Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan “What happens when new and fast-improving technologies create opportunities to unleash untapped sources of revenue, some of them long trapped by market inefficiencies?”. That question kicks off the new book “Pivot to the Future” by three thought leaders from the consulting giant Accenture.

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Act!

APRIL 16, 2024

Generic content just doesn’t cut it with the modern-day buyer, seller or tenant, especially when they’ve got plenty of options to choose from. How then, can your commercial real estate business personalize your marketing campaigns ? Here are CRM personalization tips and marketing strategies you can use to get started.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 5, 2023

The software buyer's journey has shifted dramatically over the past few years. As G2's Director of SMBs, Mike Buscemi , puts it: "Software buyers today act like B2C consumers because they have so many options. Buyers have an abundance to pick and choose from.". In 2022, many buyers don't trust sales. Let's dive in.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 19, 2021

What really gets the attention of potential buyers is a super personalized email in their inbox. B2B businesses need to pivot their approach with a new metric to measure the success of outbound email sequences. It’s called buyer sentiment and allows SDRs and their managers to peel back the layers when interpreting email replies.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 1, 2020

Fortunately, by leveraging a few inside sales best practices, outside sales reps can successfully pivot to remote sales. Calling your prospects. Unlike the other channels we’ll look at, calling your prospect also allows you to get an immediate response, better address objections , and provide a completely personalized experience.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Despite the economic damage this crisis has caused, it has also created opportunities, especially for marketers. Most B2B companies have reduced marketing budgets in the wake of the pandemic, even as the need for impactful customer engagement has increased. In order to be nimble, marketers must react to news and events in real time.

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 8, 2024

What a Digital Marketing Plan Entails for Small Businesses A digital marketing plan is vital for small businesses in today’s fast-paced, digital-centric landscape. It provides a clear roadmap to reach digital marketing goals and facilitates understanding the online marketing terrain.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The buzz around the water cooler is that marketing botched it from the get-go. As the marketing leader, you play a pivotal role in bringing the new offering to market. Unfortunately, most marketing leaders don’t know or under-estimate what’s involved. Are their new markets to enter? So do careers.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 9, 2020

Given the changes and opportunities in the market, it’s time for new legs on an old stool. Sales to Economic buyer; C-suite to C-suite; ops to ops; finally finance to finance. Step back and see that much of our ability to pivot and continue came by leaning on different people than in previous pivots.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 1, 2022

But the reality is traditional rapport in sales began to shift even before the pandemic began , with reports showing buyers only spent about 17% of their time meeting with potential suppliers. Buyers are more informed, and Zoom-fatigued, than ever before. Nowadays, buyers have more options and information is readily available.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 30, 2024

Because of their self-led research, salespeople say buyers enter conversations with them more informed than ever. These more informed buyers don’t want a product pitch, which changes the role of a salesperson. Instead of primary information sharers, reps will pivot to consultative relationship builders who solution sell.

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 13, 2024

Exploring the Potential of Email Marketing for Small Businesses Tapping into email marketing’s potential can revolutionize small businesses. This strategy is pivotal in nurturing leads, providing an economical medium to connect, engage and effectively convert potential customers. Discover more with [YOUR BRAND].

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Zoominfo

APRIL 30, 2021

Like everyone else, we had to pivot, and fast.” — Danny Daly, manager, marketing events at ZoomInfo. One year later, we’re virtually in the same boat, with most organizations shifting to conducting online shows to generate leads and reach prospective buyers. Lessons learned from virtual events. That makes them hot leads.

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Go to market launches are critical for most companies. of 30,000 new products are released into the market for customers to use. 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. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy?

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Mereo

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

A leading global financial technology (FinTech) client recently reached out with a big request: They wanted to completely overhaul their go-to-market organizational structure, roles and relationships. There are a number of factors that should tip off sales and go-to-market leaders to rethink their organizational approach.

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PandaDoc

JUNE 23, 2021

Due to the staggering number of new businesses and potential clients that inhabit the marketplace, companies must know the difference between ideal customer profiles (ICPs) and buyer personas, in order to craft the perfect strategy for using them. How to know whether to use ideal customer profiles or buyer personas. Understanding ICPs.

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Nutshell

MARCH 15, 2024

Qualifying leads before sending them through to your sales team lets you learn more about your prospects and build deeper connections with them, which often results in more deals. Lead nurturing is the process of building relationships with prospects who aren’t quite ready to purchase your product or service.

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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. A successful GTM strategy involves a series of coordinated steps aimed at bringing a new product to market effectively. One of the key components that play a pivotal role in executing a GTM strategy is sales enablement.

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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. A successful GTM strategy involves a series of coordinated steps aimed at bringing a new product to market effectively. One of the key components that play a pivotal role in executing a GTM strategy is sales enablement.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Frugalnomics is in full effect, meaning buyers are more economic-focused and risk averse than ever before. You already know buyers have evolved. Having this information included in your presentation will allow buyers to justify the purchase quicker. The Need for Value-Based or ROI Selling.

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PandaDoc

JUNE 21, 2021

Like it or not, your business needs a lead generation strategy and a sales prospecting process. You’ll also know why you need a strong sales prospecting process and exactly how that will benefit your business. It’s not so much knowing about sales prospecting vs lead generation, as knowing how and when to prioritize one or the other.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 8, 2019

The incredible rise of smartphones and social media has been pivotal to this cultural shift. Customers today expect highly connected, personalized experiences from all organizations, with even business buyers expecting simple, easy-to-navigate, consumer-like ones. The lines between such experiences are fundamentally blurring.

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BuzzBoard

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As personalization has already taken the center stage, ambitious marketers and sellers aren’t relying on pre-made templates to create content for any customer engagement. Market predictions strongly indicate—2024 B2B marketing will be thriving upon not just personalization but hyper-personalized content.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It’s a unique, product specific, customer focused go-to-market strategy. From poorly thought out plans to unidentified buyer personas, a small crack in the foundation can lead to the crumbling of the entire structure. A go-to-market strategy , more than anything, is a plan. GTM motions can fail for a variety of reasons.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

If you’re keeping up with the sales and marketing publications, one of the big buzzwords burned into your eyelids is Content Marketing. Is this just another buzzword du jour like Big Data, Pivoting, and Gamification? As a Sales Rep, it’s great to be the first in the door; it’s no different with marketing.

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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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Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2023

In addition, approximately 35% of startups fail because there is no market need for their products or services. Even though our company is scaling quickly and getting close to the point of full capacity, it’s not the right time to hire salespeople — because a pivot to something more sustainable could be in the works.

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Alice Heiman

JUNE 17, 2020

None of this is good news for your company or your sales team – unless you happen to be one of the companies serving a market or industry that’s actually experiencing growth. Right now, we’re helping CEOs make sales pivots to turn pandemonium into a path to sustainable sales growth. .

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Emissary

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Recently, enablement has flexed to provide better support for sales in the face of the post-pandemic business environment and increasingly demanding technology buyers. Whether they need help drafting a quote, following up on an email, or prepping for a prospect meeting, reps can call or chat with someone immediately.

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Allego

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As the business world evolves at lightning speed, shifts in B2B buying behavior have revealed a significant disconnect between what modern buyers expect and the ability of go-to-market (GTM) teams to meet these expectations. And buyers’ want more from the content shared with them. And even then, they prefer digital interactions.

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Crunchbase

MAY 18, 2022

Imagine your marketing and sales team working in tandem, seamlessly pursuing and closing on the kinds of businesses your company exists to serve. That’s the premise behind account-based marketing (ABM). Topics covered in this article include: What is ABM marketing? What is account-based marketing (ABM)?

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LinkedFusion

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Marketing without creating ideal buyer personas is like shooting blind arrows – can cause you a massive monetary loss in the business. Creating an ideal buyer persona and basing your marketing strategy on these findings can be super-beneficial for your business. But these are all misconceptions!

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

Prospects need you to acknowledge their new realities; don’t glaze over the facts. By understanding how your buyers have been affected, you’ll be better positioned to sell in mid- and post-pandemic eras. Your prospects’ buying patterns and priorities have changed, so previously compelling offers may seem irrelevant and insensitive.

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SBI

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In fact, 53% of 5,000 buyers surveyed by the Corporate Executive Board say it’s the sales experience ? Q: WHAT ARE THE TOP WAYS COMPANIES CAN TRANSFORM SALES TO IMPROVE THEIR PROSPECTS' BUYING EXPERIENCE IN THE NEXT 12-24 MONTHS. Presenting a picture of a “day in the life” of the buyer is one of my favorite methods.

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Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This was pivotal to his growth because customers had high user adoption and because of that renewed and told others. In seven short years, his team has grown tremendously, and they work as a team to retain customers, find new prospects and guide buyers through to a decision.

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Emissary

JANUARY 5, 2022

For backend IT technology providers, the post-pandemic economy has opened up opportunities in the P&C insurance vertical market. In order to position your technology as the answer for your prospects’ IT problems, investigate the internal factors pushing the account to solutions like yours.

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Alice Heiman

MARCH 7, 2023

The way we build sales funnels is obsolete Digital marketing has its roots in the early days of the internet, but it really started to take off in the mid-1990s as more and more businesses began to recognize the potential of the internet as a marketing and communication tool. Create a strategy with the outcome you expect 2.

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