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Insights on Outbound Conference in Atlanta

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One of the presenters, Mike Weinberg, summed up the sentiment in the room: “Many in what’s called the Sales 2.0 These false pronouncements are having a severe negative impact on sales performance,” he said. Prospecting sets you up for everything else in sales.”. Mike Weinberg – Mike stated, “I’m on a mission to simplify sales.

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Culture Always Wins: Closing the Cross-Cultural Sale

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customer. “Of The Indian’s assumption is that good customer service requires an unqualified yes. The kind of trusting relationship necessary to close big-ticket IT solutions sales, the kinds that ITSMA’s members seek, require a deeper connection. asks the U.S. Of course,” answers the Indian systems integrator.

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Marketing Automation is Not Marketing Strategy

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Marketers thought that the new CRM software would solve their customer service and customer retention problems. So education campaigns are underway. In other words, marketing automation doesn’t work without strategy. Remember ten years ago, when CRM came along? Déjà vu all over again, to echo Yogi Berra.

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Top sales blogs all sales managers need to follow

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Although 71% of companies say closing more deals is their top sales priority, further data from Forrester suggests that only 0.75% of leads generated become closed revenue. Compounding this issue is sales reps can spend up to 40% of their time looking for somebody to call, according to Insidesales. Adaptive Business Blog.