In a matter of months, B2B sales moved from regarding digital transformation as “forced” to seeing that digitized selling is not only here to stay, but the way to go. McKinsey found that more than 75% of buyers now prefer digital self-serve and remote human engagement over face-to-face interactions.

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Face-to-face Scale Analytics Buyer 119

BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The sales profession isn’t what it used to be. Today’s sellers are dealing with the high expectations of savvy B2B buyers, decision-by-committee, disruptive technology, M&A, product innovations… and more. Reps need to know A LOT to be at their best in front of buyers, but has your sales training strategy kept up with the times?

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Training Hiring Objections Coaching 62

Apptivo

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Who is a buyer and who is a customer? And, when and how does a buyer become a customer? The difference is, with the first sale, the business has got a buyer, and when the business makes the buyer come back and buy more, they have got themselves a customer. Why is lifecycle marketing crucial to scale any business?

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Marketing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Campaigns 98

Highspot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Why do so many products entering a new market fail? By putting together an all-star go-to-market team, you can ensure that you are set up for success. Structure this team correctly and you’ll be able to feed your sales reps qualified leads both before and after the launch. At the same time, almost 95% of them tend to fail.

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Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Marketing 52

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 19, 2018

There’s a lot to think about when developing an annual sales plan to support your organization’s strategy and objectives: new customer acquisition, customer retention, increasing share of wallet, resource budgeting … just to name a few. But don’t forget about your sales territory plan. Expand with a Win/Loss SWOT.

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Territories Outsourcing Services Ideal Customer Profile Buyer 181

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

” As we, sellers, look at the various pieces parts of selling—marketing, sales, customer service, etc—we tend to optimize these systems to achieve our separate goals. It’s no wonder why we each struggle! We need to think about how we redesign this process to achieve our individual goals, while working together.

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System Customer Objections Vendor 107

Showpad

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Meet Pedro Correia, Sales Enablement Lead at IFF. In this interview, Pedro shares the innovative ways IFF is integrating technology into the sales training and content process , from information tagging to augmented reality and AI. We are focusing on creating new digital formats for content, training, and customer engagement.

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

Why are SaaS companies embracing it? A highly curated group of 200 GTM leaders, 85% director level and above across Sales, Marketing, and Partnerships. Why SaaS Companies Are Embracing Owned Media and How to Make It Work for You Let’s break it down What is owned media? Consider the overnight success of a celebrity-owned product.

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Media Company Distribution How To 71

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 1, 2012

Hey, Sales Operations leaders. Do you want to increase sales and meet your 2013 goals? Encourage sales and marketing to build personas and build a plan to operationalize them immediately. Over the past year, many organizations have built buyer personas (Read more about buyer personas here and here ).

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Meeting Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Persona Forecasting 288

Emissary

JANUARY 31, 2023

That’s a challenging environment for sales teams. According to Gartner research, buyers facing moderate to high environmental uncertainty are 30% less likely to complete a purchase. But you can still conquer a slow market by taking a strategic approach to grow existing accounts. How do decision-makers prefer to engage?

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Account Decision Maker Face-to-face How To 96

Apptivo

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Key Stages of the Buyer’s Journey 3. 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. ” Your company prioritizes SEO, so a blog post on that topic appears towards the top of the search results.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Marketing Loyalty 81

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

As a Sales Operations leader, you have 3 major challenges heading into 2014. Identifying which of the ever-evolving stream of data points will help determine success. Understanding how your customers are evolving and determining whether your sales team is keeping pace. Jesse runs Sales Operations for a Value Added Reseller.

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Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re launching a new product, implementing new sales strategies, or upskilling your team, sales training and coaching will always be of utmost importance. However, traditional coaching and training methods tend to fall flat because they take a one-size fits all approach that doesn’t fit the needs of each individual rep.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Training Exercises 52

Allego

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Great sales content drives conversations—and results. To keep sellers ahead of the competition and hitting their targets in 2021, they need access to the most timely, relevant, and impactful materials. In many organizations, a sales enablement team drives the creation, distribution, and management of sales content.

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Case Study Face-to-face 71

Mindtickle

DECEMBER 2, 2022

As sales leaders barrel into what will likely be a challenging Q4, many do not like the look of their forecasts. Even before the rumblings of a recession, just 43% of reps in B2B tech sales were hitting their quota. With so much tough news, what can sales leaders do about this all? How Mindtickle measures sales productivity.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Forecasting 52

Janek Performance Group

MAY 2, 2023

In an instant, sales organizations saw their operations and teams rendered dramatically less productive. In addition to an uncertain economy, organizations now face dispersed sales teams and a lexicon of new phrases. Think of that in terms of sales, an industry on the forefront of change. New buyers are increasingly hesitant.

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Hiring Negotiation Decision Maker Coaching 62

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. Why is lead nurturing beneficial?

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Lead Nurturing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 98

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 7, 2023

In this blog post, we'll cover the following: What is a digital product? Why sell digital products? How to sell digital products 10 best digital products to sell There are a number of reasons why selling digital products is advantageous for businesses. Why sell digital products? Warehouse space costs an average of $7.96

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Buyer Persona eBook How To Social Media 104

Vengreso

JUNE 10, 2022

Whether you’re a recent graduate, a newly-established freelancer who’s trying to generate leads, a job seeker in the market for a new job or position, or a seasoned sales professional, the strength of your LinkedIn profile can have a huge impact on your ability to attract and engage with the right audience.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Understanding it, executing it well is the cornerstone to our success. Qualifying with Committing To Change, Discovery with Needs Identification, etc. The buying process is something we have invented, conveniently having the buyer conducting the activities we want them to be doing. The reality is buyers struggle to buy.

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Analysis System Selling Skills Buyer 106

Mindtickle

MAY 21, 2021

It might not come as a surprise that 57% of sales reps are expected to miss their quotas in 2021. Sellers often can’t explain why deals don’t work out, leaving your sales managers in the dark. Conversation intelligence solutions offer invaluable support to sales managers. Pre-qualification call.

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