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Firing Up the Revenue Engine Post-Crisis

Sales and Marketing Management

Organizations are doing their best to navigate this new landscape of layoffs, remote working, canceled events, slowing sales and demand slumps. Organizations of all sizes must begin planning now for jump-starting their revenue engines when we emerge from this crisis. That’s the bad news.

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Firing up the revenue engine post-crisis

Sales and Marketing Management

Being well-prepared and truly understanding how to get your people, your operations and your sales back and running at full bore will be essential for survival. As organizations emerge from the pandemic crisis and fire up their sales engines, it’s clear that the channel must adapt?— Invest in partner success programs?—?

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Game the Plan – With Chris Cabrera

The Pipeline

Almost everyone in sales will tell you that incentives drive behaviour, but beyond that there is often little agreement among the pundits as to what the right incentive plan is. Some see it as a black art, while others, usually sales people, see it as something to manipulate, hence the expression ‘gaming the plan’.

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6 steps to adapt effectively

Sales and Marketing Management

A survey of B2B sales operations by McKinsey & Company shows the pandemic has accelerated previous trends?—?omnichannel omnichannel selling, inside sales, tech-enabled selling and e-commerce. Focus on delivering the three things buyers value most?–?speed, from all of your sales channels. Are you digital-ready?

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E-commerce That Avoids Channel Conflict

Sales and Marketing Management

No B2B buyer wants to hear that from a vendor when they place an order the old-fashioned way, by phone. At Innovaxis Marketing, e-commerce for our B2B clients has risen from 5% to 15% or more of total sales. Author: Sean Parnell “Wait?—?let let me get a pencil and paper to take that down. Pause) OK, what was it you wanted?”.

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How to Accelerate Sales Performance in Q4

Janek Performance Group

With time running down, teams with leads may play it safe and engineer long, slow drives that eat clock. In sales, the fourth quarter is equally important. For one thing, buyers are willing to deal. In the fourth quarter, both sellers and buyers have additional incentive to get deals done. Incentivize.

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Sellers, Expect to Earn Equal Value to What You Serve Buyers

Mereo

Buyers and sellers struggle to remain in harmony — and naturally so: Buyer pains are often not recognized or are simply ignored, so “status quo” wins as buyers do not feel the urge nor can justify investing in a solution. Yes—and It Is Threatening Your Long-Term Buyer/Seller Harmony. Achieve Buyer Harmony.

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