Mon.Apr 06, 2020

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Reallocate Budget to Strengthen Your Marketing Strategy in Today’s Environment

SBI Growth

CMOs are in the people business. And that’s no different for B2B CMOs. Your customers, your decision-makers, your influencers—they’re all people. And like you, they’re all set with similar worries: How long will my business be disrupted? Which decisions can wait, and.

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Why Is Today’s Revenue Process Stuck in the Pre-Industrial Age?

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Evan Liang You've probably seen me. I'm that guy standing in line looking slightly annoyed. Not that I mind waiting my turn, mind you, but because often I can spot a faster, better process to get everyone through. . I've always wanted to make things more efficient, which is why I studied industrial engineering in college, and why I’ve always thought I would have been a great plant manager during the industrial revolution.

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10 Best Practices & Strategies for Using CRM (for Financial Advisors)

Nimble - Sales

Banks have always been known as the most stable and reliable institutions throughout the history of the financial services sector development. But there was always another feature of the banking sector: conservatism, which partially helped them to stay a monopolist in the monetary market until recently. Everything changed in the financial world with the arrival […].

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15 Lessons Learned from Converting a Multi-Day Conference to a Virtual Online Event

Understanding the Sales Force

What a month it's been! Not only how the Covid-19 virus has changed our lives and sent us to work from home, but how we are conducting our businesses from home. Green screens, virtual backgrounds, video calls and meetings, team chats, video team huddles, a blur between days, working hours and relaxing hours, and more. In today's article I'm going off topic so that I can share how we converted Objective Management Group's (OMG) 4-day Boston International Sales Experts Conference for OMG Partners,

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker

Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.

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Sales Leaders Share How They Keep Their Salespeople Focused

Steven Rosen

Sales Leadership Roundtable Discussion. I really enjoyed a round table discussion that I facilitated a couple of weeks ago. I had 8 senior sales executives join me for an open discussion. In part 1 of this two-part series, they shared how they have kept their salespeople productive and motivated over the last couple of weeks. We all realized that we are all in unchartered waters.

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Business Development Strategies for Staffing & Recruitment: 10 Ways to Get More Clients

Zoominfo

Staffing and recruiting companies have a sixth sense for hot passive candidates. But business development and expanding into new markets might not be second nature. Read on for tried-and-true sales development strategies that staffing and recruiting firms can use today to get more clients.

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The Mindset of Market Leaders – A Message from Our CEO

SBI Growth

This time has allowed us to adjust to a new normal with our teams. Not only on a human level where we have met families through video conferences, but also how we have been getting deals across the line. As.

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Podcast 142: What’s Changed? With The JB Sales Executive Team

John Barrows

We’ve moved away from the usual format for this episode of the podcast and pulled in the JB Sales leadership team to discuss what’s going on right now. Christopher Merrill and Meghan Forgione have been through economic downturns before and are using what they learned before, right now. We don’t have the silver bullet to dealing with everything that’s going on, but we’ve taken proactive steps and they’re helping.

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Resources for Job Seekers in the 2020 Economy

SalesLoft

The REVCommunity is kind, generous, and thoughtful. They’ve proven themselves over and over through the years. It turns out that they’re not here just for the good times, they’re here for the hard times, too. They know that the market is uncertain and scary right now, and they’ve been graciously sharing their findings for job seekers with the REVCommunity over recent days and weeks.

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Streamlining Salesforce for Maximum Impact: A People-Focused Pocket Guide

Step inside the world of Salesforce consulting, stripped of fluff and jargon. Our guide provides a detailed exploration of five key success criteria, complete with actionable steps for immediate implementation. Elevate your Salesforce investment with insights on goal setting, system design, core object utilization, user adoption, and crafting a system tailored to your needs.

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The Ultimate Guide to Sales Strategy

Hubspot Sales

Every sales team needs sales strategies, and a strong sales strategy plan builds the foundation for a cohesive, successful sales team and organization. Sales strategies also align salespeople on shared goals and empower them to do their best work — keeping them happy and successful, too. In this guide, we'll dig into how to create a sales strategy plan that helps you generate more leads and close more deals.

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How to onboard remote employees

Close.io

I like to talk to our new hires after a couple of weeks, and I always ask them the same question: What’s surprised you the most? They’ve gone through the process of searching for a job, they found us, did their research, talked to us, and finally decided to accept an offer. But do expectations match reality? Here’s the most common answer I get: The most surprising thing has been how exceptional the onboarding process is.

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14 Templates for Follow Up Emails After a Meeting, Conference, and More

Hubspot Sales

It's no secret that networking can be time-consuming and difficult. Organizing meetings, making phone calls, sending emails, and attending conferences — a lot goes into relationship-building, no matter your industry. One of the most important parts of the networking process happens after your first interaction with the person or business you're communicating with. when you send your follow-up email.

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Your Value Proposition Must Be More Valuable Now!

Partners in Excellence

Creating value with our customers has never been more important than it is now. Our customers face issues they have, probably, never had to deal with in the past. The safety of their people, restrictions on how they operate, profound shifts in their markets and with their customers, possible supply chain management issues, and the list goes on. Some customers are in areas critical to our current health and economic crises, they are struggling to respond to critical needs from their customers.

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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. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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7 Virtual Alternatives to Generating Leads at Trade Shows

Hubspot Sales

Whether you specialize in inside sales or are a field sales pro, you have likely picked up a lead or two at an event or trade show at some point in your career. While trade shows can be an effective place to meet and connect with qualified potential buyers, there are alternatives to finding these high-quality leads when attending a live event isn’t in the cards.

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How to Foster Healthy Competition When Managing Remote Teams

SalesLoft

TL;DR. In this blog post we’ll discuss how customers are using SalesLoft to facilitate remote activities that inspire healthy competition and maintain team rapport: Hosting remote power hours. Gamifying content competitions. And celebrating success — a lot! Going Remote Without Going Dark. Many companies are scrambling to adapt to a new normal right now.

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7 Virtual Alternatives to Generating Leads at Trade Shows

Hubspot Sales

Whether you specialize in inside sales or are a field sales pro, you have likely picked up a lead or two at an event or trade show at some point in your career. While trade shows can be an effective place to meet and connect with qualified potential buyers, there are alternatives to finding these high-quality leads when attending a live event isn’t in the cards.

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Create the Best Place to Work Culture

Pipeliner

The Importance of Relationships. The organizations that find success are those that focus on building relationships with the people within the organization. Those that interface with you, those that are close to you, and those inside and outside of the company are all important. The cumulative sum of the relationships that you cultivate with these people will make up your company culture, and if you want it to be the best possible culture, the relationships must be good ones.

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Supercharge Your Sales: 5 Steps to Effortless Selling

Sales teams often lose precious time hunting for updated sales materials, while marketing struggles to keep these assets accessible and current. It's not just about managing; it's about seamlessly finding, presenting, and sharing critical sales content. All of this takes place within an intuitive, unified platform. Dive into Showell's groundbreaking content management realm.

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Selling in a Global Crisis? Here’s My Approach (Template Included)

Sales Hacker

Is it wrong to “sell” in times of uncertainty or turbulence? What is the appropriate or preferred way of reaching out to a customer or prospect during a global crisis? In the face of COVID-19, these types of questions are popping up all over social media. Maybe you’re second-guessing yourself without any provocation or experiencing “sales shaming” from someone on Linkedin.

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The Monthly Rundown: Startups to Watch from Shamus the Sales Guy

Crunchbase

As a sales leader, COVID-19 has introduced many new challenges. From prospecting strategy to outreach, our team is making changes across the board to ensure we’re targeting the right prospects, at the right time, in an effective and situation-conscious way. . This strategy includes closely following industry trends and keeping a pulse on which industries are being negatively, or positively, impacted by COVID-19.

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Thriving Through Chaos with Susan Trumpler

criteria for success

Happy Monday, Let's Talk Sales listeners! This episode's featured guest is Susan Trumpler. Susan is the President of Unstoppable Women in Sales , an organization that coaches women sales professionals to reach the top 1% in their industry. She's also a Managing Partner at Beyond ROI, Inc. , an independent, former third-party partner that measures the effectiveness of sales training, as well as the former Raleigh-Durham Chapter President of the National Association of Women Sales Professionals.

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3 Reasons to Update Your Marketing Strategy

The Center for Sales Strategy

Amidst the worldwide pandemic and historic economic shift, sales managers and business leaders everywhere are busy trying to adjust business models. A majority of business owners are re-inventing their business operations in a time where most people are "sheltering-in-place" and can no longer physically visit their place of business. Once you figure out what this new world order entails for your organization, it’s time to re-examine your marketing strategy—not just your advertising and commercia

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Easily Find Notes on All Your Contacts with the New Nimble Contact Notes Search

Nimble - Sales

When trying to build better relationships, it’s important to be able to easily locate things that have been quickly jotted down during conference calls or meetings. That’s why Nimble has made it easier than ever to locate notes associated with a given contact with our new Contact Notes search. What’s New in the Contact Notes […]. The post Easily Find Notes on All Your Contacts with the New Nimble Contact Notes Search appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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How One Question Changed My Life

Shari Levitin

Have you ever been asked the question, “If you could meet anyone dead or alive, who would it be?” A few years back, my colleague, Charlie, asked me that very question at the National Speaker’s conference. I replied, “Amelia Earhart, Gandhi, and Jill Konrath. “Jill Konrath is right over there,” he responded. We were in a hotel lobby bar and sure enough there she was surrounded by friends and fans three feet deep.

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How to Use Intent Data & the Freemium Model to Book More Enterprise Meetings

Sales Hacker

This article is Part 1 in a series on leveraging intent data to book more meetings, accelerate deals, and ultimately crush quota! In this article, you’ll learn how to use the freemium model to book more enterprise meetings. Let’s get started… Introduction to Intent Data. As technology continues to evolve, buyers have access to more information than ever before.

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The Daily Briefing: April 6, 2020

Chorus.ai

Watch the Video. Jim Benton opened up the week with Dave Boyce , Chief Strategy Officer at Xant on today’s Daily Briefing. They discussed meeting volume and productivity which fell 11% last week. Here are the numbers: Meeting volume fell 11% last week. Meetings held steady at the end of Q1, leading into a dip in the first week of Q2. This is different YoY, as we saw a dip at the end of Q1 last year, and started Q2 with an upward trend.

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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8 Examples of Good and Bad Sales Content

Hubspot Sales

Imagine you're a business owner looking for a new telecom service provider for your business communications. You find a particularly interesting, astute article about how data privacy laws are shaping the future of wireless communication. The blog is hosted by an organization called OutBound Telecom, and you start to think that company might be the right one to suit your needs.

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The Right Way to Fill Your Funnel

KLA Group

Right now, your prospects are faced with a whole new set of challenges. That means they need help. Your help. You still have to fill your funnel, but a sales pitch will come across as tone-deaf and insensitive. Reach out to prospects with a genuine message of compassion and help. As they are faced with. Read more.

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Lead411 Announces New Freemium Subscription

Lead411

In an effort to help sales, marketing, recruiting and business professionals navigate through these changing times, Lead411 has created a new Freemium Subscription which includes the ability to access our platform and google chrome extension. The subscription allows for 30 unlocks per month, so users can find verified emails to reach out to new prospects.

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