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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person. Reimagining Sales Coverage.

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How to save the life of a tradeshow sales lead

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Peter Gillett, CEO, Zuant Since the dawn of marketing, tradeshow and other in-person events have been the largest items in the B2B marketing budget, often exceeding more than 50 percent of the total budget. email and web meetings), tradeshows are one of the only channels to connect with customers and prospects face to face.

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Prospect Development Program Jumpstarts Manufacturer’s Channel Sales

Pointclear

Few companies have the sales and marketing resources to adequately cover their markets. It’s logical that if only a fraction of your target market is contacted, only a fraction of the deals are going to you. Market coverage, yes it’s part of our business. Probably more often than you’d like.

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How to Measure Sales Fitness

Sales and Marketing Management

Despite the plethora of martech and sales enablement technologies now on the market, most sales teams are still performing at sub-optimal levels. With all these new tools making a salesperson’s job easier, there’s no excuse for your sales team not to excel. Author: Peter Gillett, CEO and founder, Zuant.

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How Salespeople Can Better Prioritize Using Purchase Intent Data

SBI

We’ve become #1 in enterprise purchase intent data because these products change the game for sales in three ways: Account prioritization – Knowing which accounts to focus on in any given period (day, week, month). If you want to go deep on how well we know your particular market, it makes sense to do a call with one of our publishers.

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2014 The Year of Execution and Strategy – Why Most Sales Organizations will be Chewed Up and Spit Out

A Sales Guy

There is a massive influx of tools available to sales organizations. Insides sales is growing like mad. Content marketing is redefining lead generation, SEO and branding. Social selling and social media are disrupting traditional engagement channels. Selling environments have changed/are changing.

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Buying Happens In The Absence Of Selling

Partners in Excellence

.” Years ago, much of this would have been unimaginable, but now huge amounts of buying happens in the absence of selling. Likewise, we know the data about how much of customer buying cycles are completed before sales is engaged. It’s a wholesale change in how people buy. Are The Pups’ Learning.