Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2019

Author: Joe Andrews We just wrapped up sales kickoff (SKO) season. And how do we, in turn, ensure our own sales kickoffs are effective? We recently completed our sales kickoff at InsideView. The three-day agenda combined information sharing, skills development, team workshops and fun, which I’m sure sounds pretty familiar.

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Sales Evangelist

JULY 5, 2020

Tom Abbott is the founder and Managing Director of SOCO Sales Training. He has delivered hundreds of motivational sales keynotes, kickoffs, presentations and workshops in over 20 countries and is a pioneer of optimising the sales processes of organizations worldwide.

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Tony Hughes

OCTOBER 16, 2018

2015 will see the dawn of the rise of "LinkedIn Centers" to steadily replace traditional B2B marketing activities for demand generation and phone based telemarketing for lead generation (in-house or outsourced). Create an initial team of 5 of your best sales people. Here is how it can work. This Social 3.0

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Stored in Appointments , Contest , Proactive , Proactivity , Prospecting , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Training , Workshops , execution. A collection of three top sales books, including my award winning book on Trigger Events. EDGE Sales Process.

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The Pipeline

MAY 23, 2011

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s LinkedIn: Social-ism Meets Capital-ism – Sales eXchange – 98. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Sales 2.0 , Sales Leadership , Sales eXchange , Social Selling , Social media , execution. First, it gave us Sales 2.0, First, it gave us Sales 2.0,

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 3, 2012

I am currently conducting a poll on Linkedin. I'd like to gather some data from those in sales executive positions as to "why" people fail to meet expectations. Here is the link: Linkedin Poll. The second is almost always: Manage my time better. I see this with groups that have tenured sales professionals as well.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 4, 2024

Preface : Emre Vatansever and I met a couple of years ago on LinkedIn (See it can work). Why I Love Selling: A Journey of Curiosity In response to a conversation initiated by my “LinkedIn friends” David Brock and Christian Maurer, exploring the essence of what we love about selling, I found myself reflecting on my own journey.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Here’s why a portfolio vision is so critical to the success of your products and how it elevates Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success teams to plan and execute more strategically. Subscribe to The Product Vibe or follow Product Management University on LinkedIn to make sure you get the 10-part post.

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Highspot

JUNE 1, 2023

Major advances include: generative AI for sales enablement, enterprise-class training and coaching, and ​​services and success resources that empower revenue teams to scale what good looks like in business-to-business (B2B) selling. Companies everywhere are intent on increasing efficiency, which requires running programs with rigor.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. When done right, they can improve your team’s performance and help you move closer to your sales goals. Why sales training is important. The different types of sales training programs. The 15 best sales training programs.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Product managers and product marketing managers, if you’re into data driven decisions, forecasting revenue is one of the more difficult things you’re tasked with, especially for each product/module. Subscribe to The Product Vibe or follow Product Management University on LinkedIn to make sure you get the 10-part post.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Product managers and product marketing managers, if you’re into data driven decisions, forecasting revenue is one of the more difficult things you’re tasked with, especially for each product/module. Subscribe to The Product Vibe or follow Product Management University on LinkedIn to make sure you get the 10-part post.

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Alice Heiman

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

His founder-led sales approach paid off as he uncovered more and better ways to address the market need. Rather than hire a sales force, Matt has employed two sales strategies. Rather than hire a sales force, Matt has employed two sales strategies. Each champion specializes in a niche such as fintech or blockchain.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 10, 2013

This post is for small business CEOs struggling to hire top sales talent. I’m conducting a workshop on SBI’s Topgrading for Sales methodology. The goal is to help CEOs find better sales people. Topgrading for Sales takes the guesswork out of hiring. Below are the 5 phases of SBI’s talent management methodology.

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Score More Sales

JANUARY 27, 2014

Need some sales inspiration? A new twist on an old sales idea you’d like to do again? A quick sales jump-start this week? Here are the first 50 of a list of 101 ways to “snap out of it” and score more sales: read a recommended sales book. bookmark a sales blog and read regularly.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 13, 2020

Conferences and workshops are obviously being canceled, and the associated costs are significant. While the basic concept behind an offline event and an online event is similar, how you manage the event will be very different. Just Google, “your niche + workshop + Eventbrite + big city” to get a list of workshops.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 13, 2014

Yes, the title, "Improve Sales Forecasting to Improve Sales Performance?" It remains a question despite the millions of dollars spent on CRM, sales force automation, training and hype. I was on LinkedIn this morning and saw an ad which read, "5 Keys to Improve Pipeline Forcasting Accuracy and Reduce Revenue Risk!".

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InsightSquared

MARCH 9, 2020

This International Women’s Day, we’d like to give a shoutout to women leaders in the tech industry, especially those in sales leadership positions. Looking for sales leaders to follow for inspiration and best practices? Jill Konrath is one of the most recognized women in sales. Jill Konrath. Tiffani Bova.

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Adaptive Business Services

MAY 16, 2018

We will always continue to seek to improve our member services and, now that I have a partner, we have more time to do so and I have more time to focus on … Workshops. I love doing workshops and have now fully developed six and have two more under development. I will be doing workshops for companies only. They are ….

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 1, 2013

Sales Training Article: How LinkedIn Is Beating Facebook in Social Media By Geoffrey James, Inc. Sales Source By every meaningful metric, LinkedIn is kicking Facebook's butt. Last week, LinkedIn reported results so positive that The New York Times credited the company (in part) with lifting up the entire stock market.

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Customer Centric Selling

JULY 13, 2016

Sales Tips: How to Leverage LinkedIn Social Selling. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling®. I’m a regular contributor to CustomerCentric Selling®’s weekly ‘Sales Thought.’ (If engage with senior sales executives. engage with senior sales executives.

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Product Management University

JULY 10, 2020

Here’s how to create business requirements that boost your marketing and sales proficiency. Context is the key to creating business requirements that not only give design and development teams clear value targets, but can also be repurposed as knowledge transfer vehicles for marketing and sales. Related Articles.

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Sales Excellence

MAY 10, 2016

Denver, CO, USA –May 10, 2016 – Sales Excellence International, a premier global sales training and consulting organization, today announced the launch of its new virtual workshops available through Sales Excellence University. About Sales Excellence International.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 12, 2019

The B2B sales arena has a few social celebs of its own. In today’s post, we’ve compiled a list of the top sales influencers on our radar. Leading off our list is sales consultant and coach, Jeb Blount. Jeb carries his sales wisdom over to all his social media channels and spreads his expertise to the masses.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In the case of sales, the message delivered the way you want a buyer to hear it. The most common error was front and centre in a post on LinkedIn last week. But I have a captive audience in a workshop, on voicemail you don’t. Of course, you could; you would have applied the objection management method you mastered.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 11, 2023

Your sales team plays an essential role in driving revenue and reaching goals that stretch across the organization. So should you be worried about churn in your sales department? Sales teams have higher-than-average turnover rates than other business units. Why do sales teams experience high turnover? In short, yes.

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SBI

JULY 29, 2020

Mediafly , a provider of sales enablement technology, content management and advisory services that create interactive, value-based selling experiences, announced today the launch of Jumpstart ROI , an interactive value-selling program designed specifically for sales reps to use on-demand when collaborating live with customers.

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 24, 2018

My first reinvention was in 2006 when I made the decision that I no longer wanted to work in management and that I wanted to work for myself. LinkedIn, not yet. Sales consulting. Sales consulting casts a pretty wide net including … selling, CRM, communications, and salesperson assessments. Sales assessments.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Not only will those in sales be able to manage their territories this way but also sales leaders will have incredible access to data and insights – even being able to reinforce learning. There are new tools and ideas coming out now that will change forever how we think about business process, marketing and sales.

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Sales Excellence

AUGUST 9, 2016

Tampa, FL, USA –August 8, 2016 –Sales Excellence International, a premier global sales training and consulting organization, today began accepting registration for open-enrollment virtual workshops. Additionally, the open-enrollment virtual workshops mean that managers can select who attends which training segments.

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Score More Sales

MARCH 25, 2014

Many who work for companies – especially mid-sized ones selling to other businesses – get stuck in doing the same old things year after year to build sales. Just four years ago, I had a different target market and was giving workshops around the U.S. to help entrepreneurs grow sales to ultimately grow their businesses.

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Tony Hughes

OCTOBER 5, 2018

I ran a workshop yesterday for one of the best technology companies on the planet and we discussed how to best qualify a prospect. Most sales people are familiar with some of these qualification frameworks: But qualifying is not just about eliminating time-wasters and nor should these be framed as clumsy closed questions.

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Emissary

MARCH 2, 2023

Achieving enterprise technology sales goals has always meant overcoming a host of unique and challenging obstacles, including withstanding a protracted decision-making process and convincing a slate of committee members of your value proposition. Even the best computers still can’t beat the transformative power of human intelligence.

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Tony Hughes

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Customer Relationship Management needs to be a strategy that’s focused on creating the best possible customer experience, supported by well defined processes that are enabled by technology and with everything being driven by managers and staff committed to a customer-centric culture.

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SBI

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. NANCY: WHAT ARE THE TOP 3 WAYS YOUR SOLUTION CHANGES THE GAME FOR A SALES ORGANIZATION? This week I interview Jake Braly , VP of Marketing of Highspot.

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Sales Evangelist

JULY 31, 2020

With his theater background, he was immediately comfortable and got started making videos. Use your creativity Frank’s company uses Vidyard, a video platform that integrates with their sales platform. For a sports car company, Frank made a video of himself building one of their cars out of Legos in his workshop using his GoPro.

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SalesforLife

JUNE 27, 2019

Of course, companies are creating landing pages that are tracked, but at the sales professional level , people have been using LinkedIn Point Drive and videos, because every one of these assets can be tracked for buying intent. You need to engage using tools that help you understand buying intent.

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