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Risk Avoidance as a Competitive Advantage

Sales and Marketing Management

The post Risk Avoidance as a Competitive Advantage appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Risk is part of being in business, but you must be ready to react positively to industry influences and marketplace changes with risk-abating solutions.

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Why Competitive Intelligence Is More Important Than Ever

Sales and Marketing Management

Marketing and sales professionals who want to build sustainable business advantages are focusing on leveraging competitive intelligence to help inform better decision-making on the front lines with sales and customer success.

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10 Tips for B2B Marketers to Get Ahead in 2024

SBI Growth

The marketing landscape is ever evolving, and it could take market leaders considerable effort to keep up with every shift and development. To help marketing leaders maintain their competitive advantage in 2024, SBI has compiled 10 key predictions for what B2B marketing will look like in the year ahead.

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Omnichannel Marketing for B2B: Strategies for Getting More Customers

Sales and Marketing Management

In a crowded and competitive B2B market, omnichannel marketing is an effective differentiator. Here's how to create an omnichannel marketing strategy for a smooth customer experience. The post Omnichannel Marketing for B2B: Strategies for Getting More Customers appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. Longer sales cycles. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. How can you speed it up? By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster.

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Transforming Marketing from Cost-Center to Revenue Generator

SBI Growth

For many firms, marketing is often relegated as a cost center, and marketing leaders often find themselves competing for a voice at the strategy table. This causes a funding gap between both departments and intense competition for attribution.

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Overcoming Hiring Challenges:  Solutions for Finding Qualified Sales Candidates in a Competitive Market

The Center for Sales Strategy

In today’s competitive job market, recruiting and hiring superstar salespeople is no easy feat, but getting creative and spending time on recruitment each week could help you build a strong talent bank of potential candidates for the future. If so, you’re not alone.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Intensifying competition. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Economic uncertainty. Thankfully, there’s an answer.

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12 Plays to Kickstart Your Recruitment Process

That means placing the right people in the right roles can be the difference between your business growing or stagnating — and the competition is getting fierce. According to Harvard Business Review, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated seismic shifts that were already rocking the talent market.

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation. Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks.

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Roadblocks to Delivering a Competitive Buying Experience

That's why Bigtincan teamed up with Heinz Marketing in a recent research study with the aim of discovering the roadblocks revenue-generating teams encounter in preparing buyer-facing teams for today’s market. Our research uncovered five key insights into what you can do today.

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Digital Revenue Leaders: How to Make Sales & Marketing Integration Your 2020 Strategy

Speaker: Jamie Shanks, CEO, Sales for Life

You know the saying – Marketing is from Mars, Sales is from Venus. But if you can successfully align your sales and marketing teams, you'll find that the cooperation between the two quickly becomes a key differentiator for your company. How have your sales and marketing teams aligned to deliver that value before your competition?

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Why Conversational AI Is Key to Customer Service in the Customer Experience Era

In today’s hyper-competitive market, every business must become a customer experience-first business. Customer satisfaction has become more important than price or any individual feature. Read the new Tractica white paper to learn how important conversational AI is to your CX strategy.

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How to Successfully Coach Your Sales Team to Drive Efficiency

Speaker: Steve Benson, Founder and CEO, Badger Maps

To stay competitive in today’s market, you need to implement a formal coaching approach that is aligned with your buyer’s journey and internal processes to drive results. Fortunately, Steve Benson is here to help you create that approach.