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For Marketing, Digital Transformation Has Always Been about Data

Cincom Smart Selling

For years, marketing had to manually collect information about companies, contacts and product preferences from service reports, call logs and assorted survey questionnaires. They would also rely on third parties who offered contact lists for sale, but the quality of these lists was questionable.

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4 ways to use your CRM to power your sales and marketing feedback loop

Zendesk Sell

The sales department grows frustrated because they don’t have the necessary material (i.e., blog posts, white papers, eBooks) to make a sale. Therefore, marketing may become annoyed when sales doesn’t even use what they produce. Categorize into a report and send results to team members.

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Is there a Way to Improve Sales Tool Adoption?

The ROI Guy

I n 2011 you worked hard to produce new value-focused tools, empowering your sales team to meet the growing challenges of today’s more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyer. And you are not alone, as SiriusDecisions reports that the average company now spends a whopping $43K on marketing content and sales tools per salesperson per year.

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Sales Leadership – A FREE Health-Check

Jonathan Farrington

. Yesterday I voiced my concerns about the poor quality – in general – of sales management today. Motivation implies two effects on the sales staff – the right attitude to their job and willingness to play their part to the best of their ability in achieving aims set by their manager.

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Generate Momentum in Value Selling: A Checklist for Sustainable Improvements in B2B Sales

LeveragePoint

Internal promotion then spreads the word among sales professionals and sales management. A results-driven sales culture and incentives will take over from there. Product managers and marketing professionals sometimes think they can roll out great content themselves. One success becomes a trend.

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Four Reasons for Quota Failures

Pointclear

Amad said, “Yeah, they give us quotas, but the sales managers don’t have the same numbers, and the systems engineers aren’t on the same system; so no one gets punished but us.”. In my years of sales management and sales consulting I have found the following four reasons for sales failure in many companies.

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Sales enablement: what is it, and how does it work?

Close.io

It depends on the size of the company: In one study, it was found that more than 70% of companies with a sales force of over 50 people had a dedicated sales enablement person. However, only 39% of companies with less than 25 sales reps had one. But as a busy sales manager, you hardly want to add more tasks to your plate.