Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

How much pre-call research do you need to do to be effective in your prospecting? Some argue you need to research deeply, learning as much as you can about the company and the individual as possible, becoming well informed about them and their business so you can be relevant in the conversation.

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Research Prospecting Face-to-face Maximizer 52

Sales Evangelist

JUNE 9, 2023

Prospecting to Triple Your Pipeline Invest in targeted research and networking to identify prospects. The more reports you can get your hands on, the better you can assess your pipeline. Rigorous, regular pipeline review. Revise your plan every 2-3 months. Things change and you may learn new things. Network shamelessly.

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Ideal Customer Profile Pipeline Microsoft Sales Qualified Lead 40

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Show Off Your Star Employees – Microsoft One of the largest companies in the world, Microsoft, is also one of the biggest advocates of storytelling as a brand-building tactic. Their Microsoft Story Labs platform highlights employees from every department within their company—from researchers to artists to video game developers.

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Examples B2B Microsoft Case Study 130

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 22, 2020

We do have a reason to send an email to Google or to Amazon (AWS) or to Microsoft who sells to other businesses. If you have a product or service or a piece of software that integrates well with Salesforce or NetSuite or Microsoft Azure, Amazon(AWS), targeting with technographics is incredibly valuable and makes your message more relevant.

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Outbound Ideal Customer Profile NetSuite Microsoft 246

Hubspot Sales

MAY 30, 2023

Research (16%). This time is lost to internal meetings and emails, prospect research, manually writing cold emails, updating their CRM, and scheduling. Generative AI tools can take inputs from your CRM or their research tool and write a prospect email for you with parameters that you specify. Prospect outreach (16%).

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Lead Rank Hubspot Microsoft Lead Scoring 99

The Center for Sales Strategy

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Research from Microsoft and Gallup finds that some 41% of the global workforce, and nearly 50% of employees in the U.S., When you combine that with the flood of retiring Baby Boomers, we’re witnessing a seismic reshuffling of the work force. Even Santa Claus is in short supply. are actively looking for a new job.

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Microsoft Sales Cycle Follow-up Motivation 99

Nutshell

MAY 17, 2023

Nutshell also offers integrations for Microsoft Office 365 , Mailchimp , and many others your team may need. Zoho Zoho CRM is another Copper CRM alternative that provides G Suite integration as well as Microsoft Office 365 integration. Copper’s biggest limitation is its inflexibility outside of Google Workspace.

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Microsoft SalesForce CRM Hubspot 119

Smooth Sale

APRIL 4, 2024

The research is clear: Customers are more likely to support eco-friendly companies these days if they know that they are helping the planet and pushing for a better future for the world. As such, it is worth your time and effort to research how to use AI to strengthen your business model.

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Lead Rank Hiring Social Media Influencer 102

Allego

JULY 10, 2023

I fired up my MacBook, launched Google Search, and started researching my purchase. I researched models, features, prices, and dealerships. B2B buyers are 57% to 70% through their buying research before contacting a sales rep, according to Forrester. They perform as much research as they can before having to talk to a seller.

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B2B Microsoft Buyer SalesForce 62

Zoominfo

JUNE 10, 2022

Inside the ZoomInfo platform, we carefully curate actionable insights sourced through web crawlers, automated surveys, and our in-house research team. Put your money where your mouth is Microsoft has announced plans to increase employee salaries and benefits, including a 25% increase in the annual stock award ranges.

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Hiring Scale Advertising Advertising 130

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 5, 2018

At Allocadia, we work alongside some of the world’s most successful marketing teams from companies like Microsoft, Box and Palo Alto Networks. According to research from Gartner, marketing budgets are down for 2018 and so is spend on marketing technology. Reduced budgets will lead to tighter stacks. A new CMO ally will emerge: the CFO.

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Enterprise Enterprise Marketing Microsoft 214

SBI Growth

MARCH 23, 2018

Perhaps you are familiar with the photo of the former CEO of Nokia sobbing with his leadership team as his company was sold to Microsoft for parts. The now infamous headline: “we didn’t do anything wrong.” Well, yes Steve –.

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Microsoft Strategy Marketing Company 159

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 28, 2018

From casual browsing to thorough research, online exploration occurs well before customers meet a salesperson. Even in the B2B space, 74 percent of buyers report doing more than half of their research this way. Glenton Davis is a business strategist of the Global Partner Marketing Channel and Programs at Microsoft.

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Buyer Guidelines Insurance Insurance 209

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Here’s how to apply streaming intent data into your GTM strategy: Identify Potential Buyer Interest: Intent signals (provided in real-time, on time) allow you to identify which companies are researching your solution, as they do it. And they’ve been banned by Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla so far. . But What About Data Privacy?

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Intent Data Intent Data Intent Signal 244

Highspot

MAY 18, 2022

He offered me a research position while I studied for my GREs. Their expectations for me were only to become the person they always knew me to be: a confident student with worthy things to say, a talented researcher with great ideas, and a capable human being. I promised myself that I would own one stock in Microsoft before I died.

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Microsoft Study Engineering Margin 96

Pipeliner

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Surprisingly, today’s researchers have determined the major technological breakthroughs in this decade. Looking at the well-known Microsoft solutions, we can note that even fundamental functionality like role creation and security policy setup is lacking. How Virtual Data Room Works. Actually, there are quite a few options.

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Microsoft Comparison Policies Real Estate 92

Vainu

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Imagine if Microsoft Teams, Slack, or email would work like this: to read new messages, you first have to load all messages, and then, compare them to the previous batch of downloaded messages and figure out if there’s anything new. Wouldn’t make any sense, right? And yet, that’s what you often do to find out what changed in your CRM data.

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Microsoft Analysis CRM Call-back 87

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Microsoft turned to my company Alinean to calculate the value that its Green IT best practices could deliver for customers and present these finding in dynamic tools in a “GreenIT is good for the bottom line” campaign. One way to save money, and save the environment at the same time is implementing a Green IT strategy and savings programs.

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Microsoft Campaigns Research ROI 40

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Here’s how to apply streaming intent data into your GTM strategy: Identify Potential Buyer Interest: Intent signals (provided in real-time, on time) allow you to identify which companies are researching your solution, as they do it. And they’ve been banned by Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla so far. But What About Data Privacy?

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Intent Data Intent Data Intent Signal 230

Igniting Sales Transformation

MARCH 4, 2019

In this episode, Barb talks to Kristina McMillan , VP of Research at TOPO about why it is so important to FOCUS on the right activities if you want to achieve the right sales results. About Kristina: Kristina McMillan is the VP of Research at TOPO. This podcast is presented by our Elite Sponsor, Microsoft.

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Microsoft Lead Rank Oracle Conference 91

Appbuddy

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Their answers were reinforced by industry research showing U.S. Recent DMA research quantifies email’s ROI as an impressive 38:1. Consumer research reinforces this observation. Microsoft has already announced a new graphic design offering—Microsoft Designer—that harnesses this functionality.

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Paid Content Trends Microsoft Email Marketing 52

Igniting Sales Transformation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Learning/research is also a critical element to selling in that we should never go into a sales meeting or get on a sales call without having learned about them, their company, their industry, competitors, etc. I asked Mandy if she believes in the importance of research. This podcast is presented by our Elite Sponsor, Microsoft.

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Sales Leadership Microsoft Margin Face-to-face 86

Allego

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Coming off the heels of a record-breaking Q4 2022, Allego was named a Leader in Aragon Research’s analysis of the 15 major sales enablement platforms. The report, The Aragon Research Globe for Sales Enablement Platforms, 2023 , evaluates the top providers of software that “has become a de facto digital work hub for sales professionals.”

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Sales Enablement Microsoft Enterprise Enterprise 62

Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2022

They’re aggregated inside our platform from various sources including customer surveys, our in-house researchers, and web crawlers. This week’s list includes Wells Fargo, Oracle, Microsoft, and loanDepot. They cover everything from private company funding rounds, to layoff announcements to lawsuits.

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Oracle Microsoft Face-to-face Policies 100

Smooth Sale

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Furthermore, research shows that people are more likely to support companies that give back to the community. When a company makes donations or participates in charitable activities, it helps raise awareness about its product or service and strengthens consumer relationships. Your business can benefit from an increase in customer loyalty.

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Benefit Microsoft Hiring Loyalty 78

Zoominfo

JUNE 23, 2022

This information is sourced from our talented in-house research team, customer surveys, and web crawlers to make sure that we’re offering a broad range of news that you can use to own your market. Internet ex-Explorer After 27 years, Microsoft has retired Internet Explorer.

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Oracle Lead Rank Hiring Microsoft 100

Increase Sales

MAY 16, 2016

Well, there is research to confirm you just might be right. Microsoft conducted research about the attention span of people. From past research, Microsoft determined the attention span for people was 12 seconds. Did you wonder why during a sales conversation your sales lead appeared to be off in La La Land?

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Microsoft Lead Rank Lead Scoring Research 100

Allego

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Technology has evolved as a competitive weapon in sales,” said Jim Lundy, CEO and Lead Analyst at Aragon Research, during a recent webinar, How to Hit Your Team’s Numbers During Tough Economic Times. Microsoft Office and Google Suite are not sufficient for today’s sales teams. There’s one thing that can help you, though: technology.

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Sales Enablement Microsoft Coaching Webinar Metrics 118

SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

To assist you further, sign-up for SBI’s Sales & Marketing Research Review here. At no cost, an expert from SBI will present the full research findings. Greetings Mr. Smith, This is Joe Smith, an Account Manager of ACME company, an elite research and consulting think tank. Problem Examination. You can’t make this one up.

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Social Selling LinkedIn Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile 312

SBI

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Thompson, Venture Partner at Lightspeed, Seismic Board Member, and Chairman, Board of Directors, Microsoft. The Seismic Storytelling Platform TM integrates with business-critical platforms including Microsoft, Salesforce, Google and Adobe. Magazine’s Best Workplaces of 2020, among other company and workplace awards.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Company Microsoft 96

Adaptive Business Services

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Can you say Outlook and Microsoft Dynamics? We use social media strictly for research and discovering opportunities (connections) and then we manage those relationships, day-to-day in our CRM. Remember when you had the ability to tag, take notes, and set reminders for member profiles? Well, that did not last long. Surprise surprise.

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CRM Social Media Microsoft Ideal Customer Profile 77

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 9, 2023

Newly founded companies, however, will have to rely on other methods, such as market research or competitive analysis, to predict their future sales. However, Microsoft Excel is by far one of the easiest to learn. Microsoft Excel is an incredibly useful and flexible tool to track data sets. Sales Forecasting in Excel.

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Forecasting Sales Forecasts Analysis Microsoft 80

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

To coincide with the launch of Windows Azure Platform at Microsoft's PDC conference in Los Angeles, Alinean has been researching weather this new Cloud Computing platform from Microsoft can deliver tangible benefits and a solid return on investment (ROI).

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Microsoft Comparison ROI Conference 40

Julie Hanson

MARCH 21, 2023

In fact, recent research shows that trend continuing: Post-Covid, 72 percent of organizations expect to have fewer in-person meetings. According to Microsoft , 82 percent of managers expect more flexible and home working. Although in-person meetings are back in the mix, many people are continuing to work and communicate remotely.

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Microsoft Comparison Trends Video 62

Igniting Sales Transformation

MAY 2, 2018

The book is co-authored by Tamara Schenk, Research Director at CSO Insights and Byron Matthews, President and CEO of Miller Heiman Group. This podcast is presented by our Elite Sponsor, Microsoft. Gavriella and Microsoft are committed to giving “young women better role models and a stronger voice to all women.”

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Groups Trends Microsoft Infusion 77

Igniting Sales Transformation

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Alice and her team helps SMB companies drive sales growth by incorporating the newest research and the best practices to enable CEOs, business owners and sales leaders to bring about sustainable change that leads to growth. This podcast is presented by our Elite Sponsor, Microsoft. Thanks to our Sponsors!

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Microsoft Lead Rank Twitter Google 61

Pipeliner

JANUARY 6, 2022

Jay is the principal analyst for global channels, partnerships, and ecosystems at Forrester – one of the most influential global research and advisory firms in the world. For instance, Microsoft sales have always been more than 90% through the channel. In addition to being a SalesPOP! Then, we’re seeing the end of the cookie.

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Channels Trends AutoTask Lead Rank 98